Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415250788
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9780203006184
Content:
Moving away from the traditional approach of providing descriptive accounts of Third World geographical issues, this book offers a stimulating critical introduction to the changing geographies of global development
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Intro -- RETHINKING RETHINKING GEOGRAPHIES -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: what is 'development'? -- People, places and progress: thinking spatially about development -- Mental maps and imagined geographies of difference -- Development and the geography of power -- Re/thinking geographies of development: a guide to what follows -- Chapter 2 Illuminating the dark side of development -- Introduction: an incomplete and contested picture of progress -- The global 'protest caravan' -- Decolonising the mindset of development -- The political and psychological satisfaction of 'helping' the poor -- The (geo)politics of aid -- Conclusions: geopolitics and the 'apothecary' of development remedies -- Chapter 3 Geographers and 'the Tropics' -- Introduction: Orientalism and tropical geographies -- Geographies of colonial modernity -- From tropical to development geography (via imperialism) -- From 'pious Eurocentrism' to geographies of 'anti-development' -- Conclusions: geo-writings and the tropical worlds of development -- Chapter 4 Development thinking and the mystical 'kingdom of abundance' -- Introduction: knowledge and the era of modernity -- The Enlightenment and the theorisation of development as progress -- The 'Sinatra Doctrine' and the Cold War -- Dependency: just another narration of tradition vs. modernity? -- Imagining a post-development era -- Conclusions: deconstructions and reconstructions of development -- Chapter 5 Thirdworldism and the imagination of global development -- Introduction: a critical geopolitics of Third World development -- 'The West' and 'the rest' -- The concept of the three worlds -- Lost for wor(l)ds?: worlding and otherness -- Conclusions: colonialism, decolonisation and the pursuit of development -- Chapter 6 Postcolonial geographies of development
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Introduction: what is postcolonialism? -- Postcolonialism and national belonging -- Language, culture and identity -- Partnership or trusteeship? -- Conclusions: postcolonialism and the voices of the poor: can anyone hear us? -- Chapter 7 Globalisation, government and power -- Introduction: globalisation and the non-western world -- Neoliberalism and 'actually existing' globalisation -- Globalisation and the myth of free trade -- Globalisation and the post-Washington apothecary -- Conclusions: governance, geopolitics and development: towards a new kind of multilateralism? -- Chapter 8 The dissemination of development -- Introduction: development as a 'global moral imperative'? -- Obscuring the causes of poverty: the poverty process acronyms -- Poverty, livelihoods discourse and social capital -- Deconstructing the 'development gateway' -- Conclusions: solutions in search of problems? -- Chapter 9 'Theorising back': views from the South and the globalisation of resistance -- Opening a space in the history and geography of international development -- Empowerment from above or below? -- Geopolitics from below and the crises of statecentred developmentalism -- 'We do not need you to save our forests' -- Neoliberalism, democracy and resistance in post-apartheid South Africa -- Conclusions: a global fabric of struggle? -- Chapter 10 Conclusions: resisting the temptations of remedies, mirages and fairy-tales -- Towards 2015 -- Geographies of neoliberalisation -- Imagining a post-development era -- Decolonisation and development (geography): beyond trusteeship -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Power, Marcus Rethinking Development Geographies Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2003 ISBN 9780415250788
Language:
English
Keywords:
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