Race and Gender in the Limits of Place-based Politics

Roxann Prazniak examines the work of the Martha E. Forrester Council of Women in Farmville, Virginia, from 1920 to 2001 in the context of women's political spaces and the limits of place-based politics. Development (2002) 45, 121–125. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1110330

Evaluation of iron in the steam plant wastewater treatment facility effluent

Elevated Fe concentrations in the Y-12 SPWTF effluent primarily result from carryover of solids from the clarifier to the F-2 tank, the F-2 tank to the effluent line, and possibly from solids that collect the effluent line. An upgrade involving filtration equipment will improve the reliability of control over Fe removal. Recommendations are given for improving operating efficiency

Remaking place : the social construction of a geographical indication for Feni

A range of social movements mobilise around and seek to valorise ‘place-based’ imageries. There is, these movements argue, vitality in place. As anthropologists remind us, people continue to construct some form of boundaries around place, however permeable and transient those boundaries might be. In the context of global agrifood, a diversity of socially generated marks indicating conditions of origin have emerged that seek to speak to a range of moral economies. Within this constellation, Geographical Indication (GI) appears as a remarkable place-based intellectual property which the author appreciates as the juridical reification of a place-based stabilisation of cultural norms. However, rather than idealise GIs, the paper also probes a ‘politics in place’ through a fieldwork-based study of a recently acquired GI for Feni, a liquor distilled from either coconut or cashew apples. Juxtaposing observations of Feni distilling with the specifications that constitute the GI, the paper explains these differences in terms of the local social relations of power. The Goa government aligned itself with the recently established Feni Association, composed mainly of large distillers with bottling operations, to acquire the GI and was successful because of the complicity of the GI Registry office