Development
Critical Essays in Human Geography

Brings together twenty-five of the influential articles published in the field of development geography since 1960. This volume looks at the origins of development geography and the debates between modernization theorists and radicals that took shape in the 1970s.

The volume brings together twenty-five of the most influential articles published in the field of development geography since 1960. The first part looks at the origins of development geography and the debates between modernization theorists and radicals that took shape in the 1970s. Thereafter, the book is organized thematically. Geographers have made key contributions to development studies in four major areas, all of which are represented here and include hender and households, development alternatives and identities, resource conflicts and political ecology and globalization and resistance. The book ends with three broad-ranging essays by leading figures in the field.

Introduction
Part I From Colonial Geography to Radical Development Geography: The degeneration of tropical geography, Marcus Power and James D. Sidaway
3 approaches to the mapping of economic development in India, Joseph E. Schwartzberg
Manufacturing and the geography of development in tropical Africa, A. Mabogunje
Geography and underdevelopment I and II, D. Slater
The white north and the population explosion, K. Buchanan.
Part II Gender and Households: Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns, S. Chant
Converting the wetlands, engendering the environment: the intersection of gender with agrarian change in the Gambia, J. Carney
Engendering everyday resistance: gender, patronage and production politics in rural Malaysia, G. Hart.
Part III Development Alternatives and Identities: What causes poverty? A postmodern view, Lakshman Yapa
Modernization from below: an alternative indigenous development?, A. Bebbington
Constructing the dark continent: metaphor as geographic representation of Africa, Lucy Jarosz
Reading landscape meanings: state constructions and lived experiences in Singapore's Chinatown, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Lily Kong.
Part IV Resources Conflicts and Political Ecology: The political state and the management of mineral rents in capital surplus economies: Botswana and Saudi Arabia, R. Auty
Property vs. control: the state and forest management in the Indian Himalaya, Haripriya Rangan
Does participation in common pool resource management help the poor? A social cost-benefit analysis of joint forest management in Jharkhand, India, S. Kumar
Authority and environment: institutional landscapes in Rajasthan, India, Paul Robbins
Primitive ideas: protected area buffer zones and the politics of land in Africa, Roderick P. Neumann
This land is ours now: spatial imaginaries and the struggle for land in Brazil, Wendy Wolford.
Part V Globalization and Its Discontents: The satanic geographies of globalization: uneven development in the 1990s, N. Smith
Spatialities of transnational resistance to globalization: the maps of grievances of the inter-continental caravan, David Featherstone
Women, NGOs and the contradictions of empowerment and disempowerment: a conversation, Richa Nagar and Saraswati Raju. Part IV The (Im)possibility of Development: Understanding 20 years of change in West-Central Nepal: continuity and change in lives and ideas, P. Blaikie, J. Cameron and D. Seddon
The (im)possibility of development studies, S. Corbridge
Development and governmentality, Michael Watts.