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Planning Governance of Climate Change . (2009)
Book Chapter
Bulkeley, H. (2009). Planning Governance of Climate Change . In S. Davoudi, J. Crawford, & A. Mehmood (Eds.), Planning for Climate Change Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners. Earthscan

Consumer credit, self-discipline, and risk management. (2009)
Book Chapter
Langley, P. (2009). Consumer credit, self-discipline, and risk management. In G. Clark, A. Dixon, & A. Monk (Eds.), Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local (280-300). Oxford University Press

Social and Cultural Geography: Subaltern. (2009)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2009). Social and Cultural Geography: Subaltern. In R. Kitchin, & N. Thurift (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (59-64). Elsevier

Ethnoscaping Canada's Boreal Forest: liberal whiteness and its disaffiliation from colonial space (2009)
Journal Article
Baldwin, W. (2009). Ethnoscaping Canada's Boreal Forest: liberal whiteness and its disaffiliation from colonial space. The Canadian Geographer, 53(4), 427-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00260.x

This essay examines the construction of Canada's boreal forest from the point of view of critical whiteness studies. Through an evaluation of two texts—a film and a book—produced in conjunction with a 2003–2004 environmental campaign, it argues that... Read More about Ethnoscaping Canada's Boreal Forest: liberal whiteness and its disaffiliation from colonial space.

Measuring Fatness, Governing Bodies: The Spatialities of the Body Mass Index(BMI) in Anti-Obesity Politics (2009)
Journal Article
Evans, B., & Colls, R. (2009). Measuring Fatness, Governing Bodies: The Spatialities of the Body Mass Index(BMI) in Anti-Obesity Politics. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 41(5), 1051-1083. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00706.x

The Body Mass Index (BMI) is the dominant means of defining and diagnosing obesity in national and international public health policy. This paper draws on geographical engagements with Foucault's work on biopower and governmentality to question the p... Read More about Measuring Fatness, Governing Bodies: The Spatialities of the Body Mass Index(BMI) in Anti-Obesity Politics.

The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry (2009)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2009). The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry. Journal of Rural Studies, 25(3), 255-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.03.001

Despite recent critical analyses of the nature and impacts of social and environmental certification, the increasingly complex landscape of voluntary, industry and third-party codes and certification processes that have emerged in specific sectors is... Read More about The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry.

Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry (2009)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2009). Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry. Third World Quarterly, 30(4), 723-742. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590902867144

How ethical trade develops in specific ways in particular national-institutional and historical contexts remains largely unexamined. This paper analyses approaches to ethical trade in the South African wine industry through a case study of the Wine a... Read More about Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry.

Explanatory models of influences on the construction and expression of user satisfaction (2009)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., & Medeiros, R. (2009). Explanatory models of influences on the construction and expression of user satisfaction. Social Science & Medicine, 68(11), 2089-2096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.03.042

The paper asks why high levels of expressed satisfaction are recorded in settings where health care provision is manifestly inadequate. Qualitative interviews with 30 women aged 25–60 years from a rural district health system of Northeast Brazil were... Read More about Explanatory models of influences on the construction and expression of user satisfaction.