Outputs (23)

Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make? (2012)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., & Banister, E. (2012). Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make?. In S. Coen, & E. Banister (Eds.), What a Difference Sex and Gender Make: A Gender, Sex and Health Research Casebook. CIHR Institute of Gender and Health

In this collection, you will find examples from a diversity of disciplines and health foci where accounting for sex and gender in health research has advanced what we know, improved how we do research and made the products of health research more use... Read More about Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make?.

What do we mean by wet? Geoarchaeology and the reconstruction of water availability (2012)
Journal Article
Jones, M. D. (2013). What do we mean by wet? Geoarchaeology and the reconstruction of water availability. Quaternary International, 308-309, 76-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.12.015

Geoarchaeology has a key role to play in the human-climate-environment debate, including research into the controls and variability of water availability. However its interdisciplinarity can cause complications as well as advantages and leads to conf... Read More about What do we mean by wet? Geoarchaeology and the reconstruction of water availability.

Financial business education: The remaking of gendered investment banking subjects in the (post-crisis) City of London (2012)
Journal Article
Hall, S., & Appleyard, L. (2012). Financial business education: The remaking of gendered investment banking subjects in the (post-crisis) City of London. Journal of Cultural Economy, 5(4), 457-472. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2012.691894

In this paper, we reveal the neglected role of business education in legitimizing and performing gendered discourses in financial services work in London's financial district. In particular, by combining research on gendered subjectivities in elite l... Read More about Financial business education: The remaking of gendered investment banking subjects in the (post-crisis) City of London.

Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923) (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923). Modern Asian Studies, 46(6), https://doi.org/10.1017/+S0026749X11000503

This paper explores the regulation of prostitution in colonial India between the abolition of the Indian Contagious Diseases Act in 1888 and the passing of the first Suppression of Immoral Traffic Act in 1923. It challenges the commonly held assumpti... Read More about Stimulation, segregation and scandal: geographies of prostitution regulation in British India, between Registration (1888) and Suppression (1923).

Multiproxy evidence for abrupt climate change impacts on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal, central Asia (2012)
Journal Article
Mackay, A. W., Bezrukova, E. V., Boyle, J. F., Holmes, J. A., Panizzo, V. N., Piotrowska, N., …White, D. (2013). Multiproxy evidence for abrupt climate change impacts on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal, central Asia. Quaternary International, 290-291, 46-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2012.09.031

A palaeolimnological study of Lake Khall was undertaken to reconstruct impacts from five thousand years of climate change and human activity in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal. Taiga biome dominated regional landscapes, although significant composi... Read More about Multiproxy evidence for abrupt climate change impacts on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems in the Ol'khon region of Lake Baikal, central Asia.

Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter δ 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Mackay, A. W., Leng, M. J., Rioual, P., Panizzo, V. N., Lu, H., …Kendrick, C. P. (2013). Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter δ 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China. Organic Geochemistry, 54, 62-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.09.010

Carbon isotope ratio (δ 13 C org ) values of organic matter in lake sediments are commonly used to reconstruct environmental change, but the factors which influence change are varied and complex. Here we report δ 13 C values for sediments from Erlong... Read More about Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter δ 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China.

The island–mainland species turnover relationship (2012)
Journal Article
Stuart, Y. E., Losos, J. B., & Algar, A. C. (2012). The island–mainland species turnover relationship. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1744), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0816

Many oceanic islands are notable for their high endemism, suggesting that islands may promote unique assembly processes. However, mainland assemblages sometimes harbour comparable levels of endemism, suggesting that island biotas may not be as unique... Read More about The island–mainland species turnover relationship.

'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities (2012)
Journal Article
Legg, S. (2012). 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities. Leiden Journal of International Law, 25(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156512000325

This paper will address an often-neglected agenda of the much-derided League of Nations: its ‘social’ and ‘technical’ works. These targeted human security through regulating different forms of international mobility, including the fight against traff... Read More about 'The life of individuals as well as of nations': international law and the League of Nations' anti-trafficking governmentalities.

Making space for markets in economic geography (2012)
Journal Article
Hall, S. (2012). Making space for markets in economic geography. Dialogues in Human Geography, 2(2), 142-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820612449311

In this commentary, I respond to Peck's (2012) call to position markets as central conceptual, methodological and political research objects within economic geography. In particular, I suggest that cultural economy work on market devices and market a... Read More about Making space for markets in economic geography.

Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market (2012)
Journal Article
Beaverstock, J. V., & Hall, S. (2012). Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5(2), 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rss005

The City of London's competitiveness is founded on its global talent pool and ability to attract and retain workers of all nationalities. Drawing on ONS Long-Term International Migration data and fieldwork-based studies of banking, professional servi... Read More about Competing for talent: Global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market.