Book reviews

Teny S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Eds. Technology and the West: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997), pp. 461.

Jon Agar. Science and Spectacle: The Work ofjodrell Bank in Post‐War British Culture. Harwood, 1998. pp. Xx+260. IIIus., Index., Bibliog.

David Nye. Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998), pp. xii + 331.     

The Medieval sea‐state

EUROPE

Pilgrim Spots in Galloway. By G. Marianne M'Kerlie. London : Sands and Co., 1916. Price 5s. net.

Midsummer Motoring in Europe. By De Courcy W. Trom. New York and London : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. Price 10s. 6d. net.

ASIA

A Naturalist in Borneo. By the late Robert W. C. Shelford, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, M.A., etc., late Curator of the Sarawak Museum, and Assistant Curator of the Hope Department of Zoology, Oxford University Museum. Edited, with a Biographical Introduction, by Edward B. Poulton, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Hope Professor of Zoology, and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. London : T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., 1916. Price 15s. net.

In Far North‐East Siberia. By I. W. Shklovsky (“Dioneo”). London : Macmillan and Co. Price 8s. 6d. net.

Provincial Geographies of India. The Panjab, North‐West Frontier Province, and Kashmir. By Sir James Douie, M.A., K.C.S.I. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. Price 6s. net.

AMERICA

David Thompson's Narrative of his Explorations in Western America, 1784–1812. Edited by J. B. Tyrrell. Toronto : The Champlain Society, 1916.

AUSTRALASIA

Australia. (University Manuals.) By J. W. Gregory, F.R.S. Cambridge : University Press, 1916. Price 1s. 3d. net.

GENERAL

Naval and Military Geography of the British Empire (considered in Relation to the War with Germany). By Vaugiian Cornish, D.Sc. London : Hugh Rees, 1916. Price 3s. 6d. net.

Cambridge Travel Books. The Earliest Voyages round the World, 1519–1617. Edited by Philip P. Alexander, M.A., Hertford College, Oxford. Cambridge : At the University Press, 1916. Price 3s.

The German Colonial Empire. By Paolo Giordani. Translated by Mrs. Gustavus W. Hamilton. London : G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1916.

EDUCATIONAL

New Regional Geographies.—(1) The Americas. (2) Asia and Australasia. By Leonard Brooks, M. A. (Cantab.), F.R.G.S. London : University of London Press, Ltd., 1916. Price 3s. each.

A Nursery Geography. By George S. Dickson. London : T. C. and E. C. Jack. Price 3s. 6d. net.     

Dynamic Resistance: Third‐Sector Processes for Transforming Neoliberalization

This paper proposes a holistic framework called dynamic resistance for analysing and animating third‐sector organizations’ contestations of neoliberalization. It argues that the third sector constitutes a rich terrain for transforming neoliberalization processes to promote human flourishing and social justice. Dynamic resistance comprises four elements—rejection, resilience, resourcefulness, and reflexive practice—within a cyclical process which can occur simultaneously at different organizational scales. Four vignettes, drawn from participatory action research, illustrate these processes at Oblong, a grassroots community group in Leeds which now runs a community centre. Despite engagement with neoliberal mechanisms, Oblong provides an example of dynamic resistance in practice, avoiding “mission drift” and prioritizing self‐defined core values of equality, collectivity, empowerment, sustainability, respect and care, and being community led. Dynamic resistance suggests third‐sector organizations’ capacity to construct transformative social empowerment through ever‐changing practices which are proactive and self‐directed as well as responsive.     

Enterprise Discourse and Executive Talk: Stories that Destabilize the Company

In this paper, we are interested in dissolving the dominant representation of the enterprise as a singularity and a site of rational, reproductive and progressive imperatives. It is this discursive figuring that, in our view, stands in the way of the development of more innovative forms of politics involving claims on corporate wealth. We offer a discussion of enterprise discourse that highlights contradictory narratives of the corporation and the multiplicity of logics seen to determine its dynamics. Taking the Australian-based multinational BHP, in particular its steel division, as our object of analysis, we use excerpts from interviews conducted with two ex-general managers of the Newcastle steel plant to deconstruct the dominant monopoly capitalist representation of the company. Drawing upon existing enterprise discourses and fragments of executive talk, we produce a decentred, 'disorganized' representation of the enterprise, and point to the ways in which it might invigorate a new form of politics in and around the corporation.     

Financial narratives of the modern corporation

This paper is about the ways that financial narratives are usedby corporations to drive organizational change. Analysis offinancial practices within BHP Ltd, a large Australian resourcescompany, is used to trace the development of new managementstrategies, how they have been propelled by financial tacticsand tools and how specific investment outcomes have been valorizedto the exclusion of others. The second section of the paperfocuses on the role of the logics of finance and accountingin general and the ways particular corporate accumulation anddistributional outcomes are produced. The section draws heavilyon insights into accounting representations of the firm in thework of Anthony Hopwood and his peers centred on the journalAccounting, Organizations and Society. The third section discussespossibilities for alternate distributional outcomes which mightarise from different stakeholder participation in the governanceand operation of large firms.     

Book reviews

AUSTRALIAN DIPLOMAT. Alan Watt. Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0207–12354–3. 329 pp. $8.50.

AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR. W. R. Crocker. Sun Books, Melbourne, 1971. 211 pp. $1.95 paper.

