Inter-Country Trade Patterns in Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Regional Structure and Extra-Regional Trends

This paper examines the regional structure and extraregional trends of Europe and the Asia-Pacific. The formation of the European Community and the latter's potential enlargement to Eastern Europe contrasts with the Asia-Pacific which has resisted economic and political integration and pursued economic linkages with countries outside of the region. The difference in regionalization tendencies have resulted in more geographically defined subregions in Europe, and greater territorial fragmentation in the Asia-Pacific. Even though European countries exhibit tighter interlinkages with one another, the evidence indicates that their extra-regional links compare favorably with the Asia-Pacific for much of the period from 1965 to 1994.     

“It's not like your home”: Homeless Encampments,Housing Projects,and the Struggle over Domestic Space

Based on an analysis of housing projects and homeless encampments in Fresno, California, this paper argues that both anti‐homeless policing and housing provision mutually constrain homeless people's expressions of home, such that struggles over domestic space have become integral to the contemporary politics of US homelessness. In particular, this article asserts that contemporary homelessness policy is marked by a clash between competing visions of home. While housing projects in Fresno are based on a model of privatized and surveilled apartments, people who lived in local encampments often asserted alternative notions of home grounded in community rather than family, mutual care rather than institutional care, and appropriation rather than consumption. Meanwhile, local officials viewed such alternative domestic spaces as non‐homes worthy of destruction. Rather than valorizing domestic struggles above public or institutional struggles, this article seeks to move beyond geographic binaries to more holistically approach the politics of US homelessness.     

MICRO-CREDIT AND DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHERN VIETNAM

Geographical development economics as reflected in the recent report by World Bank (2009) Reshaping Economic Geography (henceforth WDR-2009) and Sachs' (2005) End of Poverty has placed geographical factors of distance and density at the core of economic development. However, development geography has largely moved beyond a paradigm of modernity. This article seeks to narrow the above disciplinary divide and suggests that explanations of distance and density are not irrelevant but will need to be better integrated to local knowledge, practices and power relations in development schemes which are valued by development geographers. The latter is examined in the context of micro-credit programmes in two lagging areas, Soc Son and Vinh Loc, in northern Vietnam. Drawing from interviews and surveys of 160 female participants, we show that micro-credit, WDR-2009 and Sachs' geographical variables significantly affect poverty levels. However, qualitative interviews also reveal that the effects of distance, density and micro-credit schemes are constituted differently in the two areas. Relative to their Vinh Loc counterparts, Soc Son's participants experience less distance and density problems but are confronted with greater vulnerability to coercive relations of rule. In contrast, the approach to rule in the more geographically distressed area of Vinh Loc is underscored by flexibility and compromise which seek to cultivate conditions that sustain local livelihoods.     

美国拜金奇缘

在美国这个欲望国度的旅程中,“购物”是当之无愧的关键词。从时尚服饰到高级化妆品。从珠宝名表到高端数码……应有尽有。在开始美国淘金之旅前,记得多带几张银联卡,在美国全境,你都可以放心大胆地使用。     

带着孩子去飞行

襁褓中的婴儿哇哇大哭,坐立不安的孩子满过道乱窜,想到这些,身为父母的你是不是有些头疼？幸好,这样的空中场景已成过去,如今航空公司开始关注这些小客人,将他们的空中生活,打造成好吃好玩的游乐园。     

Book Reviews

THE THOMPSON INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. By JAMES TEIT. Edited by FRANZ BOAS. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. II., Anthropology. The Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

MADRAS GOVERNMENT MUSEUM. BULLETIN, Vol. III., No. 1. Anthropology. Notes on some of the people of Malabar; Mala Védars of Travancore; Miscellanea. With six plates. Madras: Government Press. 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

THE WELSH PEOPLE. Chapters on their Origin, History, Laws, Language, Literature, and Characteristics, by JOHN RHYS and D. BRYNMÔR-JONES. T. Fisher Unwin. 1900. Reviewed by Alfred Nutt.

