Becoming a ‘Cultural Destination of Choice’: lessons on vernacularization from Beirut and Buenos Aires

ABSTRACT

This article builds upon the concept of vernacularization as a way to better understand the circulation and implementation of global policy assemblages. The added value of a vernacularization approach is that it combines under one analytical umbrella the separate but interdependent factors which affect policy travel and use including: (a) positionality or the social and spatial status of actors, institutions and localities, (b) processes of communication that go beyond translation to make ideas and practices understandable, resonant, and useful, (c) the resulting vernacularization of aspirations and goals, and (d) the ways in which these factors change over time as policies come to ground, are modified, and circulate once again. Each aspect of vernacularization relies deeply on meaning making and remaking, whether it be the identity of the vernacularizer herself or of the institutions and cities where she is located.     

Spray Foam: a New Bone Encasement Technique

Abstract

A new method of encasing broken bone materials is tested on human skeletal material from a wet cave in sw Texas.     

Education as a cultural process

John Collier, Jr. Alaskan Eskimo Education: A Film Analysis of Cultural Confrontation in the Schools. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. v + 130 pp. Illustrations, index and bibliography. $2.75 (paper).

Nancy Modiano. Indian Education in the Chiapas Highlands. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. 128 pp. Illustrations and index. $2.75 (paper).

Harry F. Wolcott. The Man in the Principal's Office: An Ethnography. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. vii + 334 pp. Tables, charts and references. $4.95 (paper).     

Hermoupolis: the archaeology of a Mediterranean industrial city

Abstract

Hermoupolis, on the island of Syros, developed in the nineteenth century as the first industrial city in Greece. Its historical monuments are of more than national importance, providing evidence which does not survive elsewhere of particular processes, and forming a landscape which illuminates the whole history of industrialisation.     

Charting a Course between Realpolitik and Ideology: A Foreign Policy to Sustain the Democratic Community

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Scalia, Antonin; ed. Amy Gutmann. A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 159 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0-691-02630-0 Publication Date: 1997

UNITED STATES. Politics and Public Policy, White, John Kenneth. Still Seeing Red: How the Cold War Shapes the New American Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview. 386 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8133-1888-2 Publication Date: September 1997

Singh, Robert. The Farrakhan Phenomenon: Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 340 pp., $60.00 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-657-3 cloth ISBN 0-87840-658-1 paper Publication Date: September 1997

Fried, Amy. Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion. New York: Columbia University Press. 308 pp., $49.50 cloth, $19.50 paper ISBN 0-231-10820-6 cloth ISBN 0-231-10821-4 paper Publication Date: September 1997

Stone, Alan. How America Got On-Line: Politics, Markets, and the Revolution in Telecommunications. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 241 pp., $62.95, $23.95 paper ISBN 1-56324-576-0 cloth ISBN 1-56324-577-9 paper Publication Date: July 1997

Worsham, Jeffrey. Other People's Money: Policy Change, Congress, and Bank Regulation. Boulder, CO: Westview. 164 pp., $55.00 cloth, $21.50 paper ISBN 0-8133-9953-X cloth ISBN 0-8133-9952-1 paper Publication Date: September 1997

Rubin, Barry R. A Citizen's Guide to Politics in America: How the System Works and How to Work the System. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 288 pp., $34.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-7656-0028-5 cloth ISBN 0-7656-0029-3 paper Publication Date: March 1997

Gordon, Ann D., and Bettye Collier-Thomas, eds. African American Women and the Vote, 1837–1965. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. 217 pp., $45.00 cloth, $15.95 paper ISBN 1-55849-058-2 cloth ISBN 1-55849-059-0 paper Publication Date: 1997

Lublin, David. The Paradox of Representation: Racial Gerrymandering and Minority Interests in Congress. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 174 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-691-02669-6 Publication Date: July 1997

Evans, Gary R. Red Ink: The Budget, Deficit, and Debt of the U.S. Government. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. 297 pp., ISBN 0-12-244079-X cloth ISBN 0-12-244080-3 paper Publication Date: 1997

