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Southeast Asian Security in the New Millennium (A\study Of The National Bureau Of Asian Research Ser.)
by Sheldon W. Simon Richard J. EllingsAssessing trends toward creating innovative forms of political, economic and security co-operation in Southeast Asia, this text discusses the international dynamics of Southeast Asian security, and its impact on such external factors as the US, China and Japan.
Southeast Asia's Credit Revolution: From Moneylenders to Microfinance (Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia)
by David Henley Aditya GoenkaSoutheast Asia’s Credit Revolution describes and explains the rise of microfinance – the provision of credit and other financial services for the poor – in Southeast Asia, over the past four decades the most consistently successful region of the developing world. In recent years microfinance has come to be seen as a key weapon in the battle against global poverty, generating more enthusiasm and optimism than any other development strategy. Southeast Asia has a special place in the history of microfinance. Historically, Southeast Asian societies and economies were perceived as almost uniquely debt-ridden and credit-constrained. In the twentieth century, however, the region was in the forefront of the modern microfinance revolution. This book asks what factors have made it possible for formal microfinance institutions to replace moneylenders and other traditional credit providers. Bringing together economists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians, the book covers seven Southeast Asian countries. The topic is explored from cultural and institutional as well as economic perspectives, and policy-relevant lessons are offered for the design of successful microfinance institutions. Focusing on recent developments while putting them in historical context, this will be an important text for scholars and students of economic history, finance, institutional economics, and Asian Studies.
Southeast Asia's Misunderstood Miracle: Industrial Policy And Economic Development In Thailand, Malaysia And Indonesia
by Jomo K.S."The debate on the major factors contributing to Southeast Asian industrialization continues unabated. As might be expected, there is much at stake in this debate. The debate is largely ideological in nature and partly centers on the role and contribution of state interventions and other institutions in market processes in the context of late industrialization. At the risk of caricaturing the debate, on the one hand, one finds the dominant and more influential position held by those who blame the state for all that has gone wrong and credit the market for all that has turned out right; on the other hand, the minority statist extreme position basically credits most major economic achievements in East Asia to appropriate interventions by developmentalist states. While very few people would actually fully identify with either of these caricatured extremes, much of the discussion actually gravitates around either of these poles. "
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 51, #1 (Spring #2011)
by Robert Brinkmann Graham A. TobinTable of Contents, Volume 51, Number 1:<P><P> Introduction: Robert Brinkmann and Graham Tobin<P><P> Economic Geography in the South<P> Guest Editor: James O. Wheeler<P><P> Introduction: Economic Geography in the South<P> James O. Wheeler<P><P> The Furniture Foothills and the Spatial Fix: Globalization in the Furniture Industry<P> Susan M. Walcott<P><P> Mapping NASCAR Valley: Charlotte as a Knowledge Community<P> Ron L. Mitchelson and Derek H. Alderman<P><P> The Southern Culture of Risk Capital: The Path Dependence of Entrepreneurial Finance<P> William Graves<P><P> Renewable Energy in North Carolina: The Potential Supply Chain and Connections to Existing Renewable and Energy Efficiency Firms<P> Keith G. Debbage and Jacob F. Kidd<P><P> African