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We have assumed from the temperate world that the cow is essential; we need to question this assumption. The answers will vary considerably from country to country. I suggest that there are two sorts of country: first, countries such as Bangladesh and Nigeria, where no possibility of a milk industry exists. Therefore, if milk is used it has to be imported.It is a presumption for us in the West to say so, but I suggest that the sensible action is to reduce progressively milk imports and to look at substitution of other materials. A certain amount of work has been done on soya milk; however this may not be suitable as it may be difficult to produce at village level. There are many other possibilities; for example, if a child with a chronic diarrhoeal problem is admitted to a hospital where I work it is fed on a mixture of chicken, glucose and oil. This sort of mixture could be made up in a village. We need to look at such possible alternatives for infant feeding.

SummaryThe process of urbanization in the Third World has vastly outstripped the equivalent change in industrialized countries, and also far exceeds the population growth. This urbanization has been associated with the spread of artificial feeding and associated short birth intervals. Although relatively few studies have been undertaken on the effect of length of birth interval, we have good evidence that it is associated with poorer growth, a less satisfactory intellectual development, and a higher mortality. Child health programmes have, up to the present, been only marginally involved in the question of birth interval, although as mentioned this has a considerable effect on the health of the child. In overcoming malnutrition, simple weight charts are now widely accepted as a useful tool by which the adequate growth of the child can be monitored, and in this way malnutrition prevented. These same weight charts can be a useful means of identifying in any community the month in which a woman has a 5% chance of conceiving again. The charts can also be used as a means of recording the dialogue between the health worker and the parents on the most appropriate time interval to separate their children. However, to achieve this the developing countries will need a vast increase in the health personnel they have available. Experience now in a number of countries suggests that the part-time health worker may be particularly appropriate for providing such services.

The first volume of the landmark two-volume collection of Stuart Hall's most important and influential essays, Foundations of Cultural Studies focuses on the first half of Hall's career, when he wrestled with questions of culture, class, representation, and politics

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- One Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity [1986] -- Introduction -- Two Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities [1991] -- Three What Is This "Black" in Black Popular Culture? [1992] -- Four The Multicultural Question [2000] -- Introduction -- Five The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power [1992] -- Six The Formation of a Diasporic Intellectual: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Kuan-Hsing Chen [1996] -- Seven Thinking the Diaspora: Home-Thoughts from Abroad [1999] -- Introduction -- Eight Politics, Contingency, Strategy: An Interview with David Scott [1997] -- Nine At Home and Not at Home: Stuart Hall in Conversation with Les Back [2008] -- Ten Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life [2007] -- Index -- Place of first publication

Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction: A Life in Essays -- Introduction -- 1. Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy, and the Cultural Turn [2007] -- 2. Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms [1980] -- 3. Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies [1992] -- Introduction -- 4. The Hinterland of Science: Ideology and the Sociology of Knowledge [1977] -- 5. Rethinking the "Base and Superstructure" Metaphor [1977] -- 6. Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance [1980] -- 7. On Postmodernism and Articulation: An Interview with Stuart Hall by Larry Grossberg and Others [1986] -- Introduction -- 8. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse [originally 1973; republished 2007] -- 9. External Influences on Broadcasting: The External/Internal Dialectic in Broadcasting—Television's Double-Bind [1972] -- 10. Culture, the Media, and the "Ideological Effect" [1977] -- Introduction -- 11. Notes on Deconstructing "the Popular" [1981] -- 12. Policing the Crisis: Preface to the 35th Anniversary Edition [2013] -- 13. The Great Moving Right Show [1979] -- Index -- Place of First Publication

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating acc