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Development Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place Series Editor: John Agnew Titles in the Series: Politics John Agnew and Virginie Mamadouh Environment Kay Anderson and Bruce Braun Development Stuart Corbridge Regions J. Nicholas Entrikin Transport Susan Hanson andMei-Po Kwan Culture and Society Nuala C. Johnson The City Jacques Levy Economy Ron Martin The Rural Richard Munton Theory and Methods Chris Philo Development Critical Essays in Human Geography Edited by Stuart Corbridge London School of Economics and Political Science, UK 13 Routledge jjj^^ Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Stuart Corbridge 2008. For copyright of individual articles please refer to the Acknowledgements. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Wherever possible, these reprints are made from a copy of the original printing, but these can themselves be of very variable quality. Whilst the publisher has made every effort to ensure the quality of the reprint, some variability may inevitably remain. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Development: critical essays in human geography. - (Contemporary foundations of space and place) 1. Human geography 2. Economic development - Social aspects 3. Globalization - Social aspects 4. Geographical perception I. Corbridge, Stuart 304.2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007941047 ISBN 9780754626817 (hbk) Contents Acknowledgements ix Series Preface xi Introduction xiii PART I FROM COLONIAL GEOGRAPHY TO RADICAL DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHY 1 Marcus Power and James D. Sidaway (2004), 'The Degeneration of Tropical Geography', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94, pp. 585-601. 3 2 Joseph E. Schwartzberg (1962), 'Three Approaches to the Mapping of Economic Development in India', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 52, pp. 455-68. 21 3 Akin L. Mabogunje (1973), 'Manufacturing and the Geography of Development in Tropical Africa', Economic Geography, 49, pp. 1-20. 35 4 David Slater (1973 and 1977), 'Geography and Underdevelopment - Part I' and 'Geography and Underdevelopment - Part IP, Antipode, 5, pp. 21-32 and 9, pp. 1-31. 55 5 Keith Buchanan (1973), 'The White North and the Population Explosion', Antipode, 3, pp. 7-15. 99 PART II GENDER AND HOUSEHOLDS 6 Sylvia Chant (1985), 'Single-Parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-Headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns', Development and Change, 16, pp. 635-56. Ill 7 Judith Carney (1993), 'Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in The Gambia', Economic Geography, 69, pp. 329^8. 133 8 Gillian Hart (1991), 'Engendering Everyday Resistance: Gender, Patronage and Production Politics in Rural Malaysia', Journal of Peasant Studies, 19, pp. 93-121. 153 PART III DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES AND IDENTITIES 9 Lakshman Yapa (1996), 'What Causes Poverty? A Postmodern View', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 86, pp. 707-28. 185 10 Anthony Bebbington (1993), 'Modernization from Below: An Alternative Indigenous Development?', Economic Geography, 69, pp. 274-92. 207 vi Development: Critical Essays in Human Geography 11 Lucy Jarosz (1992), 'Constructing the Dark Continent: Metaphor as Geographic Representation of Africa', GeografiskaAnnaler, 74B, pp. 105-15. 227 12 Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Lily Kong (1994), 'Reading Landscape Meanings: State Constructions and Lived Experiences in Singapore's Chinatown', Habitat International, 18, pp. 17-35. 239 PART IV RESOURCES CONFLICTS AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY 13 Richard M. Auty (2001), 'The Political State and the Management of Mineral Rents in Capital-Surplus Economies: Botswana and Saudi Arabia', Resources Policy, 27, pp. 77-86. 261 14 Haripriya Rangan (1997), 'Property vs. Control: The State and Forest Management in the Indian Himalaya', Development and Change, 28, pp. 71-94. 271 15 Sanjay Kumar (2002), 'Does "Participation" in Common Pool Resource Management Help the Poor? A Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Joint Forest Management in Jharkhand, India', World Development, 30, pp. 763-82. 295 16 Paul Robbins (1998), 'Authority and Environment: Institutional Landscapes in Rajasthan, India', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88, pp. 410-35. 315 17 Roderick P. Neumann (1997), 'Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa', Development and Change, 28, pp. 559-82. 