American and Hispanic Self-Employment in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area<P> Qingfang Wang<P><P> Papers<P><P> Hurricane Katrina as a Lens for Assessing Socio-Spatial Change in New Orleans <P> Case Watkins and Ronald R. Hagelman, III<P><P> Drought and Other Driving Forces behind Population Change in Six Rural Counties in the United States<P> Justin T. Maxwell and Peter T. Soule<P><P> Mapping Existing and Potential River Cane (Arundinaria gigantea) Habitat in Western North Carolina<P> Joni L. Bugden, Christopher D. Storie, Carey L. Burda<P><P> Under-Tapped? An Analysis of Craft Brewing in the Southern United States <P> James Baginski and Thomas L. Bell<P><P> Citizenship Contested: The 1930s Domestic Migrant Experience in California's San Joaquin Valley <P> Toni Alexander<P><P> Book Reviews: Perspectives on Carbon Trade<P> Reviewed by Mary Finley-Brook<P><P> Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide <P> Arnaud Brohe, Nick Eyre, and Nicholas Howarth<P><P> Carbon Trading: How It Works and Why It Fails <P> Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 51, #3 (Fall #2011)
by Robert Brinkmann Graham A. TobinTable of Contents for Fall 2011:<P><P> Assessing Spatial Hydrological Data Integration to Characterize Geographic Trends in Small Reservoirs in the Apalachicola- Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin<P> Amber Ignatius and Jon Anthony Stallins<P><P> Spatial Patterns of Ecological Integrity in South Carolina Watersheds<P> John A. Kupfer and Peng Gao<P><P> The 2007 Mid-South Summer Drought and Heat Wave in Historical Perspective<P> Gregory B. Goodrich, J. Kyle Thompson, Stanley D. Wingard, and Kylie J. Batson<P><P> City Limits? The Impact of Annexation on the Frequency of Municipal Incorporation in North Carolina<P> Russell M. Smith<P><P> GIS Educational Opportunities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the United States<P> Rakesh Malhotra and Gordana Vlahovic <P><P> A Geography of Appalachian Identity<P> Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts, and Katy L. Elders<P><P> Geographic Note<P> Posted Redux: Campaign Signs, Race, and Political Participation in Mississippi, 2008<P> J.O. Joby Bass<P><P> Book Reviews<P> ----------------------------------<P> Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that reflect sound scholarship and contain significant contributions to geographical understanding, with a special interest in work that focuses on the southeastern United States.
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 51, #4 (Winter #2011)
by Robert Brinkmann Graham A. TobinTable of Contents for Volume 51, Number 4 (Winter 2011)<P><P> Introduction: With Thanks <P> Graham A. Tobin and Robert Brinkmann<P><P> Innovations in Southern Studies within Geography <P> Derek H. Alderman and William Graves<P><P> The Bible Belt in a Changing South: Shrinking, Relocating, and Multiple Buckles <P> Stanley D. Brunn, Gerald R. Webster, and J. Clark Archer<P><P> Emerging Patterns of Growth and Change in the Southeast <P> Benjamin J. Shultz<P><P> Geographies of Race in the American South: The Continuing Legacies of Jim Crow Segregation <P> Joshua F. J. Inwood<P><P> Jim Crow, Civil Defense, and the Hydrogen Bomb: Race, Evacuation Planning, and the Geopolitics of Fear in 1950s Savannah, Georgia <P> Jonathan Leib and Thomas Chapman<P><P> Representing the Immigrant: Social Movements, Political Discourse, and Immigration in the U.S. South <P> Jamie Winders<P><P> Water, Water, Everywhere? Toward a Critical Water Geography of the South <P> Christopher F. Meindl<P><P> The Politics of Mobility in the South: A Commentary on Sprawl,Automobility, and the Gulf Oil Spill <P> Jason Henderson<P><P> Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that reflect sound scholarship and contain significant contributions to geographical understanding, with a special interest in work that focuses on the southeastern United States.
