Rethinking Development Geographies

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ISBN: 9780415250795 | 041525079X
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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

Introduction: what is `development'?

(19)

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

Illuminating the dark side of development

(25)

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

Geographers and `the Tropics'

(26)

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

Development thinking and the mystical `kingdom of abundance'

(24)

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

Thirdworldism and the imagination of global development

(24)

Introduction: a critical geopolitics of Third World development

`The West' and `the rest'

The concept of the three worlds

Lost for wor(I)ds?: worlding and otherness

Conclusions: colonialism, decolonisation and the pursuit of development

Postcolonial geographies of development

119

(24)

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?

Globalisation, government and power

143

(26)

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?

The dissemination of development

169

(25)

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?

`Theorising back': views from the South and the globalisation of resistance

194

(25)

Opening a space in the history and geography of international development

Empowerment from above or below?

Geopolitics from below and the crises of state-centred 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?

Conclusions: resisting the temptations of remedies, mirages and fairy-tales

219

(17)

Towards 2015

Geographies of neoliberalisation

Imagining a post-development era

Decolonisation and development (geography): beyond trusteeship

Glossary

236

(2)

Bibliography

238

(21)

Index

259

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