341 18 Wendy Wolford (2004), 'This Land is Ours Now: Spatial Imaginaries and the Struggle for Land in Brazil', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 94, pp. 409-24. 365 PART V GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS 19 Neil Smith (1997), 'The Satanic Geographies of Globalization: Uneven Development in the 1990s', Public Culture, 10, pp. 169-89. 383 20 Sharad Chari (2004), 'Provincializing Capital: The Work of an Agrarian Past in South Indian Industry', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46, pp. 760-85. 405 21 David Featherstone (2003), ' Spatialities of Transnational Resistance to Globalization: The Maps of Grievances of the Inter-Continental Caravan', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28, pp. 404-21. 431 22 Richa Nagar and Saraswati Raju (2003), 'Women, NGOs and the Contradictions of Empowerment and Disempowerment: A Conversation', Antipode, 35, pp. 1-13. 449 PART VI THE (IM)POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPMENT 23 Piers Blaikie, John Cameron and David Seddon (2002), 'Understanding 20 Years of Change in West-Central Nepal: Continuity and Change in Lives and Ideas', World Development, 30, pp. 1255-70. 465 Development: Critical Essays in Human Geography vii 24 Stuart Corbridge (2007), 'The (Im)possibility of Development Studies', Economy and Society, 36, pp. 179-211. 481 25 Michael Watts (2003), 'Development and Governmentality', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24, pp. 6-34. 515 Name Index 545 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements The editor and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright material. Blackwell Publishing Ltd for the essays: David Slater (1973 and 1977), 'Geography and Underdevelopment - Part F and Geography and Underdevelopment - Part IF, Antipode, 5, pp. 21-32 and 9, pp. 1-31; Keith Buchanan (1973), 'The White North and the Population Explosion', Antipode, 3, pp. 7-15; Sylvia Chant (1985), 'Single-Parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of Female-Headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns', Development and Change, 16, pp. 635-56; Lucy Jarosz (1992), 'Constructing the Dark Continent: Metaphor as Geographic Representation of Africa', GeografiskaAnnaler, 74B, pp. 105-15; Haripriya Rangan (1997), 'Property vs. Control: The State and Forest Management in the Indian Himalaya', Development and Change, 28, pp. 71-94. Copyright © 1997 Institute of Social Sciences; Roderick P. Neumann (1997), 'Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa', Development and Change, 28, pp. 559-82. Copyright © 1997 Institute of Social Sciences; David Featherstone (2003), 'Spatialities of Transnational Resistance to Globalization: The Maps of Grievances of the Inter-Continental Caravan', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 28, pp. 404-21. Copyright © 2003 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers); Michael Watts (2003), 'Development and Governmentality', Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 24, pp. 6-34; Copyright © 2003 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and Blackwell Publishers Ltd; Richa Nagar and Saraswati Raju (2003), 'Women, NGOs and the Contradictions of Empowerment and Disempowerment: A Conversation', Antipode, 35, pp. 1-13. Copyright © 2003 Editorial Board of Antipode. Cambridge University Press for the essay: Sharad Chari (2004), 'Provincializing Capital: The Work of an Agrarian Past in South Indian Industry', Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46, pp. 760-85. Copyright © 2004 Society for the Comparative Study in Society and History. Clark University for the essays: Akin L. Mabogunj e (1973), 'Manufacturing and the Geography of Development in Tropical Africa', Economic Geography, 49, pp. 1-20; Judith Carney (1993), 'Converting the Wetlands, Engendering the Environment: The Intersection of Gender with Agrarian Change in The Gambia', Economic Geography, 69, pp. 329^8; Anthony Bebbington (1993), 'Modernization from Below: An Alternative Indigenous Development?', Economic Geography, 69, pp. 274-92. Copyright Clearance Center for the essays: Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Lily Kong (1994), 'Reading Landscape Meanings: State Constructions and Lived Experiences in Singapore's Chinatown', Habitat International, 18, pp. 17-35. Copyright © 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd; Richard M. Auty (2001), 'The Political State and the Management of Mineral Rents in Capital-Surplus

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