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Book Reviews
No full text'Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India'; Author: Robert Jenkins; Reviewer: Gurharpal Singh.; 'Hydropolitics in the Third World: Conflict and Cooperation in International River Basins'; Author: Arun P. Elhance; Reviewer: Madhusudan Bhattarai.; 'The End of the Refugee Cycle? Refugee Repatriation and Reconstruction'; Editors: Richard Black and Khalid Koser; Reviewer: Zoe Marriage.; 'Losing Place: Refugee Populations and Rural Transformations in East Africa'; Author: Johnathan Bascom; Reviewer: Zoe Marriage.; 'Environmental Assessment in Developing and Transitional Countries: Principles, Methods and Practice'; Editors: Norman Lee and Clive George; Reviewer: Fiona Nunan.; 'Smallholder Cash Crop Production under Market Liberalisation: A New Institutional Economic Perspective'; Editors: Andrew Dorward, Jonathan Kydd and Colin Poulton; Reviewer: Steve Wiggins.; 'Trade Shocks in Developing Countries: Volume l: Africa'; Authors: Paul Collier, Jan Willem Gunning and Associates; Reviewer: Alasdair I. MacBean.; 'Trade Shocks in Developing Countries: Volume 2: Asia and Latin America'; Authors: Paul Collier, Jan Willem Gunning and Associates; Reviewer: Alasdair I. MacBean.; 'The Third World beyond the Cold War: Continuity and Change'; Editors: Louise Fawcett and Yezid Sayigh; Reviewer: Nigel Harris.; 'East Asia: Recovery and Beyond'; Authors: The World Bank; Reviewer: Christopher M. Dent.;Review Books,
Seismic Velocities of the Whitestone Anorthosite and its Mylonitized Equivalents in the Parry Sound Shear Zone
No full textTitle: Seismic Velocities of the Whitestone Anorthosite and its Mylonitized Equivalents in the Parry Sound Shear Zone, Author: Arun Sen, Location: ThodeCompressional wave velocities of the Whitestone anorthosite and its mylonitic equivalent in the Parry Sound shear zone have been measured in the field and to two kilobars in a laboratory confining pressure vessel. Mylonitiztion of the anorthosite has resulted in a preferred orientation of constituent minerals and retrograde mineral assemblages. A seimic anisotropy is consequently developed in the mylonite such that the P-wave velocitites are lower for propagation directions perpendicular to mylonite than for its anorthosite protolith. In the field, rock weathering and surface fractures control velocity variations. At low confining pressure (shallow depth) the P-wave velocity anisotropy is controlled by fracturing which is in turn related to the mylonitic fabric. At approximately one kilobar pressure (depths close to five kilometres) where fractures and porosity are insignificant, the P-wave anisotropy is due solely to the aggregate mineral velocities and their solution and their orientations. The undeformed Whitestone anorthosite has an average P-wave velocity of 7.02 km/s measured in three perpendicular directions at 2 kilobars confining pressure. The mylonite has the following P-wave velocities at 2 kilobars confining pressure: 6.83 km/s parallel to both foliation and lineation, 6.70 km/s parallel to foliation and perpendicular to lineation, and 6.57 km/s perpendicular to foliation.ThesisBachelor of Science (BSc
Psychedelic White : Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race
No full text"Psychedelic White is one of the most innovative, refreshingly different analyses of race I have read in the last decade." —Elizabeth Grosz, author of The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution and the Untimely The village of Anjuna, located in the coastal Indian state of Goa, has been one of the premier destinations on the global rave scene for nearly two decades. The birthplace of Goa trance, the most psychedelic variety of electronic dance music, Anjuna first attracted adventurous Westerners in the 1970s who were drawn there by its tropical beaches, tolerant locals, and readily available drugs. Today, rave tourists travel to Goa to take part in round-the-clock dance parties and lose themselves in the crowds, the music, and the drugs. But do they really escape where they come from and who they are? A rich and theoretically sophisticated ethnography, Psychedelic White explains how race plays out in Goa’s white counterculture and grapples with how to make sense of racism when it is not supposed to be there. Goa is a site of particularly revealing forms of interracial collision, and contrary to author Arun Saldanha’s expectations that the nature of rave would create an inclusive atmosphere, he repeatedly witnessed stark segregation between white and Indian tourists. He came to understand race in its creative dimension as a shifting and fuzzy assemblage of practices, environments, sounds, and substances—dance skills, sunlight, conversation, cannabis, and tea. In doing so, his work shows how the rave scene in Goa harbors conflicting tendencies regarding race. The complicated intersection of cultures and phenotypes, Saldanha asserts, helps to consolidate whiteness. Race emerges not through rigid boundaries but rather through what he terms viscosity, the degree to which bodies gather together for pleasure and self-transformation. Challenging the prevailing conception of racial difference as a purely social construction and offering building on the works of Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Psychedelic White presents nothing less than a new materialist approach to race