Croucher, Sheila L. Imagining Miami: Ethnic Politics in a Postmodern World. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. 235 pp., $45.00 cloth, $15.00 paper ISBN 0-8139-1704-2 cloth ISBN 0-8139-1705-0 paper Publication Date: April 1997

Bridges, Amy. Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 244 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-691-02780-3 Publication Date: June 1997

Katzmann, Robert A. Courts and Congress. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. 163 pp., $38.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-4866-3 cloth ISBN 0-8157-4865-5 paper Publication Date: April 1997

Johnson, Herbert A. The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801-1835. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 317 pp., $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-121-5 Publication Date: March 1997

Sarnoff, Susan Kiss. Paying for Crime: The Policies and Possibilities of Crime Victim Reimbursement. Westport, CT: Praeger. 115 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-275-95709-8 Publication Date: 1996

Goldwin, Robert A. From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constitution. Washington, DC: AEI Press. 213 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-8447-4012-8 Publication Date: May 1997

O'Cleireacain, Carol. The Orphaned Capital: Adopting the Right Revenues for the District of Columbia. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. 214 pp., $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-6425-1 paper Publication Date: April 1997

UNITED STATES. Foreign Policy and National Security, McDougall, Walter A. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 286 pp., $26.00, ISBN 0-395-83085-0 Publication Date: April 1997

Audley, John J. Green Politics and Global Trade: NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 212 pp., $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-650-6 cloth ISBN 0-87840-651-4 paper Publication Date: October 1997

Hanhimäki, Jussi M. Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the “Finnish Solution,” 1945-1956. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. 279 pp., $39.00, ISBN 0-87338-558-6 Publication Date: May 1997

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, Gibson, Edward L. Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 274 pp., $48.50, ISBN 0-8018-5172-6 Publication Date: June 1996

Griffith, Ivelaw Lloyd. Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty under Siege. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. 295 pp., $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-271-01718-X cloth ISBN 0-271-01719-8 paper Publication Date: September 1997

Solingen, Etel. Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining: Designing Nuclear Industries in Argentina and Brazil. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 311 pp., $47.50, ISBN 0-8047-2601-9 Publication Date: 1996

Mainwaring, Scott, and Arturo Valenzuela, eds. Politics, Society, and Democracy: Latin America. Boulder, CO: Westview. 266 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-8133-8548-2 Publication Date: Spring 1998

Haber, Stephen, ed. How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 315 pp., $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-2737-6 cloth ISBN 0-8047-2738-4 paper Publication Date: February 1997

EUROPE AND COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES, Piening, Christopher. Global Europe: The European Union in World Affairs. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. 252 pp., $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 1-55587-694-3 cloth ISBN 1-55587-700-1 paper Publication Date: May 1997

Dörfer, Ingemar. The Nordic Nations in the New Western Security Regime. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. 103 pp., $32.50 cloth, $15.95 paper ISBN 0-943875-83-8 cloth ISBN 0-943875-82-X paper Publication Date: July 1997

Kurthen, Hermann, Werner Bergmann, and Rainer Erbs, eds. Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification. New York: Oxford University Press. 318 pp., $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper ISBN 0-19-510485-4 cloth ISBN 0-19-511010-2 paper Publication Date: May 1997

MacQueen, Norrie. The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa: Metropolitan Revolution and the Dissolution of Empire. Essex, UK: Longman. 266 pp., ISBN 0-583-25994-0 cloth ISBN 0-582-25993-2 paper Publication Date: 1997

Dawisha, Karen, ed. The International Dimension of Post-Communist Transitions in Russia and the New States of Eurasia. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 462 pp., $72.95 cloth, $29.95 paper ISBN 1-56324-370-9 cloth ISBN 1-56324-371-7 paper Publication Date: April 1997

Staar, Richard F. The New Military in Russia: Ten Myths that Shape the Image. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. 240 pp., $41.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 1-55750-798-8 cloth ISBN 1-55750-740-6 paper Publication Date: 1996

AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, Bratton, Michael, and Nicolas van de Walle. Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. 307 pp., $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-521-55429-2 cloth IBSN 0-521-55612-0 paper Publication Date: 1997

Deng, Francis M., et al. Sovereignty as Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 265 pp., ISBN 0-8157-1828-4 cloth ISBN 0-8157-1827-6 paper Publication Date: 1996

Diamond, Larry, Anthony Kirk-Greene, and Oyeleye Oyediran, eds. Transition without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society under Babangida. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. 515 pp., $55.00, ISBN 1-55587-591-2 Publication Date: August 1997

Garfinkle, Adam. Politics and Society in Modern Israel: Myths and Realities. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 322 pp., $62.95 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-7656-0005-6 cloth ISBN 0-7656-0006-4 paper Publication Date: February 1997

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Zheng, Sniping. Party vs. State in Post-1949 China: The Institutional Dilemma. New York: Cambridge University Press. 294 pp., $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-521-58205-9 cloth ISBN 0-521-58819-7 paper Publication Date: August 1997

Garver, John W. Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 193 pp., $18.95 paper ISBN 0-295-97617-9 paper Publication Date: August 1997

Godement, François; trans. Elisabeth J. Parcell. The New Asian Renaissance: From Colonialism to the Post-Cold War. New York: Routledge. 313 pp., $79.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-415-11856-5 cloth ISBN 0-415-11857-3 paper Publication Date: October 1997

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, LAW, AND ORGANIZATION, Clague, Christopher, ed. Institutions and Economic Development: Growth and Governance in Less-Developed and Post-Socialist Countries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 390 pp., $48.50 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8018-5492-X cloth ISBN 0-8018-5493-8 paper Publication Date: June 1997

Ojo, Bamidele A. Human Rights and the New World Order: Universality, Acceptability, and Human Diversity. Commack, NY: Nova Science. 237 pp., $59.00, ISBN 1-56072-438-2 Publication Date: 1997

Sisk, Timothy D. Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace Press. 143 pp., $7.95 paper ISBN 1-878379-56-9 paper Publication Date: 1996

Zartman, I. William, and J. Lewis Rasmussen, eds. Peacemaking in International Conflict: Methods and Techniques. Washington. DC: U.S. Institute of Peace Press. 412 pp., $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 1-878379-61-5 cloth ISBN 1-878379-60-7 paper Publication Date: 1997

Hoogvelt, Ankie. Globalization and the Postcolonial World: The New Political Economy of Development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 291 pp., $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-8018-5644-2 cloth ISBN 0-8018-5645-0 paper Publication Date: August 1997

Crocker, Chester A., and Fen Osler Hampson, eds., with Pamela Aall. Managing Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International Conflict. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace Press. 642 pp., ISBN 1-878379-59-3 cloth ISBN 1-878379-58-5 paper Publication Date: 1996

COMPARATIVE POLITICS, Farazmand, Ali, ed. Public Enterprise Management: International Case Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 303 pp., $69.00, ISBN 0-313-28025-8 Publication Date: October 1996

Tatalovich, Raymond. The Politics of Abortion in the United States and Canada: A Comparative Study. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharp. 265 pp., $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 1-56324-417-9 cloth ISBN 1-56324-418-7 paper Publication Date: November 1996

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY, Manin, Bernard. The Principles of Representative Government. New York: Cambridge University Press. 243 pp., $54.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-521-45258-9 cloth ISBN 0-521-45891-9 paper Publication Date: April 1997

Schneider, Anne Larason, and Helen Ingram. Policy Design for Democracy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 242 pp., $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-0843-5 cloth ISBN 0-7006-0844-3 paper Publication Date: September 1997

Newman, Saul. Ethnoregional Conflict in Democracies: Mostly Ballots, Rarely Bullets. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 279 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-313-30039-9 Publication Date: 1996