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 52, #1 (Spring #2012)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranTable of Contents for Volume 52, Number 1 (Spring 2012)<P><P> Cover Art<P> A Section of the Kansas City Southern in Hattiesburg, Mississippi<P> David M. Cochran, Jr.<P><P> Introduction<P> David M. Cochran, Jr. and Carl A. Reese<P><P> Part I: Papers<P><P> Spatial and Temporal Variations in West Virginia's Precipitation, 1931–2000<P> James Leonard and Kevin Law<P><P> The Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Individual Fishing Quota Program in Florida: Perceptions and Implications<P> Kamal Alsharif and Nathan Miller<P><P> Reflections in the Water: Society and Recreational Facilities, a Case Study of Public Swimming Pools in Mississippi<P> P. Caleb Smith<P><P> Local Food Initiatives in Tobacco Transitions of the Southeastern United States<P> Richard A. Russo<P><P> A GIS-Based Football Stadium Evacuation Model<P> Joslyn J. Zale and Bandana Kar<P><P> Part II: Geographical Notes<P><P> The Origin and Appreciation of Savannah, Georgia's Historic City Squares<P> Louis De Vorsey<P><P> Part III: Reviews<P><P> Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin, A Collection of Words<P> William A. Read, edited by George M. Riser<P> Reviewed by Andy Hilburn<P><P> The SAGE Handbook of Geographical Knowledge<P> Edited by John Agnew and David N. Livingstone<P> Reviewed by J. O. Joby Bass
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 52, #2 (Summer #2012)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranTable of Contents for Volume 52, Number 2 (Summer 2012)<P><P> Cover Art: Southern Maryland Tobacco Barn <P> Richard A. Russo<P><P> Introduction <P> David M. Cochran, Jr. and Carl A. Reese<P><P> Part I: Papers<P><P> ''Where Can I Build My Student Housing?'': The Politics of Studentification in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia <P> Graham Pickren<P><P> The Making of the Piano Bar: Landscape, Art, and Discourse in Biscayne Bay <P> Robert J. Kruse, II<P><P> An Analysis of Differential Migration Patterns in the Black Belt and the New South <P> Shrinidhi Ambinakudige, Domenico Parisi, and Steven M. Grice<P><P> An Examination of Municipal Annexation Methods in North Carolina, 1990-2009<P> Russell M. Smith<P><P> The 16 April 2011 EF3 Tornado in Greene County, Eastern North Carolina<P> Thomas M. Rickenbach<P><P> Transforming Mount Airy into Mayberry: Film-Induced Tourism as Place-Making<P> Derek H. Alderman, Stefanie K. Benjamin, and Paige P. Schneider<P><P> Part II: Reviews<P><P> Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne<P><P> Reviewed by Scott Brady<P><P> The Battle for North Carolina's Coast: Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future by Stanley R. Riggs, Dorothea V. Ames, Stephen J. Culver, and David J. Mallinson<P> Reviewed by Douglas W. Gamble
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 52, #3 (Fall #2012)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranTable of Contents for Volume 52, Number 3 (Fall 2012)<P><P> Cover Art<P> Co-producing Space Along the Sweetgrass Basket Makers' Highway in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina <P> Brian Grabbatin<P><P> Introduction <P> David M. Cochran, Jr. and Carl A. Reese<P><P> Part I: Papers<P><P> Pet Ownership and the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Evacuation Decisions <P> Courtney N. Thompson, David M. Brommer, and Kathleen Sherman-Morris<P><P> Salinity Assessment in Northeast Florida Bay Using Landsat TM Data <P> Caiyun Zhang, Zhixiao Xie, Charles Roberts, Leonard Berry, and Ge Chen<P><P> An Assessment of Human Vulnerability to Hazards in the US Coastal Northeast and mid-Atlantic <P> Shivangi Prasad<P><P> Black, White or Green?: The Confederate Battle Emblem and the 2001 Mississippi State Flag Referendum <P> Jonathan I. Leib and Gerald R. Webster<P><P> The Role of Landscape in the Distribution of Deer-Vehicle Collisions in South Mississippi <P> Jacob J. McKee and David M. Cochran, Jr.<P><P> Part II: Geographical Notes<P><P> Dr. John J. Winberry, Jr. (1945–2012) <P> Gregory J. Carbone<P> Part III: Reviews<P><P> Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields <P> Rebecca R. Scott<P> Reviewed by Sarah A. Watson<P><P> Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age <P> Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, eds.<P> Reviewed by Brian K. Blickenstaff
