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Explaining Global Poverty: A Critical Realist Approach book cover

1st Edition

Explaining Global Poverty A Critical Realist Approach

By Branwen Gruffydd Jones Copyright 2006
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west and the impoverished developing world is a complex problem. This book recognises that Africa in particular has manifested this global disgrace and symbolizes the nature of poverty to the western world. In... Read more

Part 1: Poverty, Need and Objectivity in Social Inquiry  1. Poverty and Development in Africa: Twentieth-Century Orthodoxies  2. Critical Perspectives: From Global Structure to Local Agency  3. Objectivity, Need and the Dialectics of Emancipation  4. Marxism, Imperialism and Africa  Part 2: Explaining Poverty: The Massive Presence of the Past and the Outside  5. The Presence of the Past: Slavery, Colonialism and Primitive Accumulation  6. The Presence of the Outside: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Production of Absence  7. Neo-Colonialism and the Reproduction of Poverty: Contemporary Dialectics of Accumulation and Dispossession.  Conclusion

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Branwen Gruffydd Jones

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