Haas, Ernst B. Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The Rise and Decline of Nationalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 362 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3108-5 Publication Date: June 1997

Weimer, David L., ed. The Political Economy of Property Rights: Institutional Change and Credibility in the Reform of Centrally Planned Economies. New York: Cambridge University Press. 363 pp., $64.95, ISBN 0-521-58101-X Publication Date: July 1997

Grubb, Alan. The Politics of Pessimism: Albert de Broglie and Conservative Politics in the Early Third Republic. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press. 427 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-87413-575-3 Publication Date: August 1996

Reinhardt, Mark. The Art of Being Free: Taking Liberties with Tocqueville, Marx, and Arendt. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 234 pp., $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8014-3137-9 cloth ISBN 0-8014-8424-3 paper Publication Date: May 1997

Löwith, Karl; trans. J. Harvey Lomax. Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 276 pp., $40.00, ISBN 0-520-06519-0 Publication Date: August 1997

Poster, Mark. Cultural History and Post modernity: Disciplinary Readings and Challenges. New York: Columbia University Press. 172 pp;, $47.50 cloth, $16.50 paper ISBN 0-231-10882-6 cloth ISBN 0-231-10883-4 paper Publication Date: September 1997

Clor, Harry M. Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 235 pp., $32.95 cloth, $16.00 paper ISBN 0-268-03813-9 cloth ISBN 0-268-03823-6 paper Publication Date: 1996

West, Thomas G. Vindicating the Founders: Race, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America. Lanham, MD: Rowman &; Littlefield. 200 pp., $22.95, ISBN 0-8476-8516-0 Publication Date: 1997

Friedman, Lawrence M., and George Fisher, eds. The Crime Conundrum: Essays on Criminal Justice. Boulder, CO: Westview. 210 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-8133-9021-4 Publication Date: November 1997

Brinkley, Alan, Nelson W. Polsby, and Kathleen M. Sullivan. New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution. New York: W. W. Norton. 179 pp., $23.00 cloth, $13.95 paper ISBN 0-393-04619-2 cloth ISBN 0-393-31737-4 paper Publication Date: 1997

Griffin, Stephen M., and Robert C. L. Moffat, eds. Radical Critiques of the Law. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 340 pp., $45.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-7006-0845-1 cloth ISBN 0-7006-0846-X paper Publication Date: August 1997

GENERAL, Flink, Stanley E. Sentinel under Siege: The Triumphs and Troubles of America's Free Press. Boulder, CO: Westview. 325 pp., $28.00, ISBN 0-8133-3344-X Publication Date: October 1997

Drukman, Mason. Wayne Morse: A Political Biography. Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society. 545 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-87595-263-1 Publication Date: June 1997     

The art of displacement – curating a preschool context in a public transport system

ABSTRACT

This article discusses ways of enabling the youngest children at preschool (1–3 years) to participate in creating space in the public transport system. One researcher, two preschool educators and six preschool toddlers travelled on foot, by bus and by underground train to the Brunkeberg tunnel, a pedestrian tunnel in the centre of Stockholm, Sweden. Drawing on artistic site-specific methods of displacement, this article details three propositions for how to ‘do’ preschool in the public transport system: locations, dimensions and positions. By placing the routines and rhythms of a preschool practice into the urban spaces of transport, the ‘miniature preschool’ comes to curate context. The article proposes methods for a preschool practice to curate context through activating mobile but particular locations within a specific place; creating a vocal mobile architecture; and enabling multiple and mobile positions within one specific situation.     

Baiting a master and his masterwork

Francis Korn. Elementary Structures Reconsidered: Levi‐Strauss on Kinship. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973. xv + 168 pp. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, name index, and subject index. $8.50.     

The upper Xingu village is a stage

Thomas Gregor. Mehinaku: The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.     

