A World of Difference

Encountering and Contesting Development in a Changing World
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4625-6544-3
Verlag: Guilford Publications

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Popular for showing students how to critically analyze approaches to development across the global South, the third edition of this text reflects over 15 years of conceptual advances, as well as economic, political, and environmental changes worldwide. Taking a geographical approach, the authors contrast Northern and Southern theories of development and examine how global change is shaped by shifting uneven relations connecting places and by local–global interrelations. Featuring rich examples and illustrations, chapters delve into the intersecting historical, geographical, economic, political, cultural, and biophysical dynamics shaping contemporary North–South global disparities. The text gives particular attention to agency across the global South--how people and institutions facing depredations associated with Northern development norms enact alternatives that center economic and social justice. Engaging sidebars, maps, and figures support learning. The companion website includes prior edition chapters on global climate, global biogeography, and Pokot agroecology.

New to This Edition
- Restructured to clarify how colonialism and slavery have shaped the postcolonial South’s development challenges.
- New and expanded topics: transnational migration, global population dynamics, global agriculture, mineral extraction, financialization, southern megacities, global heating, rising ethnonationalism, logistics, new development agents, the China model, and more.
- New chapter on alternative Southern development imaginaries and practices.
- Numerous new and updated sidebars, maps, and graphics, including 14 full-color plates depicting the book's major themes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheppard, Eric

Leitner, Helga

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Sheppard, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor of Geography Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a member of its Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Institute on Inequality and Democracy. He previously held the Alexander von Humboldt Chair at UCLA and a Regents Professorship at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Sheppard has traveled and conducted research throughout the global South, with a particular focus recently on southeast Asia. He has published numerous books and articles on topics that range across geographical political economy, urban politics and dynamics, geographical thought and methods, critical geospatial technologies, social movements, and socio-spatial theory. Dr. Sheppard is the recipient of awards including Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the American Association of Geographers, the Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA, Honorary Doctor of Laws from Bristol University, and a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Helga Leitner, PhD, is Research Professor of Geography Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of its Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Institute on Inequality and Democracy. She was previously Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, and is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. One of the highlights of her career has been sojourns spent living, working, and traveling in many parts of the world. Dr. Leitner has published numerous books, articles, and book chapters on the politics of immigration and citizenship, immigrant incorporation, globalization, urban transformations and sustainability, grassroots movements, and socio-spatial theory. Dr. Leitner's research and teaching have been recognized with awards including Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the American Association of Geographers, the Award for Outstanding Contributions to Graduate and Professional Education from the University of Minnesota, and the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.