The identity of the poor in urban research

Edwin Eames and Judith Granich Goode. Urban Poverty in a Cross‐Cultural Context. New York: The Free Press, 1973. vii + 299 pp. Notes, references, and index. $8.95.     

Assessing mussel shell diagenesis in the modern vadose zone at Lyon's Bluff (22OK520), Northeast Mississippi

This study considers the chemical alteration of archaeological freshwater shell above the water table at the Lyon's Bluff site (22OK520), a single-mound and village complex located in east-central Mississippi, and the changes in trace element concentrations between unfired and fired shell. Thin-section petrography, X-ray diffraction, cathodoluminescence, and scanning electron microscopy analyses were conducted on archaeological shell from four natural layers from Unit 20N20W, over a depth of 80 cm and spanning 450 years. ICP–MS analysis also was conducted on a modern freshwater shell subjected to kiln firing. Microscopy results indicate a pristine aragonite crystal structure in the archaeological samples. ICP–MS data show that certain trace elements within the modern shell maintain their concentration after firing at 500 °C. The broader implications are: 1) that diagenetic alteration does not hinder chemical sourcing of shell at Lyon's Bluff, and 2) that certain trace elements are more reliable than others, namely Sr²⁺, Al²⁺, Ba²⁺, and Mn²⁺, when conducting trace element provenance studies on fired-shell temper.     

Engaged acclimatization: Towards responsible community‐based participatory research in Nunavut

In this article, we consider the formation of responsible research relationships with Inuit communities from an “outsider” researcher perspective. Cautious not to prescribe what counts as responsible, we draw on research experiences in several Nunavut communities to introduce and explain “engaged acclimatization.” This neologism refers to embodied and relational methodological processes for fostering responsible research partnerships, and is inspired by the significance of preliminary fieldwork in orienting the lead author's doctoral thesis. As a complement to community‐based participatory methodologies, engaged acclimatization facilitates endogenous research by enacting ethics as a lived experience, initiating and nurturing relationships as a central component of research, and centring methods on circumstances within participating communities. After we locate engaged acclimatization within resonant literature and details of interrelated research projects, our article sketches out four aspects of engaged acclimatization: crafting relations, learning, immersion, and activism. In our discussion of each, we integrate specific insights derived from field notes, observations, photographs, critical reflections, and literature that have brought us to this understanding. The four aspects provide conceptual and methodological tools for readers to apply in the contexts of their own research programs or in guidelines for establishing partnerships with Inuit or Aboriginal communities. The value of this article lies in the extent to which it encourages readers to situate engaged acclimatization in their own research and further develop it as a process.     

From There to Here: Punctuated Equilibrium to the General Punctuation Thesis to a Theory of Government Information Processing

In this introduction to the Policy Study Journal's special issue on punctuated equilibrium, we provide an overview of the approach, how it evolved, some of the major critiques directed at it, and some of the major developments it has spawned. We argue that the most important aspect of a theory or framework is not whether it is right or wrong, but the extent to which it is fruitful; that is, the extent to which it stimulated further research. Finally, we review the articles in this issue and put them in context.     

The vague nouvelle and the Nouvelle Vague: The Critical Construction of le jeune cinéma français

One of the commonplaces in critical writing on the 1990s movement known as le jeune cinéma français is the idea that it constituted a new ‘New Wave’. At the same time, the critical reception of the 1990s and 1960s ‘new waves’ could not be more different, with le jeune cinéma français being seen invariably as aesthetically inferior to its 1960s ‘antecedent’. This article examines the two key discursive mechanisms used to link le jeune cinéma français to the Nouvelle Vague, those of political commitment and ‘auteur’ cinema. It is argued that the mechanisms used to construct le jeune cinéma français as a distinct cinematic category become increasingly divorced from the kinds of films actually being made and that it is this discursive disjuncture which is, in part, responsible for its negative critical reception.     

Some geographical factors in the Northern Appalachian coalfield

EUROPE

The Glory of Scotland. By J. J. Bell. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 1s. 6d.

The A.A. Road Book of Ireland. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1932. Price 1s. 6d. net.

Ireland. The Blue Guides. Edited by Findlay Muirhead. London : Ernest Benn Ltd., 1932. Price 12s. 6d. net.

The Story of Dublin. By D. A. Chart. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1932. Price 5s. 6d. net.

Loch Lomond : A Study in Angling Conditions. By Henry Lamond. Glasgow : Jackson, Wylie and Co., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

The Lakes of Wales: A Guide for Anglers and Others. By Frank Ward. London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1931. Price 10s. 6d.

At the Western Gate of Italy. By Edward and Margaret Berry. London : John Lane (The Bodley Head) Ltd., 1931. Price 8s. 6d.

