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Reviews / Comptes rendus Smith address some of the challenges of working with and applying TK in research and management. Smith raises important points regarding the funding and direction given to biologists and other practitioners who are willing to engage in TK. At this point and elsewhere on the CD, Kuptana provides a nice complement to the discussion by urging for the recognition of TK and continued effort towards this end, not only in science, but also as it applies to national and international law. Tapsell and Crapeau tie up the core part of the CD by providing an example of TK/science relations as they played out in the development of the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories. The rest of the CD is not as well structured and the listener hops through short (one to seven minute) recordings from the above speakers and others. Although the CD editors did a good job selecting meaningful sound bites, ninety seconds each from George Wenzel and Jacques Chevalier left me wishing for more as their comments provided interesting ways to think about the information presented in the other CD tracks. For example, Wenzel's point about the flexibility of knowledge systems and Chevalier's suggestion that we replace 'knowledge systems' with 'learning systems' were two important themes that could have been given more consideration on the CD (perhaps available space on the CD is to blame?). Questions from the audience also complemented the CD, but after the question on Track 17 was posited, the listener is not informed as to who provided the answer. The quality of the CD recording is very good, the audio is clear except for a few minutes of slight 'buzzing' on Track 5. The presence of the CD narrator wanes in the later tracks of the CD and the abrupt ending after the last track (a bit of a disappointment after such a creative beginning) could benefit from a conclusion or closing comment. The editing of clips is well done, but the lack of narrator and seemingly random track organisation in the last third of the CD is somewhat confusing. On the whole, this is a useful way to report on a conference, the purpose of which was set out in the introductory track of the CD. Overall, the CD offers the listener a good sense of what was discussed at the conference and important issues at stake. The audio format is an accessible way to catch the highlights of a missed meeting or seminar. Alternative ways of presenting research and information are becoming more popular as CD and

Relations between Traditional Knowledge and Western Science an audio CD of a Northern Forum, sponsored in part by the NSERC Northern Chair at Carleton University, Dr. Chris Burn, and published by the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, 2003, Cdn$10. Dr. Chris Burn and his co-sponsors offer an interesting twist on documenting and publishing conference proceedings. The audio CD, 'Relations between Traditional Knowledge and Western Science' strings together recordings from a conference held in spring of 2003 at Carleton University where 'northerners and scientists got together to discuss their relationship and approaches to knowledge' (Track 1 on CD). The conference participants were well known in their fields, and the CD highlights some of their important statements on key issues such as collaborative research and the integration of traditional knowledge (TK) and science. The CD opens with gentle acoustic guitar music. The narrator, who speaks clearly and at a comfortable pace, explains the basis of the conference and how a CD will be the venue used to report on the conference. From here, the CD is divided into two major parts. The first three tracks (approximately eleven minutes each) feature excerpts from talks given by Julie Cruikshank and Alestine Andre (Session 1: Traditional Knowledge from Stories); Peter Usher, Barney Smith and Rosemarie Kuptana (Session 2: Traditional Knowledge from Observation); and Mary Tapsell and Rachel Crapeau (Session 3: Integrating Traditional Knowledge and Western Science in Public Decision Making). The remainder of the CD moves between additional comments recorded from the above speakers, from other academics and questions fielded from the audience. The first section of the CD is informative and well edited. The narrator helps navigate the listener through the first three formal sessions of the conference, summarising points, linking the session topics and speakers and providing context for the excerpts, presumably based on the complete presentations. Cruikshank provides compelling testimony about the importance of context for understanding TK, drawing on her work collecting stories in the Yukon. Andre supports the importance of stories and context in TK, offering examples from her own Gwich'in community. Usher and
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Harvard University Paris, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey, Routledge, New York and London, 2003, xi+372 pp., cloth Cdn$45.00, US$30.00 (ISBN 0-415-94421-X) David Harvey's still massively impressive and important Limits to Capital(1982) has its roots (as he says in the introduction to that book) in his desire to come to terms with the transformation of Paris between the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 and the Commune of 1871. Knowing that a geographical theory of capital circulation and capitalist production would be vital to understanding Second Empire Paris and its specific geographic configurations, Harvey set out to integrate a spatialised Marxism with a closely observed historical geography of Parisian urban transformation. He failed. What resulted instead was Limits on the one hand and two books of essays on capitalism and urbanism in Paris on the other (Harvey 1985a, 1985b), and his admission that he found it exceptionally difficult to integrate the two. Paris, The Capital of Modernity, finally, is his integration. But, it is a lot more than that. It is, often directly, an answer to his critics not only of Limits but also of his later Condition of Postmodernity (Harvey 1989). It is also a brilliant synoptic historical geography of the Second Empire coupled with a close reading of the Empire's pre-history in the work of Balzac, the dreams of Utopia that shaped the sensibilities of both its architects and its adversaries, its denoument in the Commune and its apotheosis in the Basilica Sacre Couer. Readers of Harvey's work over the course of his career will find much that is familiar here. The heart of the book is a rewriting of his essays of 1985, the coda is a revised (and more elaborately illustrated) version of his classic 'Monument and Myth' (Harvey 1979), and versions of the essay on Balzac have been published elsewhere. But, such is Harvey's skill that the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. Paris is a strikingly complete and original reading of the capital-urban nexus, a thorough
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argument about how the ground for revolutionary change is always prepared in the contradictions of historical-geographical development (even if that preparation often comes to naught) and an evocative, bird's-eye view of Paris in the throes of modernisation. Even so, the title of the book is misleading. Paris is not really, in any substantive sense that I could find, about that city as the Capital of Modernity if, by that phrase, Harvey means the centre or modernist creation and creativity. Paris may have been that, but Harvey does not make the case (nor does he seem to intend to). If, on the other hand, by the phrase Harvey means to signal how capital constructed a new kind of modernity in Paris, then perhaps the title is more apt, but not much more, as the book is far more ranging and far more subtle than a reading of cultural and social development off of transformations in a political-economic base. The book is written in two main parts (together with the 'Monument and Myth' coda). Part 1, entitled 'Representations' surveys the revolutionary period between 1830 and 1848 through essays on Balzac and on utopian and revolutionary schemes of the period. This section not only surveys the cultural ferment of the era, but also shows how this ferment laid an ideological (as well as material) groundwork for the Second Empireeven for the parties of order and reaction that dominated the era. Haussmann, Harvey shows, was deeply influenced by Saint-Simonian utopianism, drawing out especially its authoritarian and populist sides while trying (sometimes) to reconcile these with 'an uneasy respect for private property and the market' (86). The two wide-ranging essays that make up Part I are compelling historical geographies of a cultural moment, linking both the literature of Balzac (and others) and the revolutionary ferment of the time to the growing contradictions of a capitalism-and a city-making a wrenching transition from its pre-modern traditions rooted in crafts and even, often, a form of mutualism to a modern capitalism-and city-rooted in more fully alienated labour and systematised modes of production, all while quickly outgrowing the ,space relations' (as Harvey calls them) that made such modernising possible. All this change, utopian scheming and revolutionary ardour-and this section of the book-culminate in the revolution of 1848, a 'socialist revolution that failed' (85). This failure paved the way, in

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