HORNS or HONOUR, AND OTHER STUDIES IN THE BY-WAYS OF ARCHÆOLOGY. By F. T. ELWORTHY. Murray. 10s. 6d. Illustrated.

DAS BLUT IM GLAUBEN UND ABERGLAUBEN DER MENSCHHEIT. MIT BESONDERER BERÜCKSICHTIGUNG DER “VOLKSMEDIZIN” UND DES “JÜDISCHEN BLUTRITUS.” HERMANN L. STRACK. Fünfte bis Siebente Auflage. Neubearbeitung der Schrift “Der Blutaberglaube.” München, Beck, 1900. Reviewed by E. Sidney Hartland.

DIALOGUES OF THE BUDDHA: Translated from the Pali by T. W. RHYS DAVIDS: (Sacred Books of the Buddhists, translated by various Oriental scholars, arid edited by F. Max Müller, Vol. II.). Frowde, 1899. Reviewed by W. Crooke.

GRETTIS SAGA ASMUNDARSONAR. Ed. R. C. BOER. Pp. Iii. 348. 8vo. Halle, 1900. (Altnordische Saga-bibliothek, 8.) Reviewed by F. Y. P.

ARTUS' KAMPF MIT DEM KATZENUNGETÜM : DIE SAGA UND IHRE LOKALISIERUNG IN SAVOYEN. E. FREYMOND. Halle: Max Niemeyer. Reviewed by Jessie L. Weston.

SHAKSPEARE'S PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS OF TYRE, A STUDY IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. By ALBERT H. SMYTH. Philadelphia: MacCalla and Co. 1898.

JOURNAL OF THE FOLK-SONG SOCIETY. Vol. I., No. 1, 1899, pp. viii., 26. No. 2, 1900, pp. viii., 27–62. Printed for the Society by Spottiswoode & Co.

CARMINA GADELICA. Hymns and Incantations, with Illustrative Notes on Words, Rites, and Customs, dying and obsolete: orally collected in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and translated into English by ALEXANDER CARMICHAEL. 2 vols., 4to. 1900. xxxii. 339, xii. 350 pp. Edinburgh: Printed for the Author by T. & A. Constable, and sold by Norman Macleod. 300 copies printed. Reviewed by Alfred Nutt.

SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS and ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND, COLLECTED ENTIRELY FROM ORAL SOURCES. By [the late] JOHN GREGORSON CAMPBELL, Minister of Tiree. xx. 318 pp. Glasgow: MacLehose. 1900. Reviewed by Alfred Nutt.

BEDD GELERT, ITS FACTS, FAIRIES, AND FOLKLORE. By D. E. JENKINS. With an Introduction by Professor RHYS. Portmadoc: Llewelyn Jenkins. 1899.

SHAKESPEARE'S GREENWOOD. By GEORGE MORLEY. D. Nutt, 1900. Square 16mo., xx., 289 pp. Illustrated. Price 5s.

ALL ABOUT THE MERRY TALES OF GOTHAM. By ALFRED STAPLETON. Nottingham: R. N. Pearson. 1900. Illustrated. 190 pp.

CONTES POPULAIRES DE LA BASSE NORMANDIE. Recueillis et Publiés par VICTOR BRUNET. Emile Lechevalier. 1900. 151 pp. Price 3 fr. 50. Only 100 copies printed.     

ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE NETHERLANDS: PRODUCTIVITY,UTILITY, AND SORTING*

ABSTRACT This paper identifies the impact of cultural diversity on local economies, by explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities using unique individual panel data of homeowners during the period 1999 and 2008. We distinguish between the effects of spatial sorting based on individual heterogeneity, interactions‐based productivity effects, and consumer amenities while controlling for interactions between the labor and housing market. In line with previous literature, we find a positive effect of cultural diversity on average housing prices. After controlling for spatial sorting, the effect of cultural diversity on housing prices is negative. The negative impact of cultural diversity on local housing markets is likely driven by a causal effect between the presence of immigrants and neighborhood quality that outweighs a positive effect of immigrant‐induced diversity in consumption goods.