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Book Review: Ozone Connections: Expert Networks in Global Environmental Governance

Document Cited in Related
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DOI10.1177/096466390301200110
AuthorOren Perez
Date01 March 2003
Published date01 March 2003
Subject MatterArticles
40P 09 Book reviews (JS/D) 20/1/03 11:03 am Page 147
BOOK REVIEWS
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In the conclusion, Bosworth argues that conceptualizing agency, identity and resist-
ance together not only can help to formulate a gendered understanding of power but
can also lead to the establishment of ‘a new “criminological imagination” and a
strategy of critique by encouraging criminologists to engage with literature outside
of the discipline’ (p. 157). This is a valid and important point given the historical and
contemporary orientation of criminologists towards empirical and evaluation studies
thus imposing intellectual and political shackles on the discipline.
The conclusion could have been developed further by linking the book’s micro-
analysis with a broader structural analysis of the political and patriarchal economy of
the women’s prison. Why, for example, is the women’s prison population accelerat-
ing, what parallels can be drawn with previous epochs such as the early 20th century
when women were also being institutionalized in high numbers albeit for very
different crimes, is the prison part of the more general social and cultural backlash
which appears to be happening to women across the globe? Addressing the macro-
politics of the women’s prison and analysing its dialectical relationship to the theor-
etical framework developed in the book would have completed the intellectual
argument in an admirable piece of research that should be a central text on reading
lists for many years to come.
One final point, at £49.50, the extortionate cost of this book is prohibitive for the
vast majority of educational institutions and their staff and students. Libraries, despite
the government’s commitment to ‘education, education, education’, are under fierce
attack both materially through infrastructural cutbacks and ideologically through
their reconstitution as cyberspace-dominated ‘learning resource centres’. The regu-
lation of knowledge has been further intensified by the insidious intrusion of new
copyright laws which,...

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