Geographies of Developing Areas
The Global South in a changing World
Williams, Glyn / Meth, Paula / Willis, Katie
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Description:
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 play; explores how the South is shaping, and being shaped by, global economic, political and cultural processes; looks at peoples' lives and identities; assess 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 60 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.
Details:
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- Textual Format: Textbooks, Lower level
- Academic Level: Scholarly/Graduate
- Depth (m): 0.025
- Dewey: 337.09172/4
- Edition: 1
- Height (m): 0.241
- Pages: 428
- Place Of Publication: Great Britain/British Isles
- Published Date: Tue 17 Mar 2009
- Weight (g): 1111
- Width (m): 0.184
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