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Geography & Human Rights Bibliographic Database The following bibliography will be updated regularly to include new submissions. To search, please use ‘Ctrl F’ to enter terms. Where the Grass is Greener: Geographical Perspectives on Inequality Smith, David M. 1979 Journal Name: Croom Helm Volume: Issue: Pages: Source Type: Book Website: http://books.google.com/books?id=RlgrAAAAMAAJ&q=Where+the+Grass+is+Greener:+Geographical+Perspectives+on+In equality&dq=Where+the+Grass+is+Greener:+Geographical+Perspectives+on+Inequality&ei=5JOkSNS7O4X2iwHzn4jtAw&p Abstract Unavailable Racial inequality in federal housing programs: a welfare geography approach Patterson, J.G. 1979 Journal Name: Southeastern Geographer Volume: 19 Issue: 2 Pages: 114‐126 Source Type: Journal Article Website: Abstract Six federally subsidized housing programs are evaluated as to the housing subsidies they provided white and minority households in Jacksonville, Florida. The housing subsidy is divided into its spatial and aspatial parts, the locational subsidy and the housing structure subsidy. The housing structure subsidy is assumed to be identical within any housing program. Principal components analysis of twenty selected variables and a component weighting technique are used to derive surrogate measures for the locational subsidies of census tracts. Subsidized minority households consistently received lower locational subsidies than subsidized white households in all six housing programs. Minority households did receive higher locational subsidies in all the programs when they were located in census tracts dominated by white, as opposed to black, households. The Geography of Peace and War Pepper, David; Alan Jenkins 1985 Journal Name: Blackwell Volume: Issue: Pages: Source Type: Book Website: http://books.google.com/books?id=v59fHAAACAAJ&dq=The+Geography+of+Peace+and+War.&ei=V3zGSMzpMInWjgGihs nsDQ Abstract Race and Racism: Essays in Social Geography Jackson, Peter; ed. 1987 Journal Name: Routledge Volume: Issue: Pages: Source Type: Book Website: http://books.google.com/books?id=xQVNPSDRzT8C Abstract Racism is not confined to the beliefs of a few bigoted individuals who simply do not know any better. It is a set of interrelated ideologies and practices that have grave material effects, severely affecting black people’s life‐chances and threatening their present and future wellbeing. Racism is deeply rooted in British society’s unequal power structure and is perpetuated from day to day by the intended and unintended consequences of institutional policies and practices. Institutional racism is in turn sustained by the false representations of ‘common‐sense’ racism and media stereotypes. Challenging racism, as this book seeks to do, therefore involves a range of complex and interacting issues. We should begin though, as Kevin Brown argued in an earlier collection of essays on the social geography of ethnic segregation (Jackson & Smith 1981), by recognizing that: “White academics with an interest in race must relinquish their self‐appointed role as the ‘translators’ of black cultures, in favour of analyses of white society, i.e. of racism” (Brown 1981, p. 198). A positive response to Kevin Brown’s challenge involves a reappraisal of the academic and political significance of the concept of ‘race’ and of the ‘race relations’ industry in general. It suggests that geographers have paid too little attention to work in other branches of the social sciences, particularly concerning the radical critique of ‘race relations’ research. But, conversely, it suggests also that there are important territorial dimensions to the study of ‘race’ that make the geography of racism an important and relatively neglected field. In keeping with debates in other areas of human geography and social theory (e.g. Gregory & Urry 1985), this suggests that we need both to broaden our intellectual horizons to encompass a wider range of social‐science perspectives while at the same time injecting a more adequately theorized conception of space and place into the general social‐science literature on ‘race’ and racism. Subsistence use area mapping in ten Kotzebue Sound communities Schroeder, R.; Anderson, D. B.; Hildreth, G. 1987 Journal Name: Alaska Department of Fish and Game Volume: Issue: Pages: Source Type: Other Website: Abstract Unavailable Economic and Political Explanations of Human Rights Violations Mitchell, Neil J.; James M. McCormick 1988 Journal Name: World Politics Volume: 40 Issue: 4 Pages: 476‐498 Source Type: Journal Article Website: Abstract This research note aims to measure human rights conditions crossnationally and to account for variations in these conditions. The measure conceptualizes human rights along two dimensions: the imprisonment of political dissidents, and the killing and torture of prisoners. The authors apply these measures to 122 countries and attempt to account for variations in terms of several well‐known economic and political hypotheses. Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement Dowty, Alan 1989 Journal Name: Yale University Press, London, UK Volume: Issue: Pages: Source Type: Book Website: http://books.google.com/books?id=6bVxH12Q7SQC Abstract Unavailable Defending apartheid: Armscor and the geography of military production in South Africa Rogerson, C. M. 1990 Journal Name: GeoJournal Volume: 22 Issue: 3 Pages: 241‐250 Source Type: Journal Article Website: http://www.springerlink.com/content/m1n447n6432p11r1/ Abstract Militarisation in South Africa is examined through a study of the development, organization and geography of military production. The rise of Armscor as a significant military‐industrial enterprise is disclosed at the heart of the post‐1960 growth of armaments production in South Africa. Despite intensifying arms embargoes, military industrialization in South Africa has attained a degree of self‐sufficiency. Military production is analysed as a powerful implicit spatial policy shaping the South African space economy favouring in particular the development of the core metropolitan areas, most importantly the Johannesburg‐Pretoria axis. Hydroelectric Dams on Brazil’s Xingu River and Indigenous Peoples De Santos, O.; Leinad Ayer; Lucia M.M. de Andrade, eds. 1990 Journal Name: Cultural Survival, Inc. Volume: Issue: Pages: Source Type: Book Website: http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/Bib/B06‐AshtonBryan.pdf Abstract This collection of essays presents a rather diverse discussion of the environmental, social, political and economic impacts of hydroelectric projects on indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon, specifically with regards their effects on seven indigenous groups who reside in the Xingu River Basin. The book was put forth as part of a campaign by the Pro‐Indian Commission of Sao Paulo to reevaluate the hydroelectrics sector of Brazil’s energy program and to search for alternatives. Essays include discussions of the extent of the proposed “Altamira Hydroelectric Complex,” its financial, social and ecological repercussions, an evaluation of the Brazilian energy policy, environmental impacts of the Xingu dams, and case‐by‐case studies of the situations facing individual indigenous groups residing in the area. One major contribution of the volume is its critical examination of the ways “environmentalist discourse” has been incorporated into representations of the dam project in the media and by the State, both of whom give superficial attention to “ecological” questions but do little to actually address the social and environmental destruction that results from large‐scale development projects. Included are several examples of advertisements put forth by the Ministry of Energy and state subsidiaries that serve to illustrate how projects are given an “environmentally‐friendly” spin. The African Refugee Crisis in Context Kenzer, Martin S. 1991 Journal Name: Canadian Geographer Volume: 35 Issue: 2 Pages: 197‐202 Source Type: Journal Article Website: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119842084/abstract Abstract Unavailable The Political Geography of Conflict and Peace Kliot, Nurit; Stanley Waterman, eds. 1991 Journal Name: Belhaven Press Volume: Issue: Pages: Source Type: Book Website: http://books.google.com/books?id=QDNYAAAACAAJ&dq=The+Political+Geography+of+Conflict+and+Peace&ei=anvGSJX4 GZ6ujgHdo‐ztDQ Abstract Papers from an International Conference on Geography, War and Peace, held at the University of Haifa in Jan. 1989 and sponsored by the Commission on the World Political Map of the International Geographical Union. Human Rights and Statistics: Getting the Record Straight Jabine, Thomas B.; Richard Pierre Claude 1992 Journal Name: University of Pennsylvania Press Volume: Issue: Pages: Source Type: Book Website: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=23553150 Abstract The objective of this volume is to explore the possibilities for improving the analysis of global human rights with the assistance of statistical and other quantitative tools. The application of such methods is not limited to scholarly or scientific pursuits; it can also help to strengthen governmental policy making, advocacy, and education. The challenge of promoting better methods for assessing human rights is one which should be shared by all persons and all professions concerned with building a more humane international community. Participatory land use planning for natural resource management in Northern Thailand Tan‐Kim‐Yong, U. 1992 Journal Name: Rural Dev. For. Netw. Pap. 14b. Volume: Issue: Pages: 25 Source Type: Journal