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 52, #4 (Winter #2012)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranTable of Contents for Volume 52, Number 4 (Winter 2012)<P><P> Special Issue: Placing Memory and Heritage in the Geography Classroom<P> Guest Editor: Chris W. Post<P><P> Cover Art<P> The Mule Pull at the Mississippi Pecan Festival <P> Joseph S. Miller<P><P> Introduction: Placing Memory and Heritage in the Geography Classroom <P> Chris W. Post<P><P> Part I: Papers<P><P> ''History by the Spoonful'' in North Carolina: The Textual Politics of State Highway Historical Markers <P> Derek H. Alderman<P><P> Remembrance and Place-Making: Teaching Students to Look Ahead While Looking Back <P> Stephen S. Birdsall<P><P> Editing Memory and Automobility & Race: Two Learning Activities on Contested Heritage and Place <P> Kenneth E. Foote <P><P> A Tale of Two Civil War Statues: Teaching the Geographies of Memory and Heritage in Norfolk, Virginia <P> Jonathan I. Leib<P><P> Objectives and Prospects for Bringing Service-Learning into the Memory and Heritage Classroom <P> Chris W. Post<P><P> Making Memory, Making Landscapes: Classroom Applications of Parallel Trends in the Study of Landscape, Memory, and Learning <P> Owen J. Dwyer and Matthew McCourt<P><P> Part II: Geographical Notes<P><P> A Tribute to Dr. Louis De Vorsey, Jr. (1929–2012) <P> Sanford H. Bederman<P> Part III: Reviews<P><P> From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715 <P> Robbie Ethridge<P> Reviewed by Craig S. Revels<P><P> Key Methods in Geography <P> Nicholas Clifford, Shaun French, and Gill Valentine (Editors)<P> Reviewed by Bandana Kar
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, #1 (Spring #2013)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranTable of Contents for Volume 53, Number 1 (Spring 2013)<P><P> Cover Art<P> Tropical Tree Rings and Environmental Change <P> Grant L. Harley<P><P> Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, Number 1<P> Carl A. Reese and David M. Cochran<P><P> Part I: Papers<P><P> Gasoline Station Morphology on Virginia's Eastern Shore<P> Bradley D. Macpherson and Mark de Socio<P><P> Six Decades (1948–2007) of Landscape Change in the Dougherty Plain of Southwest Georgia, USA <P> Glenn I. Martin, Jeffrey Hepinstall-Cymerman, and L.Katherine Kirkman<P><P> Solar Cycle Extremes as a Seasonal Predictor of Atlantic-Basic Tropical Cyclones <P> Brian T. Hutton, Jr., Kelsey N. Scheitlin, and P. Grady Dixon<P><P> Impact of Prescribed Burns on Marsh Surface Elevation: Big Branch Marsh, Louisiana <P> Christopher M. Henton, Carl A. ''Andy'' Reese, Franklin T. Heitmuller,and John Andrew S. Fleming <P><P> Assessing Potential Urban Tree Planting Sites in the Piedmont of the United States: A Comparison of Methods <P> Krista Merry, Jacek Siry, Pete Bettinger, and J. M. Bowker<P><P> Making Sense of the Strip: The Postmodern Pastiche of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee <P> Ann Fletchall<P><P> Part II: Reviews<P><P> The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal <P> Julie Greene<P> Reviewed by Ashley D. Carse <P><P> Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability <P> David Owen<P> Reviewed by Matthew Fry
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, #2 (Summer #2013)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranTable of Contents for Volume 53, Number 2 (Summer 2013) Cover Art Sleeping Kudzu J. O. Joby Bass Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, Number 2 <P><P> David M. Cochran and Carl A. Reese<P><P> Part I: Papers<P><P> Recovering Destination from Devastation: Tourism, Image, and Economy Along the Hurricane Coasts<P> Ronald L. Schumann, III<P><P> Foreign-born Latino Labor Market Concentration in Six Metropolitan Areas in the U.S. South <P> Sara Gleave and Qingfang Wang<P><P> Downstream Trends in Grain Size, Angularity, and Sorting of Channel-Bed and Bank Deposits in a Coastal Plain Sand-Bed River: the Pascagoula River System, Mississippi, USA <P> Zachary A. Musselman and Allison M. Tarbox<P><P> Displacement and the Racial State in Olympic Atlanta, 1990–1996 <P> Seth Gustafson<P><P> Pentagon Contracts and Dixie <P> Barney Warf<P><P> Part II: Reviews<P><P> Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades <P> Laura A. Ogden<P> Reviewed by Scott H. Markwith<P><P> Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi <P> Timothy R. Pauketat<P> Reviewed by William I. Woods
