1st Edition

Making Development Geography

By Victoria Lawson Copyright 2007
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Victoria Lawson is Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA