entangled parameters of social, economic and environmental justice. For instance, Wilson’s analys... more entangled parameters of social, economic and environmental justice. For instance, Wilson’s analysis takes us beyond simple dichotomies of consumeras-hedonist and consumer-as-champion-of-identity to reveal how people in Cuba variously choose between contrasting rationalities of consumption. The book thereby advances recent work on the political economic and moral geographies of consumption through the incorporation of anthropological theories of power and value, alongside additional insights from economic anthropology, the anthropology of food and the anthropology of post-socialism. With the narratives of personal experiences, participant observation and the use of conversation as data, Wilson shows how normative modalities of food production, exchange and consumption in rural Cuba reflect moral dedication and commitment to a range of different communities, circumscribed variously by the household, the neighbourhood, the nation or indeed the entire globe. In sum, Wilson’s book is a compelling study of food provisioning in rural Cuba and shows what can be achieved by bringing conceptual tools at the interface of human geography and anthropology together with the insights of sustained and sensitive on-the-ground fieldwork. It offers a lucid examination of the intersections of socialist and market systems of provisioning in a particular context, but in so doing shines light on the simultaneously moral and material bases of all economies and the multi-scalar dynamics that shape how those intersections are lived and experienced.
To be traditionally geographical for a moment, it is remarkable that people manage to live on the... more To be traditionally geographical for a moment, it is remarkable that people manage to live on the equator and in settlements located beyond 78°N and 55°S; in areas with population densities ranging from 17 000 people per square kilometre to those with only one person per 39 square kilometres; in conditions of torrential rain and in burning aridity; on the coast and as far as 2250 kilometres from the sea; below sea-level and at 5100 metres above the sea; and that they live on stable platforms and perch, more or less neurotically, upon unstable fault lines.
This is one of those intriguing books, the very subject of which necessarily raises questions abo... more This is one of those intriguing books, the very subject of which necessarily raises questions about what might be considered to be normal/abnormal, good/bad, moral/ immoral. But it also shows that such binaries are not necessarily very helpful. Its subject matter is entrepreneurship-but entrepreneurship in the underground economy. As Colin Williams points out, this is an aspect of entrepreneurship rarely addressed in the mainstream literature on the subject. This literature, he argues, represents the entrepreneur as rule-playing "super-hero"-although I would argue that one plausible translation of entrepreneur from the French would involve some notion of transgression. But to consider the entrepreneur as superhero is to ignore entrepreneurship in the underground economy. And this is no small matter. The financial size of the underground economy is, the author claims, larger than major companies in the Fortune 500 or the FTSE 100. Yet such an economy is represented by academic commentators, the media, and governments "as a 'sweatshop' realm" (1). It is, nevertheless, a realm rich in social capital, which is a quality of special relevance in localities disengaged from, or only partially engaged with, the circuits of value that are inherent for material survival. And it is shaped-in part, at least-by the entrepreneurs who operate within it. Thus, in discussing their activities, this book "tarnishes, discredits and despoils the textbook ideal-type of the entrepreneur" (4).
We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies... more We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies sub-panel (H-32) for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and examine the relationships between the peer assessment of research quality that the RAE process has typified, and alternative modes of assessment based on bibliometrics. This comparison is effected using (in aggregate form) some of the results from the RAE, together with citation data gathered after completion of the RAE assessment, specifically for the purpose of this paper. We conclude that, if it continues to be necessary and desirable to assess, in some measure and however imprecisely, research quality, then peer assessment cannot be replaced by bibliometrics. Bibliometrics permit measurement of something that may be linked to quality but is essentially a different phenomenon-a measure of 'impact' , for example.
This paper describes the results of the 'Student Views of Fieldwork' project, as part of the wide... more This paper describes the results of the 'Student Views of Fieldwork' project, as part of the wider LTSN-GEES pedagogic research and fieldwork p r o g ra m m e. Research was conducted across Geogra p h y, E a rth and E nvironmental Science disciplines to examine the effect of fieldwork on students' affective domain. The project aimed to monitor changes in s t u d e n t 's attitudes to learning that occurred as a result of attending residential field courses. In addition, the changes in how students value the f i e l d w o rk ex p e rience were examined and differences in attidudes and values between different groups of students (for example age and gender) were explored.
International Journal of community currency research, 2001
Page 1. IJCCR Vol 5 (2001) Williams et al 1 of 11 The Role of the Third Sector in Paving a &a... more Page 1. IJCCR Vol 5 (2001) Williams et al 1 of 11 The Role of the Third Sector in Paving a 'Third Way': Some Lessons From Local Eexchange and Trading Schemes (LETS) in the United Kingdom ... Page 2. IJCCR Vol 5 (2001) Williams et al 2 of 11 ...
Roger Lee and Andrew Leyshon wo of the ideas that underlie the exploration of alternative economi... more Roger Lee and Andrew Leyshon wo of the ideas that underlie the exploration of alternative economic eographies in this book are the notions that (1) while all economies re irreducibly material, they are also social constructs; and that 2) the material and the social are mutually formative. This short conluding chapter attempts to draw out a number of the implications of iis relationship by reflecting on some of the major themes which merge from the substantive chapters which precede it. It does so by onsidering first, the diverse nature and practices ...
Introduction - Andrew Leyshon and Roger Lee Alternative Economic Geographies The Alterity of the ... more Introduction - Andrew Leyshon and Roger Lee Alternative Economic Geographies The Alterity of the Social Economy - Ash Amin, Angus Cameron and Ray Hudson Alternative Financial Spaces - Duncan Fuller and Andrew E G Jonas Alternative Retail Spaces - Louise Crewe, Nicky Gregson and Kate Brooks Alternative Work Spaces - Andrew Lincoln Alternative Employment Spaces - Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank Alternative Exchange Spaces - Colin C Williams, Theresa Aldridge and Jane Tooke Alternative Lifestyle Spaces - Jeffrey Jacob Conclusions - Roger Lee and Andrew Leyshon Re-Making Geographies and the Construction of 'Spaces of Hope'
... It contains about forty articles each year devoted to aspects of teaching geography and relat... more ... It contains about forty articles each year devoted to aspects of teaching geography and related ... of the quanti-tative revolution from the wider social context in which it took place. If we stand apart from societal influences, our teaching is misleading and our learning impoverished. ...
entangled parameters of social, economic and environmental justice. For instance, Wilson’s analys... more entangled parameters of social, economic and environmental justice. For instance, Wilson’s analysis takes us beyond simple dichotomies of consumeras-hedonist and consumer-as-champion-of-identity to reveal how people in Cuba variously choose between contrasting rationalities of consumption. The book thereby advances recent work on the political economic and moral geographies of consumption through the incorporation of anthropological theories of power and value, alongside additional insights from economic anthropology, the anthropology of food and the anthropology of post-socialism. With the narratives of personal experiences, participant observation and the use of conversation as data, Wilson shows how normative modalities of food production, exchange and consumption in rural Cuba reflect moral dedication and commitment to a range of different communities, circumscribed variously by the household, the neighbourhood, the nation or indeed the entire globe. In sum, Wilson’s book is a compelling study of food provisioning in rural Cuba and shows what can be achieved by bringing conceptual tools at the interface of human geography and anthropology together with the insights of sustained and sensitive on-the-ground fieldwork. It offers a lucid examination of the intersections of socialist and market systems of provisioning in a particular context, but in so doing shines light on the simultaneously moral and material bases of all economies and the multi-scalar dynamics that shape how those intersections are lived and experienced.
To be traditionally geographical for a moment, it is remarkable that people manage to live on the... more To be traditionally geographical for a moment, it is remarkable that people manage to live on the equator and in settlements located beyond 78°N and 55°S; in areas with population densities ranging from 17 000 people per square kilometre to those with only one person per 39 square kilometres; in conditions of torrential rain and in burning aridity; on the coast and as far as 2250 kilometres from the sea; below sea-level and at 5100 metres above the sea; and that they live on stable platforms and perch, more or less neurotically, upon unstable fault lines.
This is one of those intriguing books, the very subject of which necessarily raises questions abo... more This is one of those intriguing books, the very subject of which necessarily raises questions about what might be considered to be normal/abnormal, good/bad, moral/ immoral. But it also shows that such binaries are not necessarily very helpful. Its subject matter is entrepreneurship-but entrepreneurship in the underground economy. As Colin Williams points out, this is an aspect of entrepreneurship rarely addressed in the mainstream literature on the subject. This literature, he argues, represents the entrepreneur as rule-playing "super-hero"-although I would argue that one plausible translation of entrepreneur from the French would involve some notion of transgression. But to consider the entrepreneur as superhero is to ignore entrepreneurship in the underground economy. And this is no small matter. The financial size of the underground economy is, the author claims, larger than major companies in the Fortune 500 or the FTSE 100. Yet such an economy is represented by academic commentators, the media, and governments "as a 'sweatshop' realm" (1). It is, nevertheless, a realm rich in social capital, which is a quality of special relevance in localities disengaged from, or only partially engaged with, the circuits of value that are inherent for material survival. And it is shaped-in part, at least-by the entrepreneurs who operate within it. Thus, in discussing their activities, this book "tarnishes, discredits and despoils the textbook ideal-type of the entrepreneur" (4).
We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies... more We present a summary of the kinds of outputs submitted to the Geography and Environmental Studies sub-panel (H-32) for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and examine the relationships between the peer assessment of research quality that the RAE process has typified, and alternative modes of assessment based on bibliometrics. This comparison is effected using (in aggregate form) some of the results from the RAE, together with citation data gathered after completion of the RAE assessment, specifically for the purpose of this paper. We conclude that, if it continues to be necessary and desirable to assess, in some measure and however imprecisely, research quality, then peer assessment cannot be replaced by bibliometrics. Bibliometrics permit measurement of something that may be linked to quality but is essentially a different phenomenon-a measure of 'impact' , for example.
This paper describes the results of the 'Student Views of Fieldwork' project, as part of the wide... more This paper describes the results of the 'Student Views of Fieldwork' project, as part of the wider LTSN-GEES pedagogic research and fieldwork p r o g ra m m e. Research was conducted across Geogra p h y, E a rth and E nvironmental Science disciplines to examine the effect of fieldwork on students' affective domain. The project aimed to monitor changes in s t u d e n t 's attitudes to learning that occurred as a result of attending residential field courses. In addition, the changes in how students value the f i e l d w o rk ex p e rience were examined and differences in attidudes and values between different groups of students (for example age and gender) were explored.
International Journal of community currency research, 2001
Page 1. IJCCR Vol 5 (2001) Williams et al 1 of 11 The Role of the Third Sector in Paving a &a... more Page 1. IJCCR Vol 5 (2001) Williams et al 1 of 11 The Role of the Third Sector in Paving a 'Third Way': Some Lessons From Local Eexchange and Trading Schemes (LETS) in the United Kingdom ... Page 2. IJCCR Vol 5 (2001) Williams et al 2 of 11 ...
Roger Lee and Andrew Leyshon wo of the ideas that underlie the exploration of alternative economi... more Roger Lee and Andrew Leyshon wo of the ideas that underlie the exploration of alternative economic eographies in this book are the notions that (1) while all economies re irreducibly material, they are also social constructs; and that 2) the material and the social are mutually formative. This short conluding chapter attempts to draw out a number of the implications of iis relationship by reflecting on some of the major themes which merge from the substantive chapters which precede it. It does so by onsidering first, the diverse nature and practices ...
Introduction - Andrew Leyshon and Roger Lee Alternative Economic Geographies The Alterity of the ... more Introduction - Andrew Leyshon and Roger Lee Alternative Economic Geographies The Alterity of the Social Economy - Ash Amin, Angus Cameron and Ray Hudson Alternative Financial Spaces - Duncan Fuller and Andrew E G Jonas Alternative Retail Spaces - Louise Crewe, Nicky Gregson and Kate Brooks Alternative Work Spaces - Andrew Lincoln Alternative Employment Spaces - Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank Alternative Exchange Spaces - Colin C Williams, Theresa Aldridge and Jane Tooke Alternative Lifestyle Spaces - Jeffrey Jacob Conclusions - Roger Lee and Andrew Leyshon Re-Making Geographies and the Construction of 'Spaces of Hope'
... It contains about forty articles each year devoted to aspects of teaching geography and relat... more ... It contains about forty articles each year devoted to aspects of teaching geography and related ... of the quanti-tative revolution from the wider social context in which it took place. If we stand apart from societal influences, our teaching is misleading and our learning impoverished. ...
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