Geographies of Development in Latin America
Anthony Bebbington(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-0-415-34335-0 (ISBN)
Description
The last major intervention on Development in Latin America was arguably Arturo Escobar's Encountering Development. Nearly a decade on, his scathing indictment still casts its shadow of critical development studies.
Geographies of Latin American Development elaborates a framework for understanding development processes in Latin America that focuses on the geographically differentiated interactions between political economy, organized intervention, and livelihoods. It argues that intervention and livelihood do not simply derive from political economy. The first section elaborates this analytical framework and the overall argument of the book. The second section uses this framework to explore a series of cases drawn from Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia and Mexico, thus helping to ground discussion in specific historical and geographical contexts. Each case focuses on particular themes and above all the interventions of particular types of actors.
Bebbington draws on concepts within geography to both respond to and build on Escobar's interpretation in a way that retains many of his critical insights while recovering some of the emancipatory connotations of development, the diversity of its trajectories and possibilities and thus contributing more directly to development alternatives.
Geographies of Latin American Development elaborates a framework for understanding development processes in Latin America that focuses on the geographically differentiated interactions between political economy, organized intervention, and livelihoods. It argues that intervention and livelihood do not simply derive from political economy. The first section elaborates this analytical framework and the overall argument of the book. The second section uses this framework to explore a series of cases drawn from Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia and Mexico, thus helping to ground discussion in specific historical and geographical contexts. Each case focuses on particular themes and above all the interventions of particular types of actors.
Bebbington draws on concepts within geography to both respond to and build on Escobar's interpretation in a way that retains many of his critical insights while recovering some of the emancipatory connotations of development, the diversity of its trajectories and possibilities and thus contributing more directly to development alternatives.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
20 s/w Tabellen
20 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-34335-0 (9780415343350)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Interpretations of 'Development': Latin American and Wider Debates 2. Geographies of Latin American Development: Political Economies, Interventions, Livelihoods 3. Historical Geographies of Development in Latin America 4. Ecuador Transformed? Indigenous Movements, Local Developments and Political Economy 5. Neoliberal Odysseys in the Southern Cone: Chilean Miracles, Argentinian Tragedies 6. Uphill in the Andes: NGOs, Peasant Organizations and the Struggle for Rural Development 7. Brazil: Development as a Dirty Word 8. Colombia: Development and Violence 9. New Encounters with Development?