Geographies of Developing Areas: The Global South in a Changing World

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 book:

• examines the ways in which the Global South is represented, and the values at play
• explores how the South is shaping, and being shaped by, global economic, political and cultural processes
• looks at peoples’ lives and identities
• assesses the possibilities and limitations of different `development’ strategies.

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.

Title - Geographies of Developing Areas: The Global South in a Changing World

Edition -

Author - Glyn Williams,Paula Meth,Katie Willis

ISBN 13 - 9780415381222

Imprint - Routledge

Publisher - Taylor & Francis Ltd

Date Published - 06/04/2009

Prize -

No. of pages - 464

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 189 x 246 x mm

Weight - 1089 g

Languages - English