Geographies of Developing Areas: The Global South in a changing world

by Glyn Williams, Katie Willis, Paula Meth

This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the ‘Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their ‘problems’. Providing a positive but critical approach to a number of key issues affecting these important areas, the A timely assessment of the way global processes are perceived from the Global South, the book is illustrated with over sixty colour photographs. It includes a full glossary of key terms, case studies from fieldwork conducted across a range of communities and nations, and introductions to the wider literature in this field. This is a wonderful new textbook for all students interested in Human Geography and Development Studies.

Genres: Geography

464 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

Professor Glyn Williams is a distinguished naval historian and professor emeritus at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. He has been president of the Hakluyt Society and general editor of the records of the Hudson's Bay Company, and has published several volumes on the relationship between the HBC and the exploration of the Canadian Arctic and the Subarctic.
He lives in West Malling, Kent.

Also publishes under the name Glyndwyr Williams .

Reviews

[Tara Nelson · Rating 4 out of 5]

a great book for understanding the issues the global south are curently facing and what we can do to help change it