Development: Critical Essays in Human

The volume brings together twenty-five of the most influential articles published in the field of development geography since 1960. The first part looks at the origins of development geography and the debates between modernization theorists and radicals that took shape in the 1970s. Thereafter, the book is organized thematically. Geographers have made key contributions to development studies in four major areas, all of which are represented here and include gender and households, development alternatives and identities, resource conflicts and political ecology and globalization and resistance. The book ends with three broad-ranging essays by leading figures in the field.

Introduction
From Colonial Geography to Radical Development Geography
The degeneration of tropical geography
3 approaches to the mapping of economic development in India
Manufacturing and the geography of development in tropical Africa
Geography and underdevelopment, I and II
The white north and the population explosion
Gender and Households
Single-parent families: choice or constraint?
The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns
Converting the wetlands, engendering the environment: the intersection of gender with agrarian change in The Gambia
Engendering everyday resistance: gender, patronage and production politics in rural Malaysia
Development Alternatives and Identities
What causes poverty? A postmodern view
Modernization from below: an alternative indigenous development?
Constructing the dark continent: metaphor as geographic representation of Africa
Reading landscape meanings: state constructions and lived experiences in Singapore's Chinatown
Resources Conflicts and Political Ecology
The political state and the management of mineral rents in capital-surplus economies
Botswana and Saudi Arabia
Property vs. control: the state and forest management in the Indian Himalaya
Does 'participation' in common pool resource management help the poor?
A social cost-benefit analysis of joint forest management in Jharkhand, India
Authority and environment: institutional landscapes in Rajasthan, India
Primitive ideas: protected area buffer zones and the politics of land in Africa
This land is ours now: spatial imaginaries and the struggle for land in Brazil
Globalization and Its Discontents
The satanic geographies of globalization: uneven development in the 1990s
Provincializing capital: the work of an agrarian past in South Indian industry
Spatialities of transnational resistance to globalization: the maps of grievances of the inter-continental caravan
Women, NGOs and the contradictions of empowerment and disempowerment: a conversation
The (Im)possibility of Development
Understanding 20 years of change in West-Central Nepal: continuity and change in lives and ideas
The (im)possibility of development studies
Development and governmentality
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