Multinational Firms’ Location and the New Economic Geography

Multinational Firms ’ Location and the New Economic Geography
Edited by Jean‐Louis Mucchielli and Thierry Mayer, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 1704. xii + 238 pp. $100.00 (Cloth). ISBN 1‐84376‐654‐X.
Reviewed by Nicholas A. Phelps
School of Geography, University of Southampton     

Reviews

Beal, Tim (2005) North Korea. The Struggle Against American Power. London/Ann Arbor, Michigan: Pluto Press, 342 pp., US$28.95, pbk, ISBN: 0 7453 2013 9.
Reviewed by Bernhard Seliger
Hanns Seidel Foundation, Seoul, South Korea.
Email: seliger@hss.or.kr Weiss, John (ed.) (2005) Poverty Targeting in Asia. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing and the Asian Development Bank Institute, 282 pp., $110, cased, ISBN: 184542123X.
Reviewed by John Egan
NZAID Manager Vietnam.
Email: john.egan@nzaid.govt.nz Dening, Greg (2004) Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures, and Self. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 376 pp., $45.00, ISBN: 0812238494.
Reviewed by Matthew Wittmann
Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Email: mwittman@umich.edu Halapua, Winston (2003) Tradition, Lotu and Militarism in Fiji. Lautoka, Fiji: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies, 202 pp., Appendix, Glossary, Bibliography, FJD18.00, pbk, ISBN: 982‐301‐021‐8.
Reviewed by Teresia Teaiwa
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: teresia.teaiwa@vuw.ac.nz     

Industrial Location Dynamics

Industrial Location Dynamics
Edited by Philip McCann, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 1702. xvii + 372 pp. $125.00 (Cloth). ISBN 1‐84064‐672‐1.
Reviewed by Roger Hayter
Simon Fraser University     

BOOK REVIEWS

TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATIONS IN AN EVOLVING WORLD
Edited by Michel Beuthe, Veli Himanen, Aura Reggiani, and Luca Zamparini, Berlin Heideberg, New York: Springer. 2004. xiv + 346 pp + 69 illus. $ US 109/hardcover. ISBN 3‐540‐00961‐2.
Reviewed byDonald G. Janelle
Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
University of California SPACES OF WORK : GLOBAL CAPITALISM AND GEOGRAPHIES OF LABOUR .
By Noel Castree, Neil M. Coe, Kevin Ward, and Michael Samers. London: Sage Publications 2004. 227 pp. $46.95 (paperback). ISBN 0‐7619‐7217‐X.
Reviewed byLydia Savage
Associate Professor of Geography and Chair
Department of Geography‐Anthropology
University of Southern Maine TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND POLICY , SELECTED ESSAYS OF PETER NIJKAMP , VOLUME 2.
Edward Elgar US. 2004. 456 pp. $135.00 (hardcover). ISBN 1‐84376‐266‐8.
Reviewed by Michael D. Meyer
Georgia Transportation Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology THE FUTURE OF EUROPE ’S RURAL PERIPHERIES
Edited by Lois Labrianidis, London: Ashgate. 2004. 334 pp. $94.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0 7546 4054 X.
Reviewed by Robert Fish
Department of Geography
University of Exeter GLOBAL CHICAGO
Edited by Charles Madigan, Champaign: University of Illinois Press. 2004. 223 pp. $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0252071964.
Reviewed by Patrick McHaffie
Department of Geography
DePaul University     

Innovation and the Growth of Cities

Innovation and the Growth of Cities
Edited by Zoltan J. Acs, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 1702. 247 pp. $100.00 (Cloth). ISBN 1‐84064‐936‐4.
Reviewed by Anneliese Vance
Department of Geography
State University of New York     

The Porter Hypothesis and the Economic Consequences of Environmental Regulation,A Neo‐Schumpetarian Approach

The Porter Hypothesis and the Economic Consequences of Environmental Regulation , A Neo ‐Schumpetarian Approach
Edited by Thomas Roediger‐Schluga, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 1704. 349 pp. $115.00 (Cloth). ISBN 1‐84376‐644‐247.
Reviewed by Cees Withagen
Department of Spatial Economics
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam     

