Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies

by Robert B. Potter

A new edition of our bestselling development text, Geographies of Development remains the first textbook to offer an innovative and comprehensive approach to the subject, written by a team of world-renowned development specialists. The authors have considerable teaching experience in this area and collectively bring first-hand research expertise from: North, West and southern Africa; Asia and the Pacific, and the Caribbean/South America. - Every chapter is fully revised, and includes a new introduction and postscript. - Focus is placed on globalisation, postmodernity and development deologies, which ties in with current courses and sets the book apart from its traditional counterparts. - The new edition covers recent changes in both theory (post-development, anti-development etc) and practice (anti-capitalist demonstrations, IMF, GM crops etc). - Most of the changes are in line with suggestions made by reviewers such as greater emphasis on globalisation, more on current events, more depth on cultural aspects of the field.

Genres: Geography

576 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 5, 1999

About the author

Potter, Rob, 1950-
Potter, Robert 1950-
Potter, Robert B.
Potter, Robert Bernard 1950-

Reviews

[Alma · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is not a critique of the book more of myself, it was soooooo long but very useful for my essays.

[Kajsa Hansson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, it's a good introduction to the topic. I'd suggest it for younger readers though (yeah, despite the academic English)... at my age you've most likely already studied the UN and WTO and those kinda institutions quite a lot, and then there's a risk that this book gets repetative.