Toward a socially constituted linguistics

Roger W. Shuy, ed. Sociolinguistics: Current Trends and Prospects. Georgetown University Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics. Monograph 25: Report of the Proceedings of the 23rd Round Table. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1973. 351 pp. Appendix and index. $4.50.     

Protecting a Bloodstained History: Battlefield Conservation in Scotland

Abstract

Scotland's battlefields gained legislative protection in March 2011 with the publication of the Inventory of Scottish Battlefields. The background to the Inventory is explored, with a consideration of how similar issues have been approached in other countries. The paper then goes on to examine the approach taken in the creation of the Inventory, looking at the issues that arose and the solutions adopted.     

In search of a spiritus: Francesco Patrizi on tides

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This article analyzes two chapters of Francesco Patrizi’s Nova de universis philosophia that deal with a topic widely debated in European intellectual circles at the time: the origin of tides. By deconstructing Patrizi’s views on the phenomenon of ebb and flow, this paper places these chapters of Patrizi’s opus magnum into a larger context and shows how, with the use of novel philosophical arguments, he sought to replace what he considered an outdated theory of tides.     

Greek foreign policy towards the Armenian Question: a historical survey

Abstract

To Richard Clogg,

?a small token of auld acquaintance     

Internationalising Geography in Higher Education: Towards a conceptual framework

Key issues relating to the internationalisation of geography in higher education are explored. Drawing on past experience, critical questions are posed regarding the goals, ownership, management and operation of a proposed international network for teaching and learning in geography in higher education. It is argued that those developing the network must learn from the lessons of the past, both to avoid repeating avoidable mistakes and to ensure that the network successfully achieves its intended aims.     

Review of a research project

Industrialization and Foreign Politics. Some Aspects of Sweden's Economic‐Political Relations with the Great Powers, 1905–1945.     

Environing technologies: a theory of making environment

ABSTRACT

The central proposal of this article is that environing technologies shape and structure the way in which nature becomes environment, and as such used, perceived and understood. The argument builds on the understanding that environment is the result of human intervention. Technology is here understood broadly as a terraforming practise, materially and conceptually. We suggest that the compound environing technologies enable us to see environmental change on multiple scales and in new registers. That technologies alter the physical world is not new; our contribution focuses on the conceptual, epistemological, economic and emotional appreciation of systems and aggregates of technologies that is part and parcel of material change. The environing technologies that enable such articulation and comprehension hold potential in the future transformation that our societies need to undergo to overcome the crisis of environment and climate.     

Anthropology and alcohol: In search of a new paradigm

Jerrold E. Levy and Stephen J. Kunitz. Indian Drinking: Navajo Practices and Anglo‐American Theories. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974. xii + 257 pp. Tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, and index. $12.50.

William Madsen. The American Alcoholic: The Nature‐Nurture Controversy in Alcoholic Research and Therapy. Springfield: Charles C. Thomas, 1974. xvii + 248 pp. References, author and subject indices. $11.50.     

A man and a book

A. Irving Hallowell. Culture and Experience. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1974. (First published in 1955.) xiv + 434 pp. Figures, tables and bibliography. $6.95 (paper).     

Framing a survey of textile mills: RCHME's West Riding experience

Abstract

Large numbers of multi-storey textile mills have become redundant in the north of England. In 1984 the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England embarked on a survey of these mills in the former West Riding of Yorkshire. Following a pilot survey in the Worth Valley and Keighley, an initial survey identified 1400 mills and a ten per cent sample has been selected for fuller recording. This article discusses the considerations involved in defining the method and scope of the survey.     

Facilitating the transition from being a geography student to becoming a geographer in Spain: the role of professional identity

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The transition between university studies and workplace is often described as a difficult and challenging process. In this paper, we propose a series of modifications to the curriculum of geography studies based on an exploration of both student and professional perceptions on the image of the geography profession and how they identify with it. Based on several interviews, we suggest a series of recommendations for curriculum design to reconcile the disagreement found between student and professional perceptions and to foster students’ identification with professional images.