Reviews

DEFEATING COMMUNIST INSURGENCY: EXPERIENCES FROM MALAYA AND VIETNAM. Sir Robert Thompson. Chatto & Windus, 1966. Pp. 171. $3.60.

THE REVOLUTION IN EGYPT'S ECONOMIC SYSTEM. FROM PRIVATE ENTERPRISE TO SOCIALISM 1952–1965. P. O'Brien. Oxford University Press for R.I.I.A., 1936. Pp xviii + 354. $8.55.

SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS AND RELIGION. Donald E. Smith (editor). Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1966. Pp. 563. $15.00 (U.S.).

THE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC COOPERATION IN ASIA. A STUDY OF ASIAN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. Lalita Prasad Singh. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1966. Pp. xiii + 271. $7.00 (U.S.).

THE ORIGINS OF MALAY NATIONALISM. W. R. Roff. Yale Southeast Asia Studies, 2. Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, University of Malaya Press; New Haven and London, Yale University Press. 1967. Pp. 297. $10 (Malaysian).

UNITED NATIONS PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — HIGHER CONDUCT. Major General J. J. Rikye. Paris, International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 17. $U.S. 1.00.

SOME PRINCIPLES FOR PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — A GUIDE FOR SENIOR OFFICERS. Brigadier A. J. Wilson. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 12. $U.S. 1.00.

MILITARY STAFFING AT U.N. HEADQUARTERS FOR PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — A PROPOSAL. Lt. Col. L. M. K. Stern. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 14. ?U.S. 1.00.

THE SWEDISH U.N. STAND‐BY FORCE AND EXPERIENCE. Colonel Nils Stenqvist. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 18. ?U.S. 1.00.

RESEARCH ON PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS — CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE NEEDS. Albert Legaiult. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 57. $U.S. 1.00.

PEACE‐KEEPING OPERATIONS. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Prepared by Albert Legault. International Information Centre on Peace‐Keeping Operations, 1967. Pp. 203. $U.S. 5.00.

KEEPING THE PEACE. Lt. Col. R. B. Tackaberry. Toronto, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, September 1966. Pp. 26. 35c.

BRITAIN'S WITHDRAWAL FROM ASIA. ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR AUSTRALIA. T. B. Millar (ed.). ANU, 1967. Pp. 114. $2.10. . THE CONCEPT OF A PACIFIC COMMUNITY. National Catholic Rural Movement, 1967. Pp. 79. $0.50.

CHANGING AUSTRALIA'S ROLE IN ASIA. J. F. Cairns. Melbourne University. Democratic Socialist Club, 1967. Pp. 8. $0.15.

AUSTRALIA FACES SOUTHEAST ASIA. THE EMERGENCE OF A FOREIGN POLICY. Awry and Mary Belle Vandenbosch. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1967. Pp. vi + 175. $5.75 (U.S.).

WHY VIETNAM? Frank N. Trager. Pall Mall Press, 1966. Pp. 238. $5.85.     

Developing Psychogeriatric Services in England: A Turning Point in the 1960s?

Attitudes towards autonomy and personal freedom changed in the 1960s in England, but hardly touched the needs of dependent older people. In particular, deeply embedded public and professional attitudes and priorities linked to little change in ‘psychogeriatric’ treatment for those who were mentally unwell. Total beds in psychiatric hospitals decreased, but those remaining were increasingly and disproportionately occupied by older people receiving custodial care, often long term, despite evidence that appropriate treatment could prevent admission and facilitate discharge. Widely publicised scandals of inhumane care of older people in psychiatric hospitals prompted a more responsive government approach to improving services.     

Gender equality and economic empowerment in the Solomon Islands and Fiji: a place-based approach

The economic empowerment of women is emerging as a core focus of both economic development and gender equality programmes internationally. At the same time, there is increasing importance placed on measuring outcomes and quantifying progress towards gender and development goals. These trends raise significant questions around how well gender differences are understood, especially in economies dominated by the informal sector and characterised by a highly gendered division of labour, as is the case in many Pacific countries. How well do existing international and national indicators of gender equality reflect the experiences and aspirations of Pacific women and men? What do concepts such as gender equality and economic empowerment mean in this geographical context? How might local attitudes and practices be identified and measured? In this paper, we draw on Boaventura De Sousa Santos’ call to recognise and value knowledges of the majority world that have been rendered either largely invisible or non-credible by mainstream development and human rights policy agendas. Reflecting on an action research project conducted with partner organisations in Fiji and the Solomon islands, we explore a more nuanced place-based approach to understanding and measuring gender equality and economic empowerment. This approach takes account of diverse economic practices, such as non-market transactions, and forms of non-cash exchange and unpaid labour, and recognises the imbalance in women’s and men’s household and care work.     

Feminism from the Margin: Challenging the Paris/Banlieues Divide

This paper aims to cast light on specifically French constructions of gender, citizenship and nationhood and articulate two bodies of work, one dealing with political mobilizations of racialized minorities in the French context, and the other dealing with gender concerns in urban policy. Emerging social movements in the urban area of Paris are having to take position in a context in which a normative “state feminism” is being used to stigmatize working‐class neighbourhoods in the banlieues as well as their male inhabitants. This paper considers the “double bind” in which feminist activists, and women more generally, find themselves as a result. It argues that some formerly silenced groups are being granted space for expression by the current foregrounding of “women” in urban policy. Drawing on bell hooks' insights on the margin/centre tension in feminist theory as a useful way of thinking about the spatial dimension of these issues, the paper looks at one group in particular that defines itself and its strategies in spatial terms.     

世界遗产:合作、交流与能力建设

1972年《保护世界文化和自然遗产公约》(简称《公约》)通过,其初衷旨在创造一种国际机制,促进合作,鼓励对文化和自然遗产突出普遍价值的自愿性保护.世界遗产名录自1977年设立以来,不断迎来新成员,截至2014年,全球世界遗产数目已突破千项.