A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development

by Eric Sheppard, Philip W. Porter, David R. Faust

Widely regarded as the authoritative text on development geography, this volume examines the nature and causes of global inequality and critically analyzes contemporary approaches to economic development across the third world. Students gain a deeper understanding of the interacting dynamics of culture, gender, race, and class; biophysical factors, such as climate, population, and natural resources; and economic and political processes—all of which have led to the present-day disparities between the first and third worlds. Numerous examples, sidebars, and figures illustrate how people in the global South are experiencing and contesting the forces of globalization.

Genres: Nonfiction

665 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2009

Reviews

[Chessmen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great geography book assigned for a course on developmental geographpy. This served as my "formal academic guide" through university and a pathstone onto deeper theoretical approaches. I read the current bestseller in geography, Why Nations Fail with this book and noticed which parts overlapped. World of Difference is more of a balanced mainstream guide for economic geography which does not try to argue for a single answer as Why Nations Fail does. It is scholarly without losing you in its discussions