Development: Critical Essays in Human Geography

586 Pages·2008·44.772 MB·English

by  Stuart Corbridge (editor)

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Acknowledgements
The editor and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to use copyright
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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