Rethinking Development Geographies

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ISBN: 9780415250788 | 0415250781
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/29/2003

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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.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction: what is 'development'?

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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 Illiuminating, the dark side, of development

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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'

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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'

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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Towards 2015

Geographies of neoliberalisation

Imagining a post-development era

Decolonisation and development (geography): beyond trusteeship

Glossary

236

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Bibliography

238

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Index

259

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