Geographies of Developing Areas; Glyn Williams, Meth Paula, Willis Katie; 2009

Geographies of Developing Areas

av Glyn Williams, Meth Paula, Willis Katie
This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the `Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their `problems’. Providing a positive but critical approach to a number of key issues affecting these important areas, the book:

examines the ways in which the Global South is represented, and the values at playexplores how the South is shaping, and being shaped by, global economic, political and cultural processeslooks at peoples’ lives and identitiesassesses the possibilities and limitations of different `development’ strategies. A timely assessment of the way global processes are perceived from the Global South, the book is illustrated with over sixty colour photographs. It includes a full glossary of key terms, case studies from fieldwork conducted across a range of communities and nations, and introductions to the wider literature in this field.

This is a wonderful new textbook for all students interested in Human Geography and Development Studies.
This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the `Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their `problems’. Providing a positive but critical approach to a number of key issues affecting these important areas, the book:

examines the ways in which the Global South is represented, and the values at playexplores how the South is shaping, and being shaped by, global economic, political and cultural processeslooks at peoples’ lives and identitiesassesses the possibilities and limitations of different `development’ strategies. A timely assessment of the way global processes are perceived from the Global South, the book is illustrated with over sixty colour photographs. It includes a full glossary of key terms, case studies from fieldwork conducted across a range of communities and nations, and introductions to the wider literature in this field.

This is a wonderful new textbook for all students interested in Human Geography and Development Studies.
Utgiven: 2009
ISBN: 9780415381239
Förlag: Routledge
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Sidor: 464 st
This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the `Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their `problems’. Providing a positive but critical approach to a number of key issues affecting these important areas, the book:

examines the ways in which the Global South is represented, and the values at playexplores how the South is shaping, and being shaped by, global economic, political and cultural processeslooks at peoples’ lives and identitiesassesses the possibilities and limitations of different `development’ strategies. A timely assessment of the way global processes are perceived from the Global South, the book is illustrated with over sixty colour photographs. It includes a full glossary of key terms, case studies from fieldwork conducted across a range of communities and nations, and introductions to the wider literature in this field.

This is a wonderful new textbook for all students interested in Human Geography and Development Studies.
This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the `Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their `problems’. Providing a positive but critical approach to a number of key issues affecting these important areas, the book:

examines the ways in which the Global South is represented, and the values at playexplores how the South is shaping, and being shaped by, global economic, political and cultural processeslooks at peoples’ lives and identitiesassesses the possibilities and limitations of different `development’ strategies. A timely assessment of the way global processes are perceived from the Global South, the book is illustrated with over sixty colour photographs. It includes a full glossary of key terms, case studies from fieldwork conducted across a range of communities and nations, and introductions to the wider literature in this field.

This is a wonderful new textbook for all students interested in Human Geography and Development Studies.
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