Reviews

Anthony, Jim (2007) Sex Across the Color Line – A Neglected Topic in Pacific History: The Case of Parbhudaia aka Minnie Wilkinson and Sir Henry Scott. Lautoka: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies, Research Report No. 7, 60 pp., FJD$12, ISBN: 978 982 301 030 4.
Reviewer: Portia Richmond
Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand.
Email: Portia_richmond@yahoo.com Scheyvens, Regina and Donovan Storey (eds.) (2003) Development Fieldwork: A Practical Guide. London: Thousand Oaks and New Delhi: Sage Publications, ix, 264 pp., USD47.95, pbk, ISBN: 9780761948902.
Reviewer: Peggy Fairbairn‐Dunlop
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: peggy.fairbairn‐dunlop@vuw.ac.nz Batiwala, Srilatha and L. David Brown (eds.) (2006) Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction. Bloomfield, Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 288 pp. US $25.95, pbk, ISBN: 1‐56549‐210‐2.
Reviewer: Peter Swain
Volunteer Service Abroad, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: PSwain@vsa.org.nz Kin Wah, Chin and Leo Suryadinata (comp. and ed.) (2005) Michael Leifer Selected Works on Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS, xvii, 748 pp., illus, $US55.00, ISBN: 981‐230270‐0.
Reviewer: Nicholas Tarling
New Zealand Asia Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Email: n.tarling@auckland.au.nz Connell, John and Eric Waddell (eds.) (2007) Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia Pacific: Between Local and Global. London: Routledge, 256 pp., US$65.00, ISBN: 978‐0‐415‐40414‐3.
Reviewer: Douglas K. Bardsley
School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Email: d.bardsley@uq.edu.au     

Reviews

Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika (2008) Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, xvi, 277 pp., US$22.95, pbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐4321‐9; US$79.95, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐4338‐7.
Reviewer: Brendan Hokowhitu, Te Tumu School of Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago.
Email: brendan.hokowhitu@otago.ac.nz Li, Tani Murray (2007) The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics. Durham and London: Duke University Press, xii, 374 pp., $24.95, ISBN: 0822340275.
Reviewer: Andrew Walker, The Australian National University, Australia.
Email: andrew.walker@anu.edu.au Myoe, Maung Aung (2009) Building the Tatmadaw: Myanmar Armed Forces since 1948. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, xiv, 255 pp., $39.90, hbk, ISBN: 978‐981‐230‐848‐1.
Reviewer: Ng Sue Chia, Associate Research Fellow, Centre of Excellence for National Security, S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore.
Email: issuechiang@ntu.edu.sg Wilson, Chris (2008) Ethno‐Religious Violence in Indonesia: From Soil to God. London and New York: Routledge, 256 pp., US$170.00, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐415‐45380‐6.
Reviewer: Philip M. Fountain, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Faculties, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Email: philip.fountain@anu.edu.au Ferguson, Kathy E. and Monique Mironesco, eds (2008) Gender and Globalisation in the Asia and Pacific. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, xii, 420 pp., US $35.00, pbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8248‐3241‐4; US$69.00, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8248‐3159‐2.
Reviewer: Yvonne Underhill‐Sem, Centre for Development Studies, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Email: y.underhill‐sem@auckland.ac.nz     

Reviews

Lee, Edwin (2008) Singapore: The Unexpected Nation. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, xxii, 707 pp., US$39.90, pbk, ISBN: 978‐981‐230‐795‐8; US$49.90, hbk, ISBN: 978‐981‐230‐796‐5.
Reviewer: Michael D. Barr
Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia.
Email: michael.barr@flinders.edu.au Cramb, Robert A. (2007) Land and Longhouse: Agrarian Transformation in the Uplands of Sarawak. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 422 pp., US$45.00, pbk, ISBN‐10: 8776940101, ISBN‐13: 978‐8776940102.
Reviewer: Carol J. Pierce Colfer
CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia.
Email: c.colfer@cgiar.org Lee, Hock Guan (2008) Ageing in Southeast Asia and East Asia – Family, Social Protection and Policy Challenges. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 247 pp., US$28.50, pbk, ISBN: 9789812307651.
Reviewer: George W. Leeson
Oxford Institute of Ageing, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Email: george.leeson@ageing.ox.ac.uk Tyner, James A. (2008) The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space. Burlington, Vermont and Hampshire: Ashgate, x, 209 pp., US$99.95, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐7546‐7096‐4.
Reviewer: Melissa Marschke
School of International Development and Global Policy, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Email: mmarschk@uottawa.ca     

Reviews

Emmerson, Donald K. (ed.) (2009) Hard Choices: Security, Democracy and Regionalism in Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 398 pp., $31.88, pbk, ISBN: 9789812309143.
Reviewer: Alex Bellamy
Asia‐Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Email: a.bellamy@uq.edu.au Ivarsson, Soren (2008) Creating Laos: The Making of a Lao Space between Indochina and Siam, 1860–1945. Copenhagen: Nias Press, 238 pp., $35.43, pbk, ISBN: 9788776940232.
Reviewers: Michael Dwyer
Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Email: mdwyer@berkeley.edu
Keith Barney
Graduate Program in Geography, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Email: kbarney@yorku.ca Chong, Terence (ed.) (2008) Globalization and its Counter‐Forces in Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS, 416 pp., $38.98, pbk, ISBN: 9789812304780.
Reviewer: David Ip
Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Email: davidf.ip@inet.polyu.edu.hk     

