Soviet dilemmas

Archie Brown and Michael Kaser (eds), Soviet Policy for the 1980s, London, Macmillan, 1982, pp.282. £7.95 (paper)

David Childs, The GDR: Moscow's Ally, London, Allen & Unwin, 1983, pp.346. $19.95 (paper)

Ferenc Fehér and Agnes Heller, Hungary 1956 Revisited. The Message of a Revolution — a Quarter of a Century After, London, Allen & Unwin, 1983, pp.174. $29.95 (cloth)

Paul G. Lewis (ed.) Eastern Europe: Political Crisis and Legitimation, London & Sydney, Croom Helm, 1984, pp.202. $33.95 (cloth)

Borys Lewytzhyj, Politics and Society in Soviet Ukraine 1953–1980, Edmonton, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1984, pp.219. Can. $6.95 (paper)

Roy Medvedev, Khrushchev, Oxford, Blackwell, 1982, pp.292. $15.95 (paper)

Zhores Medvedev, Andropov: His Life and Death, Oxford, Blackwell, 1984, pp.255. $12.95 (paper)     

Book reviews

Laszlo Csaba (ed.). Systemic Change and Stabilization in Eastern Europe. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1991. xi +141 pp. No price given.

Bradley R. Gitz. Armed Forces and Political Power in Eastern Europe. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. x + 193 pp. No price given.

Leonid Gozman and Alexander Etkind. The Psychology of Post‐Totalitarianism in Russia. Translated by Roger Clarke. London: The Centre for Research into Communist Economies, 1992. 121 pp. £6.50 (paper).

Sten Berglund and Jan Ake Dellenbrant (eds). The New Democracies in Eastern Europe: Party Systems and Political Cleavages. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. xii + 237 pp. £39.95.

Adam Przeworski. Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 210 pp. $25.00 (paper).

Jyrki Iivonen (ed.). The Changing Soviet Union in the New Europe. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991. ix + 250pp. £35.00.

John McNair and Thomas Poole (eds). Russia and the Fifth Continent. Aspects of Russian‐Australian Relations. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1992. xiv+292 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Alan Dupont. Australia's Threat Perceptions: A Search for Security. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No.82. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1991. 105 pp. $12.00 (paper).

Viberto Selochan. New Directions and New Thinking in Australia‐Southeast Asia Relations. Australia‐Asia Papers No.62. Centre For The Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1992. $8.00 (paper).

Michael Nicholson. Formal Theories in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xiii + 254 pp. No price given.

Charles Reynolds. The World of States: An Introduction to Explanation and Theory. Aldershot, Hants.: Edward Elgar, 1992. xi + 236 pp. £38.50 (cloth), £12.95 (paper).

Rebecca Grant and Kathleen Newland (eds). Gender and International Relations. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991. xii +176 pp. $34.95 (paper).

Gisela Kaplan. Contemporary Western European Feminism. London: UCL Press; Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1992. xxvi + 340 pp. $24.95 (paper).

J.W. De Pauw and G.A. Luz (eds). Winning the Peace: Vie Strategic Implications of Military Civic Action. New York: Praeger, 1992. xvi + 238 pp. $US49.95.

Martin Shaw. Post‐Military Society. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991. viii + 229 pp. $32.95 (paper).

Ian Bellany. A Basis for Arms Control. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1991. ix+155 pp. No price given. Serge Sur (ed.). Verification of Current Disarmament and Arms Limitation Agreements: Ways, Means and Practices. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1991. ix+396 pp. £35.00.

D. Rueschemeyer, E.H. Stephens and J.D. Stephens (eds). Capitalist Development and Democracy. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. xi+387 pp. $45.00 (paper).

A.M. Messina, L.R. Fraga, L.A. Rhodebeck and F.D. Wright (eds). Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. xiv + 353 pp. $49.95. Harry Goulbourne. Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post‐Imperial Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xiv+271 pp. $110.00.

Yoram Dinstein and Mala Tabory (eds). The Protection of Minorities and Human Rights. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1992. xii + 537 pp. $US168.00.

John Zametica (ed.). British Officials and British Foreign Policy, 1945–50. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1990. 256 pp. $29.50.

R.A. Levine (ed.). Transition and Turmoil in the Atlantic Alliance. New York: Crane Russak, 1992. x+285 pp. £18.00 (paper).

Mark Borthwick (with contributions by selected authors). Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modem Pacific‐Asia. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1992. xv+590 pp. SUS54.95 (cloth), $US24.95 (paper).

Robert G. Sutter. East Asia and the Pacific. Challenges for US Policy. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 1992. vii + 182 pp. $33.95 (paper).

Toshio Watanabe. Asia: Its Growth and Agony. Honolulu: East‐West Center, Institute for Economic Development and Policy, 1992. xiv+175 pp. $US16.00 (paper).

Wang Jiye and T.H. Hull (eds). Population and Development Planning in China. Sydney. Allen and Unwin, 1991. xx + 311 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Ruth McVey (ed.). Southeast Asian Capitalists. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1992. 218 pp. No price given.

Heiner Hänggi. ASEAN and the ZOPFAN Concept. Pacific Strategy Paper No.4. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1991. 82 pp. $US9.00 (paper).

Joel S. Kahn and Francis Loh Kok Wah (eds). Fragmented Vision: Culture and Politics in Contemporary Malaysia. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1992. vi + 327 pp. $24.95 (paper).

Joan Hardjono (ed.). Indonesia: Resources, Ecology, and Environment. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1991. xvi + 262 pp. $44.95.

Shannon L. Smith. The Politics of Indonesian Rainforests. Monash University Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Working Paper No.76, 1992. 59 pp. $6.00.

