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The Caesura: remarks on Wittgenstein's interruption of theory, or, why practices elude explanation (2002)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2002). The Caesura: remarks on Wittgenstein's interruption of theory, or, why practices elude explanation. Geoforum, 33(4), 487-503. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7185%2802%2900032-5

This paper aims to bring the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein into contact with the growing interest and concerns over the status of practice, performance and non-representational ‘theory’ within human geography. Drawing predominantly on Wittgenstein’s la... Read More about The Caesura: remarks on Wittgenstein's interruption of theory, or, why practices elude explanation.

Political cultures, health systems and health policy (2002)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2002). Political cultures, health systems and health policy. Social Science & Medicine, 55(1), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536%2801%2900213-1

Policies for restructuring national health systems in low- and middle-income countries tend to follow similar packages of prescriptions along the lines of those discussed in the World Development Report of 1993. An ubiquitous reform measure is that o... Read More about Political cultures, health systems and health policy.

Governing climate change: the politics of risk society? (2001)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H. (2001). Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 26(4), 430-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00033

This paper examines how the politics of climate change have taken shape within Australia through the construction and contestation of concepts of obligation and responsibility. Beck's risk society thesis offers a conceptual starting point from which... Read More about Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?.

Geography, culture and global change. (2001)
Book Chapter
McEwan, C. (2001). Geography, culture and global change. In P. Daniels, M. Bradshaw, D. Shaw, & J. Sidaway (Eds.), Human Geography Issues for the 21st Century (154-179)

Agriculture Negotiations at the WTO: Context Setting and Intelligence Report February-April 2001 (2001)
Report
Baldwin, W. (2001). Agriculture Negotiations at the WTO: Context Setting and Intelligence Report February-April 2001. [No known commissioning body]

This report constitutes the last of a three-part series detailing the developments in the agriculture trade negotiations currently underway at the World Trade Organisation. Building upon the first two reports in the series, the present report examine... Read More about Agriculture Negotiations at the WTO: Context Setting and Intelligence Report February-April 2001.

Gender and citizenship: learning from South Africa. (2001)
Journal Article
McEwan, C. (2001). Gender and citizenship: learning from South Africa. Agenda, 16(47), 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2001.9675931

CHERYL MCEWAN argues that there is an urgent need for a critical examination of the nature of citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa particularly in terms of black women's experiences. She writes that African women's understandings and experience... Read More about Gender and citizenship: learning from South Africa..

Going down to the local: incorporating social organisation and political culture into assessments of decentralised health care (2000)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S., Medeiros, R., Oliveira, P., & Almeida, R. (2000). Going down to the local: incorporating social organisation and political culture into assessments of decentralised health care. Social Science & Medicine, 51(4), 619-636. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0277-9536%2800%2900005-8

The social organisation and political culture of the society in which an organisation is embedded can have major effects on the way in which organisational policy is implemented and on how that organisation functions. Research on health sector reform... Read More about Going down to the local: incorporating social organisation and political culture into assessments of decentralised health care.

Matavén Selva Corazon de la Salud (2000)
Book
Lobo-Guerrero, M., Luque-Ayala, A., Herrera, X., & de Greiff, J. (Eds.). Matavén Selva Corazon de la Salud. Fundación Etnollano / Prorama COAMA / Union Europea

Post-development carbon
Book Chapter
Luque-Ayala, A. Post-development carbon. In A. Luque-Ayala, S. Marvin, & H. Bulkeley (Eds.), Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City (224-241). Routledge