Reviews

Greg Fry and Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, eds (2008) Intervention and State‐Building in the Pacific: The Legitimacy of ‘Cooperative Intervention’. Manchester: Manchester University Press, xvi, 246 pp., GB £55.00, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐7190‐7683‐1.
Reviewer: David Capie, International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: david.capie@vuw.ac.nz J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. (2008) Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity. Durham: Duke University Press, xvi, 241 pp., US$22.95, pbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐4079‐9; US$79.95, hbk, ISBN: 978‐0‐8223‐4058‐4.
Reviewer: Noelani Goodyear‐Ka'ōpua, Indigenous Politics, Political Science Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Email: goodyear@hawaii.edu Michael Barr and Zlatko Skrbis (2008) Constructing Singapore: Elitism, Ethnicity and the Nation‐Building Project. Copenhagen: NIAS, 304 pp., price unknown, ISBN: 978‐87‐7694‐029‐4.
Reviewer: Lily Zubaidah Rahim, Department of Government and International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Merewether, NSW, Australia.
Email: lily.rahim@sydney.edu.au Kim, Nam‐Kook (editor) (2009) Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, 184 pp., £55.00, ISBN: 978‐0‐7546‐7613‐3.
Reviewer: J.D. Kenneth Boutin, School of International and Political Studies, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia.
Email: ken.boutin@deakin.edu.au Michael Hitchcock, Victor T. King and Michael Parnwell (eds.) (2009) Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 358 pp., £50.00, hbk, ISBN 978‐87‐7694‐033‐1; pbk, ISBN 978‐87‐7694‐034‐8.
Reviewer: Professor Erik Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Email: mserik@mscc.huji.ac.il     

Reviews

Books reviewed: Heggelund, Gorild (2004) Environment and Resettlement Politics in China: The Three Gorges Project. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 276 pp., US$110.00, ISBN: 0754638596.
Reviewed by Robert A. Dayley
Department of Political Economy, Albertson College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID, USA.
Email: rdayley@albertson.edu Drummond, Lisa B.W. and Mandy Thomas (eds.) (2003) Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 248 pp., US$115.00, hbk, cloth ISBN: 0‐415‐29689‐7.
Reviewed by Phuong An Nguyen
Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund, Sweden.
Email: an_phuong.nguyen@ace.lu.se Takamasa, Akiyama and Donald F. Larson (eds.) (2004) Rural Development and Agricultural Growth in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. CanbeITa: Asia Pacific Press for the World Bank, xxv, 558 pp., US$40.00, pbk, ISBN: 0‐7315‐3786‐6.
Reviewed by R.D. Hill
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Email: rdhill@hku.hk Nicholas, Colin, Tijah Yok Chopil and Tiah Sabak (2003) Orang Asli Women and the Forest: The Impact of Resource Depletion on Gender Relations among the Semai. Subang Jaya: Center for Orang Asli Concerns, xi + 131 pp., US$12.00, ISBN: 9834004249.
Reviewed by Barbara Nowak
Development Studies, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.
Email: b.s.nowak@massey.ac.nz Fisher, Susan (2001) Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages between Japan and the West. Vancouver: The Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia, 194 pp., Cdn$24.95, ISBN: 0888657501.
Reviewed by Xiaofei Tu
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Email: xtu@syr.edu     

Reviews

Rodan, Garry (2004) Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia. London: Routledge‐Curzon, xvii, 261 pp. references, indices, £70, hbk, ISBN: 0415335825.
Reviewed by James Chin
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia.
Email: jchin@ieas.unimas.my Khai Leong, Ho (ed.) (2005) Reforming Corporate Governance in South East Asia: Economics, Politics, and Regulations. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 387 pp., US$29.90, ISBN: 981‐230‐291‐3.
Reviewed by Meidyah Indreswari
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Email: m_indres@yahoo.com     

Reviews

Robie, David (ed.), preface by Bunny McDiarmid, foreword by Walter Hadye Lini (2005) Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior (Memorial Edition). Auckland: Asia Pacific Network, xii, 170 pp., US$35, ISBN: 1 877314463.
Reviewer: Maria Bargh
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: maria.bargh@vuw.ac.nz Hitchcock, Michael and I. Nyoman Darma Putra (2007) Tourism, Development and Terrorism in Bali. Aldershot: Ashgate, 204 pp., US$99.95, ISBN: 978 0 7546 4866 6.
Reviewer: Regina Scheyvens
School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.
Email: r.a.scheyvens@massey.ac.nz     

