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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Geopolitics And The Assemblage Of Development; Introduction: the anti-politics of development; Theorising (post- )development; Critical geopolitics and development; Situating development historically; An Afrocentric focus; The structure of the book; 2. Post-Colonialism, Geopolitics And The Periphery; Introduction: the changing metageographies of development; Tropicality and Orientalism; The rise of the Area Studies complex |
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IR, Political Geography and DevelopmentPlacing Africa in IR and Political Geography; Conclusions: towards a subaltern geopolitics of development; 3. Modernising The "Third World"; Introduction: a global history of modernisation; The Third World as ideological project; The Soviet Union and the "romance" of economic development; The US and the Third World; Arresting the communist "contagion": theorising modernisation in the US; JFK, the "decade of development" and the rise of "developmentese"; Conclusions: the ghosts of Cold War modernisation; 4. Cold War Geopolitics And Foreign Aid |
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Introduction: Cold War foreign aid and the battle for the Third WorldFrom the periphery to the periphery: the USSR and foreign aid; China in Africa: advancing a "subaltern globalism"?; US foreign aid and the countering of insurgency; Conclusions: an emerging governmental rationality of development; 5. The State And Development; Introduction: the state is dead, long live the state; Theorising the state; States, infrastructures and resource geographies; The state and insurgency; Contesting state power: social movements; Conclusions: spaces of subaltern struggle |
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6. The Political Geographies Of Contemporary Us Foreign AssistanceIntroduction: reconstruction as war; The securitisation of development; Reinventing USAID: the security-economy nexus; The revival of development-based counterinsurgency; The US and counter-insurgency in Africa: draining the "swamp of terror"; Conclusions: (re)militarising development; 7. The Rise Of The South; Introduction: the revival of South-South development cooperation; Brazil as a "conduit for pan-Southern action"; China as emerging global development hegemon; South Korea: exporting a story of developmental "success." |
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India-Africa development cooperationConclusions: the "emancipatory" potential of (re- )emerging donors?; 8. Conclusions: Development And (Counter- )Insurgency; The excess of development; Post-development, state power and insurgency; Re-centring Africa and development in Political Geography and IR; Modernisation and Cold War geopolitics; Development and Pacification; SSDC and the changing dynamics of development diplomacy; The shifting spatialities of contemporary development; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror. It illustrates the various ways in which the meanings and relations of development as a discourse, an apparatus and an aspiration, have been geopolitically imagined and enframed. The book traces some of the multiple historical associations between development and diplomacy and seeks to underline the centrality of questions of territory, security, statehood and sovereignty to the pursuit of development, along with its enrolment in various (b)ordering practices. In making a case for greater attention to the evolving nexus between geopolitics and development and with particular reference to Africa, the book explores the historical and contemporary geopolitics of foreign aid, the interconnections between development and counterinsurgency, the role of the state and social movements in (re)imagining development, the rise of (re)emerging donors like China, India and Brazil, and the growing significance of South-South flows of investment, trade and development cooperation. Drawing on post-colonial and postdevelopment approaches and on some of the author's own original empirical research, this is an essential, critical and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex and dynamic political geographies of global development. Primarily intended for scholars and post-graduate students in development studies, human geography, African studies and international relations, this book provides an engaging, invaluable and up-to-date resource for making sense of the complex entanglement between geopolitics and development, past and present |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
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Geopolitics -- History -- 20th century
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Geopolitics -- History -- 21st century
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Economic development -- History -- 20th century
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Economic development -- History -- 21st century
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Postcolonialism.
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postcolonialism.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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Economic development
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Geopolitics
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Postcolonialism
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020693029 |
| ISBN |
9780203494424 |
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0203494423 |
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9781134614462 |
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1134614462 |
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9781134614530 |
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1134614535 |
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9781134614394 |
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113461439X |
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