THE POLITICS OF DEPENDENCE: PAPUA NEW GUINEA 1968. A. L. Epstein, R. S. Parker, Marie Reay (eds.). Australian National University Press, 1971. 0–424–06270–4. 398 pp. $8.95.

AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA. W. J. Hudson (ed.). Sydney University Press, 1971. 0–7081–0188–7. 198 pp. $6.50 hard cover, $4.00 paper.

AUSTRALIA IN THE NUCLEAR AGE: NATIONAL DEFENCE AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Ian Bellany. Sydney University Press, 1972. 0424063107. 144 pp. $6.00.

THE CRISIS OF LOYALTY: A STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY. Bruce Grant. Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0–207–12472, 0–207–12423‐X. 107 pp. $3.25 hard cover, $2.50 paper.

THE AUSTRALIAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1968–1969. H. B. Connell (ed.). Butterworth (Australia), 1971. 409–3940–9. 244 pp. $12.50.

KENT HUGHES. A BIOGRAPHY. Frederick Howard. The Macmillan Company of Australia, Melbourne, 1972. 0–333–13909–7. 255 pp. $6.50.

THE MAKING OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION. J. A. La Nauze. Melbourne University Press, 1972. 05–2284016–7. xi, 369 pp.

RICHARD BOURKE. Hazel King. Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1971. 312 pp. $10.95.

INDIA, PAKISTAN AND THE GREAT POWERS. William J. Barnds. Pall Mall Press, London, 1972. 269–67199–4. 388 pp. £4.25 (stg).

THE INDIAN OCEAN: TOWARDS A PEACE ZONE. Devendra Kaushik. Vikas, Delhi, 1972. 7069–0173–8. 225 pp. 24 Rupees.

INDIA, RUSSIA, CHINA AND BANGLA DESH. J. A. Naik. S. Chand & Co., New Delhi, 1972. 163 pp. 20 Rupees.

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC IN THE 1970s: THE ROLES OF THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. Bruce Brown (ed.). Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1971. 0–7081–0087–2. 253 pp. $5.

THE ASIAN NEWSPAPERS’ RELUCTANT REVOLUTION. John A. Lent (ed.). Iowa State University Press, 1971. 08138–1335–3. 373 pp. $US12.50.

AN INTRODUCTION TO SOUTHEAST ASIAN POLITICS. J. R. E. Waddell John Wiley and Sons, Sydney, 1972. 0471–91301–4, 0471–91300–6. 305 pp. $6.50 hard cover, $4.50 paper.

THE INDONESIAN COMMUNIST PARTY AND LAND REFORM 1959–1965. Rex Mortimer. Monash Papers on Southeast Asia, Number One, 1972. 78 pp. $1.50.

INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT IN MALAYA. PRELUDE TO THE COMMUNIST REVOLT OF 1948. Michael Stenson. Oxford University Press, London, 1970. 19–212957–0. 271 pp. $7.80.

NATIONALISM, REVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Michael Leifer (ed.). Ag Zug, Switzerland, Inter Documentation Company, 1970. 175 pp. Swiss Fr. 28.50.

THE PEOPLE'S ACTION PARTY OF SINGAPORE: EMERGENCE OF A DOMINANT PARTY SYSTEM. Thomas J. Bellows. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, New Haven, 1970. Distributed by Cellar Book Shop, Detroit. 195 pp. $US5.75.

THE INNOVATORS. THE ROLE OF FOREIGN TRAINED PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. Mary C. Hodgkin. Sydney University Press, Sydney, 1972. 0424–063808. 118 pp. $3.00 Paper.

JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA IN THE SEVENTIES. J. A. A. stockwin (ed.). Angus & Robertson in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Sydney, 1972. 0–207–12395–0. 223 pp. $4.00 hard cover, $3.25 paper.

THE FEDERATION OF SOUTH AFRICA. Leo Marquard. Oxford University Press, 1971. 142 pp. £2 (stg.).

AMERICA THE DUTIFUL: AN ASSESSMENT OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY. Philip W. Quigg. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1971. 223 pp. $6.95.     

Scrutiny in the Modern City: The domestic public and the Toronto Local Council of Women at the turn of the twentieth century: La vigilancia en la Ciudad Moderna: Lo domestico público y el Concilio Local de Mujeres de Toronto en los inicios de siglo XX

In this article I argue that late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ‘white’ Protestant bourgeois women acted publicly and engaged in the production of public space, while disregarding the moral geographies now associated with such women's mobility. Highlighting the urban/social reform activities of the Toronto Local Council of Women, this article argues that their unlimited use of public space combines with domestic ideology's dictate to protect the home. Requiring women to scrutinize public space for threats against their families, home-protection compelled domestic public women to discover, assess and correct city-hazards, irrespective of moral geographies.

En este artículo argumento que a finales del siglo XIX y el principio del siglo XX, las mujeres burguesas, protestantes, ‘blancas’ participaron en la construcción del espacio publico cuestionando las geografías morales asociados con este tipo de movilidad de las mujeres. Subrayando las actividades de la reforma urbana/social del Concilio Local de Mujeres de Toronto, este artículo propone que el uso ilimitado del espacio público que hicieron estas mujeres combinando con la ideología del espacio doméstico contribuyeron a la protección del hogar. Dada la motivación de proteger el hogar, estas mujeres con acceso al espacio público, se vieron forzadas y examinado en busca de posibles amenazas a sus familias y como consecuencia, a identificar, evaluar y corregir ciertos peligros urbanos sin tener en cuenta las geografías morales.