The Language of Global Development: A Misleading Geography - Couverture rigide

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Solarz, Marcin

 
9780415657020: The Language of Global Development: A Misleading Geography
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ISBN 10 : 0415657024 ISBN 13 : 9780415657020
Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Terms such as "Third World", "developing countries" and "Global South" are ubiquitous in the discipline of development studies, but they are often poorly defined, ideologically weighted and misleading.

Taking an intellectual history approach, this book examines the most commonly used spatial terms in the language of development, tracing their origins, meanings, evolution and processes of popularisation and demonstrating how geographical, political and economic concepts were used or misused in creating these terms. The book looks at the origins and the changing nature of fundamental development divisions from prehistoric times to the present day and analyses the process of conceptualising the contemporary North-South divide, focusing especially on the start of spatial development terminology in the twentieth century. It uses detailed maps to assist the reader in visualising the geographical complexities of these spatial terms, and discusses more recently developed terms, such as "emerging markets" and "BRIC", which are key to understanding the modern world.

This book provides a valuable resource for students and researchers in development studies, international relations, geography, sociology and anthropology, as well as practitioners in the field of development.

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À propos de l?auteur

Associate Professor at the Institute of Regional and Global Studies, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests focus on human geography and international relations, with a special emphasis on political geography, regional geography and North-South relations.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415657024
ISBN 13 
9780415657020
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
194
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
https://www.buchpark.de

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Brandenburg
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9781138701052: The Language of Global Development

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  113870105X ISBN 13 :  9781138701052
Editeur : Routledge, 2017
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