Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century by Giovanni Arrighi

Sociolog

Nancy Plankey-Videla: We Are in This Dance Together: Gender, Power, and Globalization at a Mexican Garment Firm

Sociolog

Sexual Harassment: The Global and the Local

Sociolog

Local Players in Global Games: The Strategic Constitution of a Multinational Corporation by Peer Hull Kristensen and Jonathan Zeitlin

Sociolog

Citizenship; Freedom; Status

Sociolog

Review of J.C. Sharman, The Money Laundry: Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy

Sociolog

Decadal vegetation succession along a chronosequence within Eucalyptus obliqua wet forest, southern Tasmania

Southern Tasmania is home to fire dependent mixed forests, which, if not maintained, will eventually be replaced by the rainforest understorey. Wet eucalypt forest succession after disturbance events was investigated through floristic and vertical measurements of four north facing chronosequence plots with labels describing the age class of each, from regrowth to mature sites. This study was possible due to the establishment of permanent 50m x 50m plots in 2007 for longitudinal monitoring and subsequent illustration of forest dynamics following disturbance, including clearfell burns and wildfire. The contents of this report are the comparative analyses of the findings from the first two installments of the methods, which were employed ten years apart. The implications of this research include evidence for the protection of carbon dense old growth forests and the production of an empirical successional model by which human-induced landscape treatments can be fashioned after. This project is one of the first of its kind in the country of Australia, as it will ultimately produce experiential data of wet eucalypt succession in real time. The collected data described no significant floristic change over one decade. More time must be allocated to the decadal interval studies before such change will be evident as forest succession occurs on the scale of centuries. In the same time span, substantial structural change was described by the findings for individual species within each plot. These variations over time were consistent with Clement’s classical successional theory and Gilbert’s climax vegetation progression

The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest by Wendy Nelson Espeland

Sociolog

The Economic Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg

Sociolog