A world of difference : encountering and contesting development

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Other Authors: Sheppard, Eric S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, London : Guilford Press, 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • Measuring, describing, and mapping difference and development
  • Knowing the third world: colonial encounters
  • Knowing the third world: the development decades
  • The third world and neoliberal globalization
  • Geographies of population: discourse and politics
  • Contested environments: the entanglements of environment, development, and globalization
  • Disease and health
  • Uncertain rains: the atmospheric energy cycle and the hydrologic cycle
  • Other challenges to rural livelihood: soils, vegetation, and pests
  • Nature as latitudinal trickster: the carbon cycle and plant growth
  • The management of tropical and subtropical ecosystems: the Pokot of West Central Kenya-an indigenous knowledge system
  • The historical geography of colonialism and the slave trade
  • Colonialism as spatial and labor control system
  • The end of colonialism and the promise of free trade
  • Trading primary commodities
  • Peripheral industrialization: paths and strategies
  • The earths crust as resource
  • Urbanization, migration, and spatial polarization
  • Transnational production
  • Foreign branch plants and economic growth
  • Money and global finance markets / with Bongman Seo
  • Borrowing money: aid, debt, and dependence / with Bongman Seo
  • Toward different worlds.