Reviews

Ng, Kum Lin (2002) Chinese in Fiji. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, 286 pp.
Reviewer: Eugene Kumekawa
Tertiary Education Commission, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: gene.kumekawa@tec.govt.nz Robbins, Joel and Holly Wardlow (eds.) (2005) The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia: Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change. Hampshire: Ashgate, xiv, 246 pp., £47.50, hbk.
Reviewer: Ralph Pettman
University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Email: rpettman@unimelb.edu.au Pholsena, Vatthana (2006) Post‐war Laos: The Politics of Culture, History and Identity. Singapore: ISEAS, 254 pp., $US22.95, pbk, ISBN: 981‐230‐355‐3.
Reviewer: Richard B. Verrone
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Email: richard.verrone@ttu.edu     

Reviews

Ballard, Chris, Paula Brown, R. Michael Bourke and Tracy Harwood (eds.) (2005) The Sweet Potato in Oceania: A Reappraisal. Ethnology Monograph 19 (University of Pittsburgh), Oceania Monograph 56 (University of Sydney), viii + 227 pp., US$56.00, pbk, ISBN: 0 945428 13 8.
Reviewed by Janet Davidson
Honorary Research Associate, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: Janet.Davidson@University‐of‐Ngakuta.ac.nz Boomgaard, Peter, David Henley and Manon Osseweijer (eds.) (2005) Muddied Waters, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island South East Asia. Leiden: KITLV Press, 418 pp., US$35.00, ISBN 90 6718 243 5.
Reviewed by Michael Roche
School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Email: M.M.Roche@massey.ac.nz McMillan, Richard (2005) The British Occupation of Indonesia 1945‐1946: Britain, the Netherlands, and the Indonesia Revolution [Royal Asiatic Society Books]. London: Routledge, 248 pp., US$115.00, ISBN 978‐0415355513.
Reviewed by Laura M. Calkins
Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA.
Email: laura.calkins@ttu.edu     

Book Reviews

Earthly Politics : Local and Global in Environmental Governance
Edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Long Martello, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. x + 356 pp. $27.00 (paperback). ISBN 0‐262‐60059‐5
Reviewed by Dean M. Hanink
Department of Geography
University of Connecticut Roy , John R. Spatial Interaction Modelling : A Regional Science Context
Series: Advances in Spatial Science, Springer. 2004, X, 239 p. 7 illus., ISBN: 3‐540‐20528‐4
Reviewed by Morton E. O’Kelly
Department of Geography
The Ohio State University Anthony Downs , ed . 2004. Growth Management and Affordable Housing : Do They Conflict ? Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 290 pp. ISBN 0‐1857‐19337.
Reviewed by Michael L. Lahr
Associate Research Professor
Center for Urban Policy Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey     

Book Reviews

Family , Household and Work
Edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann and Michael Vogler, Berlin: Springer‐Verlag. 2003. xiv + 427 pp. $99.00/£53.00 (hardcover). ISBN 3‐540‐00360‐6
Reviewed by John F. Watkins
Graduate Center for Gerontology
University of Kentucky The Global Internet Economy
Edited by Bruce Kogut, Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. 2004. 520 pp. $24.00 (paper) ISBN 0‐262‐61204‐6
Reviewed by Sharon C. Cobb
Department of Economics and Geography
University of North Florida Globalizing L.A.: Trade , Infrastructure and Regional Development
Steven P. Erie, Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2004. 336 pp. ISBN 0‐804‐74681‐8
Reviewed by John Gulick
Department of Sociology
University of Tennessee
Knoxville Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States
Edited by Harry W. Richardson and Chang‐Hee Christine Bae, England: Ashgate. 2004. 342 pp. $89.95 ISBN 0‐7546‐3789‐1
Reviewed by Richard P. Greene
Department of Geography
Northern Illinois University     

Reviews

Michaud, Jean (2007) ‘Incidental’ Ethnographers: French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin‐Yunnan Frontier, 1880–1930. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 279 pp., US$155.00, hbk, ISBN: 978‐9004139961.
Reviewer: Steeve Daviau
Département d'anthropologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
Email: daviausteeve@gmail.com Lee, Grace and Malcolm Warner (2007) The Political Economy of the SARS Epidemic: The Impact on Human Resources in East Asia. Milton Park and New York: Routledge, 192 pp., US$150.00, ISBN: 978‐0415394987.
Reviewer: Rochelle Stewart‐Withers
School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (presently School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia).
Email: r.stewartwithers@uq.edu.au     

Review

Leckie, Jacqueline (2007) Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 204 pp., NZD49.95; ISBN: 9781877372506.
Reviewer: Amanda Gilbertson
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Email: gilbertson.amanda@gmail.com