Amando Doronila. The State, Economic Transformation, and Political Change in the Philippines, 1946–1972. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1992. xii+199 pp. $37.50.

K.E. Bauzon. Liberalism and the Quest for Islamic Identity in the Philippines. Durham, NC: The Acorn Press, 1991. ix + 219 pp. No price given.

Philippe Regnier. Singapore: City State in South‐East Asia. London: Christopher Hurst, 1991. 301 pp. £27.50.

Dean Forbes, Terence Hull, David Marr and Brian Brogan (eds). Dot Moi: Vietnam's Renovation, Policy and Performance. Political and Social Change Monograph No.14. Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1991. 263 pp. $18.00 (paper).

M.C. Williams. Vietnam at the Crossroads. London: Pinter/Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1992. viii + 104 pp. £22.50 (cloth), £8.95 (paper).

David P. Chandler. A History of Cambodia. Second edition. Boulder, Co.: Westview Press/Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1992. xvi + 287 pp. $29.95.

Michael Haas. Cambodia, Pol Pot and the United States: The Faustian Pact. New York: Praeger, 1991. xv+ 163 pp. $US37.95.

Helen M. Hintjens and Malyn D.D. Newitt (eds). The Political Economy of Small Tropical Islands: The Importance of Being Small. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1992. xxii + 247 pp. £29.50.

Elizabeth Watkins. Jomo's Jailor: Grand Warrior of Kenya. The Life of Leslie Whitehouse. Calais: Mulberry Books, 1992. xv+266 pp. £8.50 (paper).

John Rowland. Two Transitions: Indochina 1952–1955, Malaysia 1969–1972. Australians in Asia Series No.8. Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1992. 69 pp. $8.00 (paper).

L.A. Crozier. The Golden Land. Australians in Asia Series No.9. Centre for the Study of Australia‐Asia Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1992. 109 pp. $12.00 (paper).     

Picturing the poor: fundraising and the depoliticisation of homelessness

In this paper, we discuss the role images play in attracting charitable donations in an English homeless shelter. Focusing in particular on two image-based projects which feature service-users (one series of black-and-white still photography and one series of film clips posted on YouTube), we draw on interviews with fundraisers and the homeless participants themselves to discuss how they motivated their involvement and what impact they hoped the images would achieve. We conclude by providing some snapshots of how earlier images produced in the shelter have been circulated.     

New Women's Writing in France

Recent years have been marked by the deaths of a number of central figures of French women's writing: Marguerite Duras (1996), Christiane Rochefort (1998), Nathalie Sarraute (1999), Marie Cardinal (2001). It is too soon to know which of the newer writers currently attracting interest on the French literary scene and beyond will achieve similar canonical status. None the less, the passing of one generation of authors has coincided with the rise of a new generation of particularly exciting writers, many of whom first published work during the 1990s. Names such as Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq, Régine Detambel, Camille Laurens, Linda Lê, Marie Ndiaye, Amélie Nothomb are joining those of already established writers such as Hélène Cixous, Annie Ernaux, Sylvie Germain, Marie Redonnet and Leila Sebbar in what is a thriving and vibrant field of study, examined in this article.     

Post conflict identities: Affiliations and practices of Somali asylum seeker children

Following the 2005 terrorist attacks on London it emerged that two of the terrorists charged with the failed 21st July bombings had arrived in the UK as child asylum seekers from East Africa. In the ensuing debate the bombers were represented as children that turned to hate. In this discussion paper we draw on empirical work conducted in Sheffield, UK to explore the identities, affiliations and practices of Somali asylum seeker children, aged 11–18.1 ¹This ongoing research is being funded by the ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme (Award No: RES-148-025-0028) View all notes Specifically, we argue that the actions of the two bombers need to be framed within a broader understanding of the complex processes of social identification that take place as young people negotiate what it means to be a child in the context of different ‘age’, gender and racialised expectations and against a backdrop of discrimination and social exclusion in different relational geographical spaces. We begin by outlining the context of UK immigration policy, before reflecting on dominant constructions of both childhood and asylum seekers. We then discuss how these may shape young refugee and asylum seekers' own narratives of the self and the role that their mobility and specific sites of identity formation may play in this process. In doing so, we contribute to children's geographies by addressing a group – refugee and asylum seekers – that has been neglected within the sub-discipline.     

A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation of the findspot of an Iron Age bog body from Oldcroghan,Co. Offaly,Ireland

In 2003, the remains of an Early Iron Age bog body, known as ‘Oldcroghan Man’, were recovered during the cutting of a drainage ditch in a bog in the Irish Midlands. Only some fingernails and a withe fragment remained undisturbed in situ in the drain face, providing the sole evidence for the original position of the body. A detailed reconstruction of the depositional context of the body has been undertaken through multi-proxy analyses of a peat monolith collected at the findspot. The palynological record shows that the surrounding area was the focus of intensive human activity during the Later Bronze Age, but was largely abandoned during the Bronze Age–Iron transition in the mid-first millennium BC. In the mid-4th century BC, a bog pool developed at the site, evidenced in the stratigraphic, plant macrofossil, testate amoebae and coleopteran records. Plant macrofossil and pollen analysis of peat samples associated with the fingernails suggests that the body was deposited in this pool most likely during the 3rd century BC. The absence of carrion beetle fauna points to complete submergence of the body within the pool. Deposition occurred shortly before or around the time that the surrounding area again became the focus of woodland clearance, as seen in the extended pollen record from the peat monolith. This period corresponds to the Early Iron Age in Ireland, during which renewed cultural connections with Britain and continental Europe can be seen in the archaeological record and widespread forest clearance is recorded in pollen records from across Ireland. The palaeoenvironmental results indicate, therefore, that the demise of Oldcroghan Man took place at a pivotal time of socio-economic and perhaps political change.