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, #3 (Fall #2013)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranTable of Contents for Volume 53, Number 3 (Fall 2013)<P><P> COVER ART<P> The View from Huayna Picchu <P> Carl A. Reese <P><P> Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, Number 3 <P> David M. Cochran and Carl A. Reese <P><P> PART I: PAPERS <P><P> High Temporal Resolution Land Use/ Land Cover Change from 1984 to 2010 of the Little River Watershed, Tennessee, Investigated Using Landsat and Google Earth Images <P> Chunhao Zhu and Yingkui Li <P><P> Look Away, Look Away, Look Away to Lexington: Struggles over Neo-Confederate Nationalism, Memory, and Masculinity in a Small Virginia Town <P> Jon D. Bohland <P><P> Web-Based Geospatial Technology Tools for Metropolitan Planning Organizations <P> Rakesh Malhotra, Gurmeet Virk, Felix Nwoko, and Amanda Klepper <P><P> Spatial and Temporal Patterns of an Ethnic Economy in a Suburban Landscape of the Nuevo South <P> Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, Vanessa Slinger-Friedman, Harold R. Trendell, and Mark W. Patterson <P><P> Toward a Publicly Engaged Geography: Polycentric and Iterated Research <P> Jennifer F. Brewer<P><P> PART II: REVIEWS <P><P> Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest <P> Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, and John C. Hall <P> Reviewed by Grant L. Harley<P><P> The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South <P> Andrew W. Kahrl <P> Reviewed by Heather Ward
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, #4 (Winter #2013)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranSoutheastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that reflect sound scholarship and contain significant contributions to geographical understanding, with a special interest in work that focuses on the southeastern United States.
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, #1 (Spring #2014)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranSoutheastern Geographer<P> VOLUME 54, NUMBER 1 : SPRING 2014<P><P> Table of Contents<P><P> Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, Number 1<P> David M. Cochran and Carl A. Reese<P> Part I: Papers<P><P> The Great Lakes-to-Florida Highway: A Politics of Road Space in 1920s West Virginia and Virginia <P> Jessey Gilley<P><P> Do Incentives Work? An Analysis of Residential Solar Energy Adoption in Miami-Dade County, Florida<P> Jeffery Onsted and Aileen Varela-Margolles<P><P> Disaster Vulnerability of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: A Comparison of Texas and North Carolina <P> Christine E. Gares and Burrell E. Montz<P><P> Louisiana: Apprehending a Complex Web of Vernacular Regional Geography <P> John McEwen<P><P> Spatial Trends and Factors Associated with Hardwood Mortality in the Southeastern United States<P> Michael Crosby, Zhaofei Fan, Theodor D. Leninger, Martin A. Spetich and A. Brady Self<P><P> Part II: Reviews<P><P> The Geography of Wine: How Landscapes, Cultures, Terror, and the Weather Make a Good Drop<P> Brian J. Sommers<P> Reviewed by David M. Cochran, Jr.<P><P> Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878<P> Emily Satterwhite<P> Reviewed by Taulby H. Edmondson<P><P> Trash Animals: How We Live with Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species <P> Kelsi Nagy and David Johnson II<P> Reviewed by Matthew L. Fahrenbruch<P><P> Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that reflect sound scholarship and contain significant contributions to geographical understanding, with a special interest in work that focuses on the southeastern United States.
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, #2 (Summer #2014)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranSoutheastern Geographer <P> VOLUME 54, NUMBER 2 : SUMMER 2014 <P> Table of Contents <P><P> Cover Art The Buddha Abides in Mississippi Mark M. Miller <P> Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, Number 2 Carl A. Reese and David M. Cochran <P><P> Part I: Papers <P><P> The Geography of Non-Earned Income in the Piedmont Megapolitan Cluster Keith G. Debbage, Bradley Bereitschaft, and Edward Beaver <P><P> Challenges and Opportunities for Southeast Agriculture in a Changing Climate: Perspectives from State Climatologists Pam Knox, Chris Fuhrmann, and Chip Konrad<P><P> Peoples' Perceptions of Housing Market Elements in Knoxville, Tennessee Madhuri Sharma <P><P> Structure and Dynamics of an Old-Growth Pine-Oak Community in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Georgia, U.S.A. Christopher A. Petruccelli, John Sakulich, Grant L. Harley, and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer <P><P> "A Tale of Mice and Men": The WPA, the LSU Indian Room Museum, and the Emergence of Professional Archaeology in the U.S. South Amy E. Potter, Dydia DeLyser, and Rebecca Saunders <P><P> Part II: Reviews <P><P> Drive: A Road Trip Through our Complicated Affair with the Automobile Tim Falconer Reviewed by Dawn M. Drake <P><P> Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science Rebecca Lave Reviewed by Eric Nost <P><P> Southeastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that reflect sound scholarship and contain significant contributions to geographical understanding, with a special interest in work that focuses on the southeastern United States.
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, #3 (Fall #2014)
by Carl A. Reese David M. CochranSoutheastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that reflect sound scholarship and contain significant contributions to geographical understanding, with a special interest in work that focuses on the southeastern United States.
Southeastern Geographer, Volume 54, #4 (Winter #2014)
by David M. Cochran Carl A. ReeseSoutheastern Geographer is published by UNC Press for the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (www.sedaag.org). The quarterly journal publishes the academic work of geographers and other social and physical scientists, and features peer-reviewed articles and essays that reflect sound scholarship and contain significant contributions to geographical understanding, with a special interest in work that focuses on the southeastern United States.
Southeastern Mesoamerica: Indigenous Interaction, Resilience, and Change
by Whitney A. Goodwin Erlend Johnson Alejandro J. FigueroaSoutheastern Mesoamerica highlights the diversity and dynamism of the Indigenous groups that inhabited and continue to inhabit the borders of Southeastern Mesoamerica, an area that includes parts of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Chapters combine archaeological, ethnohistoric, and historic data and approaches to better understand the long-term sociopolitical and cultural changes that occurred throughout the entirety of human occupation of this area. Drawing on archaeological evidence ranging back to the late Pleistocene as well as extensive documentation from the historic period, contributors show how Southeastern Mesoamericans created unique identities, strategically incorporating cosmopolitan influences from cultures to the north and south with their own long-lived traditions. These populations developed autochthonous forms of monumental architecture and routes and methods of exchange and had distinct social, cultural, political, and economic traits. They also established unique long-term human-environment relations that were the result of internal creativity and inspiration influenced by local social and natural trajectories. Southeastern Mesoamerica calls upon archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnohistorians, and others working in Mesoamerica, Central America, and other cultural boundaries around the world to reexamine the role Indigenous resilience and agency play in these areas and in the cultural developments and interactions that occur within them. Contributors: Edy Barrios, Christopher Begley, Walter Burgos, Mauricio Díaz García, William R. Fowler, Rosemary A. Joyce, Gloria Lara-Pinto, Eva L. Martínez, William J. McFarlane, Cameron L. McNeil, Lorena D. Mihok, Pastor Rodolfo Gómez Zúñiga, Timothy Scheffler, Edward Schortman, Russell Sheptak, Miranda Suri, Patricia Urban, Antolín Velásquez, E. Christian Wells
Southern Africa Since The Portuguese Coup
by John SeilerFirst published in 1980. Toward the end of 1975 the author decided to edit a collection of essays on political developments in Southern Africa. Regional events since the Portuguese coup in April 1974 had already made an enormous impact, first suggesting the possibilities of peaceful accommodation between South Africa and its neighbors, but then demonstrating the destructive impact in Angola of widespread international intervention (in the latter half of 1975). From 1975 to the present, events in Southern Africa have neared center stage in international attention, but, as these essays will show, outstanding regional differences are no closer to peaceful resolution in late 1979 than they were in early 1976.