The Challenge of Russia. By Sherwood Eddy. London : Herbert Jenkins Ltd., 1931. Price 10s. 6d.

Slovakia, Then and Now. A political survey by many Slovak authors, arranged by R. W. Seton‐Watsoh. London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd. Prague : Orbis Publishing Co., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

Water and Grass. By E. H. Carrier. London : Christophers, 1932. Price 21s. net.

The Baltic Region ; A Study in Physical and Human Geography. By E. G. Woods. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 18s. net.

Gone Abroad. By Charles Graves. London : Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1932. Price 9s. 6d.

West Highland Scenes and Stories. By Margaret Brown, London : Cecil Palmer, 1932. Price 7s. 6d.

Please Take Me Next Time. By Percy Colson. London : Nash and Grayson, 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

Rambles in Shakespeare's Country. By J. H. Wade, M.A. London : Methuen and Co., 1932. Price 7s. 6d.

Up at a Villa—Down in the City. By Nesta de Robeck. London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1932. Price 7s. 6d.

ASIA

A Dictionary of English‐Palaung and Palaung‐English. By Mrs. Leslie Milne. Rangoon : Supdt. Govt. Printing and Stationery, 1931.

The Romance of the Indian Frontiers. By Lieut.‐Gen. Sir George MacMunn, K.C.B. London : Jonathan Cape, 1931. Price 16s. net.

With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet. By Alexandra David‐Neel. London : John Lane (The Bodley Head) Ltd., 1931. Price 15s. net.

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A Game Warden among his Charges. By Captain Pitman. London : Nisbet and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 16s.

Cape to Cowley via Cairo in a Light Car. By M. L. Belcher. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 8s. 6d.

Rambles in Cairo. By Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. Cairo : E. and R. Schindler, London : Luzac and Co., 1931. Price 8s. 6d.

The Birds of Tropical West Africa. By David Armitage Bannerman. Vol. II. London : The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1931. Price 22s. 6d.

AMERICA

The New Newfoundland. By J. R. Smallwood. New York : The Macmillan Company Ltd., 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

The Great Plains. By Walter Prescott Webb. London and New York : Ginn and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 21s.

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Hidden Wealth and Hiding People. By Michael Terry. London and New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons Ltd., n.d. Price 15s. net.

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The Pioneer Fringe. By Prof. Isaiah Bowman. New York ; American Geographical Society, 1931. Price $4.

Jenseits der Grossmächte. Von Dr. Karl Haushofer. Leipzig u. Berlin : B. G. Teubner, 1932. Preis R.M. 13.50.

The English Adventurers. By Clennell Wilkinson. London : Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1931. Price 3s. 6d. net.

Manual of Meteorology. Vol. IV. By Sir Napier Shaw with the assistance of Elaine Austin. Cambridge : University Press, 1931. Price 30s.

The Company of Scotland : Trading to Africa and the Indies. By Groege Pratt Insh., D.Litt. F.E.I.S. Author of Scottish Colonial Schemes, 1620–1686, and Editor of Darien Shipping Papers, 1695–1707. (Scottish History Society.) London and New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Price 12s. 6d.

To the Ends of the World and Back. By J. Walker M'Spadden. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell, 1931. Price $3.

Doubloons. By Charles B. Driscoll. London : Chapman and Hall Ltd., 1931. Price 18s. net.

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A Primer of Economic Geography. By L. W. Lyde, M.A. London : Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., 1931. Price 5s. net.

The Approach to Geography. By E. Bown, F.R.G.S.. London : Christophers, 1931. Price 3s. 6d.

Southern Europe : A Regional and Economic Geography of the Mediterranean Lands. By Marion I. Newbigin. London : Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1932. Price 15s. net.     

ON THE IMPACT OF LABOR MARKET MATCHING ON REGIONAL DISPARITIES*

ABSTRACT We propose a model where imperfect matching between firms and workers on local labor markets leads to incentives for spatial agglomeration. We show that the occurrence of spatial agglomeration depends on initial size differences in terms of both number of workers and firms. Allowing for dynamics of workers' and firms' location choices, we show that the spatial outcome depends crucially on different dimensions of agents' mobility. The effect of a higher level of human capital on regional disparities depends on whether it makes workers more mobile or more specialized on the labor market.     

Community consultation in public policy: The case of the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia

Community consultation is widely employed in contemporary Australia as a means of improving the formulation and implementation of public policy. However, little is known about the optimal expenditure of effort required for any given consultation. This article develops a rational choice model of community consultation that seeks to encapsulate the major elements involved in optimising consultation effort. The framework is particularly useful for understanding and explaining why actual community consultation processes may be sub-optimal. The rational choice model is then applied to the Living Murray debate over water resources in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia.