Linking scales: or how research about gender and organizations raises new issues for economic geography

One of the key geographical organizing concepts is that of scale.In the last few years, there has been an interesting debateabout the nature of scale and its relational character, constructedthrough and reinforcing social relations of power. In this paper,I suggest that the rapid growth of a literature about genderand organizations, largely ignored by geographers, might profitablybe brought into juxtaposition with geographical analyses ofeconomic restructuring to suggest both new ways of thinkingabout the scale and about the organization. As organizationsbecome increasingly transnational in their operation, interestingnew questions about connections, networks and hierarchies andthe governance of different aspects of the organization andthe economy arise at different spatial scales.     

Border crossings: reflections on women's lives in twentieth-century Britain

There has been a growing focus on personal life, memoir and autobiography in feminist writing, and in the social sciences more generally, in recent years. Feminist geographers, among others, argue that family relationships and personal recollections should be part of studies of the construction of personal identity and a sense of place. I combine this argument with research into women's labour market participation to explore the changing significance of waged work in British women's lives over the last century, seen through the personal lens of three generations of women's experiences of migration across geographical and class boundaries.     

Why Do People Become Involved With Archaeology? Some Answers from Alabama��s Black Belt Region

This paper considers a question posed by the organizers of the Dynamics of Inclusion in Public Archaeology symposium: “Why do people become involved?” Based on my own quest for public involvement with Cahawba, a site in Alabama’s Black Belt region, I contend that people are most likely to become involved when an archaeologist communicates interpretively. Furthermore, certain categories of people are just more likely to become actively engaged with archaeology than others. Who are they? What are their characteristics? Where can they be found? The National Survey on Recreation and the Environment has the answers.