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VOLUME CONTENTS NUMBER 1 EDITORIAL C. Hamnett Contemporary human geography: fiddling while Rome burns? CRITICAL REVIEWS N. Gregson Discipline games, disciplinary games and the need for a post- disciplinary practice: responses to Nigel Thrift’s ‘The future of geography’ R. Ferguson Publication practices in physical and human geography: a comment on Nigel Thrift’s ‘The future of geography’ F. Reitsma A response to simplifying complexity S.M. Manson Epistemological possibilities and imperatives of complexity research: a reply to Reitsma PAPERS P. Cloke, P. Milbourne and R. Widdowfield The complex mobilities of homeless people in rurai England M. Raco Assessing the discourses and practices of urban regeneration in a growing region A. Martin On knowing what trees to plant: local and expert perspectives in the Western Ghats of Karnataka F. Pavri and S. Deshmukh Institutional efficacy in resource management: temporally congruent embeddedness for forest systems of western India J. Post and M. Snel The impact of decentralised forest management on charcoal produc- tion practices in Eastern Senegal I.M. Aprioku Oil-spill disasters and the rural hazardscape of Eastern Nigeria R. Tomlinson The Local Economic Development mirage in South Africa G. Visser Gay men, leisure space and South African cities: the case of Cape Town NUMBER 2 EDITORIAL S. Whatmore From Banana wars to Black Sigatoka. Another case for a more-than- human geography CRITICAL REVIEWS J. Shaw, W. Walton and J. Farrington Assessing the potential for a ‘railway renaissance’ in Great Britain R. Johnston, L. Hepple, T. Hoare, Contemporary fiddling in human geography while Rome burns: has K. Jones and P. Plummer quantitative analysis been largely abandoned—and should it be? C. Hamnett 163 Response to Johnston et al., ‘Contemporary fiddling in human geography while Rome burns: has quantitative analysis been largely abandoned—and should it be?’ BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE STATE GUEST EDITORIAL G. Bridge, P. McManus and T. Marsden The next new thing? Biotechnology and its discontents M. Flitner Genetic geographies. A historical comparison of agrarian modernization and eugenic thought in Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States T. MacMillan Tales of power in biotechnology regulation: the EU ban on BST K. McAfee Neoliberalism on the molecular scale. Economic and genetic reductionism in biotechnology battles U. Brand and C. Gorg The state and the regulation of biodiversity. International biopolitics and the case of Mexico PAPERS O. Valins Defending identities or segregating communities? Faith-based schooling and the UK Jewish community H. Watkins and D. Herbert Cultural policy and place promotion: Swansea and Dylan Thomas M.W. Skinner, A.E. Joseph and R.G. Kuhn Social and environmental regulation in rural China: bringing the changing role of local government into focus NUMBER 3 EDITORIAL N. Castree Reclaiming pedagogy J. Murdoch Geography’s circle of concern PAPERS M.W. Wright Factory daughters and Chinese modernity: a case from Dongguan A. Nayak ‘Through children’s eyes’: childhood, place and the fear of crime P. Meth Rethinking the ‘domus’ in domestic violence: homelessness, space and domestic violence in South Africa B. Mansfield From catfish to organic fish: making distinctions about nature as cultural economic practice R. Cowell Substitution and scalar politics: negotiating environmental compen- sation in Cardiff Bay K.J. Bakker From public to private to ... mutual? Restructuring water supply governance in England and Wales R. Buergin Shifting frames for local people and forests in a global heritage: the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary in the context of Thailand’s globalization and modernization D. Crouch and G. Parker ‘Digging-up’ Utopia? Space, practice and land use heritage NUMBER 4 EDITORIAL G. Davies 409 A geography of monsters? S. Christopherson 413 The limits to “New Regionalism” (Re)Learning from the media industries NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA C. Mercer, G. Mohan and M. Power 417 Editorial: New perspectives on the politics of development in Africa C. Mercer, G. Mohan and M. Power 419 Towards a critical political geography of African development K. Manzo 437 Africa in the rise of rights-based development M. Millstein, S. Oldfield and K. Stokke 457 uTshani BuyaKhuluma—The Grass Speaks: the political space and capacity of the South African Homeless People’s Federation C. McEwan 469 ‘Bringing government to the people’: women, local governance and community participation in South Africa B. Page 483 Communities as the agents of commodification: The Kumbo Water Authority in Northwest Cameroon PAPERS J. Forrest, M. Poulsen and R. Johnston Everywhere different? Globalisation and the impact of international migration on Sydney and Melbourne G. Drake ‘This place gives me space’: place and creativity in the creative industries A. Nightingale Nature—society and development: social, cultural and ecological change in Nepal G. Fondahi and A. Sirina Working borders and shifting identities in the Russian Far North Contents of Volume 34 (2003) Author Index