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Making Development Geography
Victoria Lawson

Paperback
RRP: £22.99
ISBN: 9780340809648
ISBN-10: 0340809647

Published: 26/01/2007
Extent: 224 pages
Series: Human Geography in the Making

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Summary:
Making Development Geography is a timely new book which introduces readers to the major themes and debates in development geography. It argues cogently that the field is engaged in an ongoing process of reinventing itself as critical development geography, and highlights issues such as identity, globalization, social movements and sexuality. Readers are guided through the key concepts and developments of the last 50 years, surveying the themes of Keynesianism, Marxism and post-colonialism. At the same time, each chapter uses international examples to discuss important contemporary issues so that the real-world applications of theory can be understood.

This enlightening book offers a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental debates for anyone with an interest in development issues.

  • Makes the key debates of development geography accessible to a student audience
  • Combines a theoretical overview with real international examples
  • Highlights issues such as identity, globalization, social movements and sexuality

Table of Contents:
1. Development as situated knowledge
2. Remaking development geography
3. Development as intervention - from modernization to neo-liberalization
4. Development as immanent process: marxist-feminist political economy
5. Post-structural turns: discourse, identity and difference
6. Intellectual and political directions

About the Author(s):
Victoria Lawson is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Readership:
Undergraduate students studying development issues

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