The Southern African Development Community and Law
by Mkhululi NyathiThis book analyses whether the design of the institutions of Southern African Development Community (SADC) reflects the community’s treaty objectives and principles of democracy and the rule of law. The author provides a detailed analysis of the policy making and oversight institutions of SADC. Additionally, the project looks at institutional and legal frameworks of similar organisations (the East African Community, the Economic Community of West African States and the European Union) for comparative purposes. This work is written largely from a legal perspective, specifically international institutional law; however, it carries cross-disciplinary themes, including governance, and especially the subject of public policy making at the international level.
Southern African Development Community Land Issues: Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy
by Ben ChigaraThis book constitutes volume one of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. In this volume, Ben Chigara undertakes a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It particularly focuses on intensifying litigation in national courts, the SADC Tribunal, and more recently the Washington based International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) regarding counter claims to title to property. The book examines cultural, economic and political drivers at the core of SADC land issues, focusing on their significance and potential to contribute to the discovery of a new, sustainable land relations policy that guarantees social justice in the distribution of all the advantages and disadvantages relating to the allocation and use of land. Chigara shows that persistent systematic administrative failures by pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial authorities have made for a very complex challenge that requires Solomonic tools that neither the Courts alone, nor human rights centric morality alone could resolutely attend. The book recommends a sophisticated systematic new approach to SADC land issues, which is developed in volume two, Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of Property and Conveyancing Law, Human Rights Law and Land Law.
Southern African Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism Management: Tourism and Changing Localities (Geographies of Tourism and Global Change)
by Jarkko Saarinen Berendien Lubbe Naomi N. MosweteThis edited collection focuses on tourism development, sustainability and local change in southern Africa. The book offers a range of both conceptual and applied perspectives that address various changes in southern African tourism and community development relations. The key drivers of change that include climate change and globalization form the context for the diverse and interesting set of case studies from the region. The main conceptual grounds of the book cover sustainability, sustainable development goals (SDGs), responsibility, vulnerability, adaptation, resilience, governance, local development and inclusive growth. In this book sustainability is seen as one of the most important issues currently facing the tourism sector, affecting all types and scales of tourism operations and environments in the region. Tourism is an increasingly important economy in the southern African region and the industry is creating changes for communities and environment while also facing major challenges caused by global trends and changes. The book offers a case study driven approach to sustainability needs of tourism development in local community contexts. The case study chapters are linked through the book’s focus on sustainable tourism and local community development. Through emphasizing the need to understand both global change and local contexts in sustainable tourism development, this book is a valuable resource for all those working in the field.
Southern Africa's Blue Economy: Regional Cooperation for Sustained Development (Europa Introduction to...)
by Donald L. SparksSouthern Africa’s maritime interests are considerable: its oceans and ports are essential to the wealth of the region, are crucial for trade and are an important source of employment, food and energy. However, regional governments do not place sufficient attention on the Blue Economy and its potential to stimulate economic growth. Of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, goal Number 14 (Life Below Water) is the least funded. Less than 1% of Official Development Assistance goes toward this goal, and even private investment and funding from philanthropic organizations is grossly inadequate to meet Africa’s blue economy needs. It is vital for the international community to face up to the challenges of Africa’s Blue Economy and start working on solutions and for southern Africa’s Blue Economy policies and goals to be expanded. Just as sustainable development green initiatives show promise, so too could Blue Economy projects and activities. Southern Africa’s rich coastal and marine resources need to be managed on both a national and regional level if they are to be used in a long-term, sustainable way. This book provides, for the first time, a concise study of the constraints and opportunities that the Blue Economy offers for southern Africa and the role that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) could play in fostering a sustainable use of its ocean and coastal resources.
Southern and Postcolonial Perspectives on Policing, Security and Social Order
by Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, Peter Squires and Zoha WaseemPostcolonial legacies continue to impact upon the Global South and this edited collection examines their influence on systems of policing, security management and social ordering. Expanding the Southern Criminology agenda, the book critically examines social harms, violence and war crimes, human rights abuses, environmental degradation and the criminalization of protest. The book asks how current states of policing came about, their consequences and whose interests they continue to serve through vivid international case studies, including prison struggles in Latin America and the misuse of military force. Challenging current criminological thinking on the Global South, the book considers how police and state overreach can undermine security and perpetuate racism and social conflict.