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ItemThe Yellow River in transition(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2008-08)
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ItemThe Shenyang-Dalian mega-urban region in transition(LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS, 2008)
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ItemResilience and ‘Climatizing’ Development: Examples and policy implications(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2008-09)
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ItemClimate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2009-02)
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ItemMigration, modernisation and ethnie estrangement: Uyghur migration to urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, PRC(Brill, 2009-01-01)Abstract In the People's Republic of China, minority nationality peoples have the same formal rights as Han Chinese. However, in Xinjiang, the modernisation project is taking precedence over ethnic harmony as recruitment practices are increasingly disadvantaging the Uyghurs, despite earlier affirmative action policies. Ethnographic and survey research among Urumqi's floating population indicates that Uyghurs are excluded from certain sectors, earn lower incomes and reside in poorer accommodation than Han Chinese, from whom they remain spatially and socially segregated. As the state increasingly relies on the invisible hand of the market, so the commodification of labour relations and property is amplifying social rifts between nationalities. Uneven regional development prompts Han people to migrate into Xinjiang and Uyghurs to migrate to the cities within Xinjiang, bringing these two ethnic groups into competition within a labour market. This has resulted in an ethnic division of labour that exacerbates inter- and intra-ethnic tensions.
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ItemAn iconic approach for representing climate change(ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2009-10)
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ItemDutiful tourism: Encountering the Cambodian genocide(BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2008-12)Abstract This paper considers contemporary international tourism to a genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It argues that existing theorisations of ‘dark tourism’ are inadequate for the task of understanding the motivations, actions and experiences of visitors in such a place, or of such sites as contested international institutions. The paper is concerned with the ways in which visiting practices encouraged at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes in the immediate post‐genocide period (the 1980s) continue to affect visiting practices in the present. Moreover, the absence of familiar curatorial practices and technologies of interpretation leads contemporary visitors to conceive of the space of the museum and their visit in unexpected ways. The dutiful comportment of visitors at Tuol Sleng both supports and challenges the moral geographies enacted by contemporary travel.
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ItemThe hazards of indicators: Insights from the environmental vulnerability index(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008-03)
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ItemGeopolitics and ‘the vision thing’: regarding Britain and America's first nuclear missile(Wiley, 2006-03)Critical geopolitics, despite its radical ambitions, has been reluctant to shift its emphasis from the figure of the geopolitical tactician, ‘decisive’ events and the agency of the military‐state. This paper, in common with recent work on ‘popular geopolitics’, offers a different agenda. It takes up the story of Britain and America's first nuclear missile – the US‐made ‘Corporal’– through the testimony of a self‐described ‘space‐daft’ schoolboy who, in 1959, travelled alone across Scotland to witness the first British testing of the missile. However, unlike much of the literature on popular geopolitics, this paper is concerned with the more‐than‐representational question of observant practice. Addressing recent calls for a more empirical enquiry into the relationship between geography and visual culture, the paper examines how geopolitical power operates through sights and spectacles.
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ItemThe Places of Primitive Accumulation in Rural China(TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008-10)abstract “Rural” is a category of enduring significance in China. The trajectories of social change in China's rural areas reflect local dynamics and new forms of economy that encroach from local or distant cities and international sources. One indicator of change is the separation of people from their means of production: the development of the preconditions for capitalist production. Using information from villages scattered across China, this article identifies the sources of this separation and poses a theoretical question: can these changes be comprehended in a nondeterministic manner? The article demonstrates that the principal means of separating rural people from their means of production have been market based and largely local (reflecting forces within China), supplemented, however, by forcible dispossession. It also shows that the processes that drive primitive accumulation do not simply reflect an economic logic; they include environmental modernization, ethnic politics, nation building, and personal motives. The extraeconomic bases of economic change imply that primitive accumulation is not a process on a path to a known end point or to a predictable geography.