Book Reviews : Mapping men and empire: a geography of adventure. By Richard Phillips. London, Routledge. 1997. viii + 208 pp. £45.00, cloth; £14.99, paper. ISBN 0 415 13771 3, cloth; 0 415 13772 1, paper

articulated. In the conclusions, a call is made for a ’re-reasoning’ of modernity, articulated not as a market-imperative Western model but as a hybrid and more emancipatory process, using science and indigenous technical knowledge in a less than global space. While the editors are clear that liberation ecology is articulated primarily as a critique (p. 262), some contributors feel more strongly that the move to a different modernity is closer to reality, via social movements or grass-roots contestations. Second, a focus on civil society as the site for meaningful development is founded upon a critique of new developmentalist populism, exemplified by some ’farmer-first’ and ecofeminist approaches. The environmental imaginary