The school of love: Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls

This paper examines Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls in light of sources that reveal the educational culture and intellectual activities of informally organised women's religious communities in northern France, Flanders and other regions associated with the beguine movement. What emerges from this new approach is the Mirror and its author's unambiguous didactic intent – a fact long overlooked in the scholarly literature. Rather than an elitist work with no practical purpose beyond personal, prophetic vision, this paper argues that Marguerite's book engages in debate with contemporaries to show them the imperative for moving beyond epistemological conventions in common currency, while providing them with a set of teachings to do so. As such, both the book and its history provide crucial evidence of beguine religious training, the acquisition of knowledge and the transmission of knowledge amongst networks of women religious, and indeed, much further afield.     

Extraction and sequencing of human and Neanderthal mature enamel proteins using MALDI-TOF/TOF MS

We report here the first results of a method to extract and sequence mature enamel proteins from modern human and Neanderthal tooth enamel. Using MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry and a combination of direct sequencing and peptide mass mapping we have sequenced a peptide from the tyrosine-rich amelogenin peptide (TRAP) of the X isoform of the amelogenin protein for modern and recent human samples. We also report our results from two Neanderthal enamel samples where we were also able to recover fragments of the TRAP protein, which had a similar sequence to the modern human samples.     

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THE MAKING OP FOREIGN POLICY: AN ANALYSIS OF DECISION‐MAKING. Joseph Frankel London, Oxford University Press, 1963. Pp. xi, 231. Australian price 57/9d.

THE UNITED NATIONS RECONSIDERED. Raymond A. Moore, Jr. (Ed.). University of South Carolina Press, 1963. Pp. xii + 158.

ARMED FORCES IN PEACE TIME: BRITAIN, 1918–1940, A CASE STUDY. Robin Higham. London, G. T. Foulis, 1962. Pp. xi + 332. Stg. £3/3/‐.

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. Calvin B. Hoover (ed.). Cambridge University Press for Duke University Press, 1963. Pp. x + 538. Stg. 37/6.

SPEARHEADS OF DEMOCRACY: LABOR IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. George C. Lodge. For the Council on Foreign Relations. New York, Harper & Row, 1962. $4.50.

POLITICS IN SOUTHERN ASIA. Saul Rose (ed.). London, Macmillan, 1963. Pp. 386. Australian price 52/‐.

CAMBODIA AND NEUTRALITY. Michael Leifer. 1962. Pp. 51.

DOCUMENTS ON THE AUGUST 1945 REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM: trans. C. Kiriloff; edit. Rima Rathausky. 1963. Pp. 70.

THE COLOMBO PLAN: SOME POLITICAL ASPECTS. L. P. Singh. 1963. Pp. 57.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE SETTLEMENT OF THE LAOTION QUESTION 1961–62. George Modelski. 1962. Pp. 156.

ARGENTINA. George Pendle. For the Royal Institute of International Affairs. London, Oxford University Press, 1963. Third edition. Pp. xii + 211. Price in Australia 41/6d.

BRITISH GUIANA. Raymond T. Smith. For the Royal Institute of International Affairs. London, Oxford University Press, 1962. Pp. viii + 218. Price in Australia 41/6d.

VENEZUELA. Edwin Lieuwen. For the Royal Institute of International Affairs. London, Oxford University Press, 1961. Pp. x + 193. Price in Australia 41/6d.

EXCESS AND RESTRAINT. Ronald M. Berndt. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1963. $8.95.     

Seeing Eye-to-eye: How do Public and Private Sector Views of a Biotech Cluster and its Cluster Initiative Differ?

As clusters have developed from an analytical concept into a key policy tool, numerous cluster initiatives, or collaborative organizations designed to enhance the competitiveness of clusters, have been implemented across the globe. However, while research on clusters is abundant, research specifically focusing on these emerging organizations is scant to date. This paper analyzes one such cluster initiative and its cluster, and in particular examines to what degree the public and private sectors (1) have the same understanding of the cluster's competitiveness and underlying strengths and weaknesses and (2) what activities the cluster initiative should conduct.     

A diasporic right to the city: the production of a Moroccan diaspora space in Granada,Spain

In this paper, I bring together ideas of ‘diaspora space’ and ‘the right to the city’ and empirically demonstrate how the formation of diasporas is frequently dependent on migrants attaining certain rights to the city. These rights, I argue, are conditioned and attained by the interplay of urban structural context with the place-making strategies of migrants. Drawing on 8 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I demonstrate that Moroccan migrants in Granada, Spain, have achieved a partial right to a neighbourhood of the city, producing a multi-sensory, self-orientalised diaspora space. First, I show that certain urban conditions in Granada provided a foothold for Moroccan migrants to begin to form a diaspora and transform urban space. Second, I demonstrate that through the mobilisation of a strategically self-orientalised cultural capital, the diaspora have partly appropriated the valuable history of Al-Andalus, a key component in the city’s tourist imagery. These factors and strategies have enabled Moroccan migrants to gain a right to have a visible presence in the city, a right to produce and transform urban space and a right to spatalise diverse identities – all key rights, I argue, in the formation of a diaspora.     

Campgrounds as service hubs for the marginally housed

The service hub concept is strongly associated with deprived areas of North American inner cities, where agglomerations of low‐cost housing and service providers form a space of survival for marginalised populations. In this paper, we contend that service hubs can take other forms, including as small‐scale sites of housing and service provision, informally networked across an urban region. We develop this argument with reference to suburban campgrounds in Auckland, New Zealand—a city experiencing a severe housing affordability crisis. Both individually and collectively, campgrounds enable vulnerable households, as well as tourists, to inhabit an increasingly exclusionary urban environment. Drawing on interviews with 24 resident campers and eight managers, we highlight the role of campgrounds in supporting residents through the provision of informal housing and on‐site services. This provision also benefits the facilities' owners and managers, by creating a year‐round rental income stream. We find that campgrounds are critically important for those whose lives are rendered precarious by the housing market.     

Political trust and residents’ support for alternative and mass tourism: an improved structural model

ABSTRACT

Political trust is a key requirement for tourism policies to flourish and sustain. The purpose of the research was to investigate the determinants of political trust and analyze whether the latter influences residents’ support for mass and alternative tourism. To this end, we develop a structural model based on the social exchange theory, institutional theory of political trust, and cultural theory of political trust. The model proposes six determinants of political trust which in turn is considered to influence residents’ support for mass and alternative tourism. Data were collected from residents’ of Mauritius selected using a stratified random sampling approach. We used a survey method based on a structured questionnaire. Using AMOS, the data were subjected to a confirmatory factor analysis to determine the fit of the measurement model. Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized model. Results indicated that such variables as the political and economic performance of government in tourism, interpersonal trust, and tourism benefits significantly predicted political trust. In turn, the latter was found to influence residents’ support for mass tourism only, lending support to Hetherington sacrificed-based concept borrowed from political science. The theoretical contribution of the study relates to the inclusion of the political trust variable to analyze its relationship with residents’ support for two opposing types of tourism development in a single theoretical model. We found that such relationship is contextual, depending on the object of exchange, conceptualized in here as the types of tourism residents are asked to support. Political trust figures more prominently for mass tourism than for alternative tourism given the considerable amount of sacrifices residents have to make to accommodate mass development. Our findings suggest that it is important for government to foster political trust among local people for tourism development to sustain.