A world of difference : encountering and contesting development
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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.