Most geographical studies of the 'Third World' - or the Global
South - focus their attention on the challenge of promoting
development and explaining why the Third World is also the Poor
World. This text extracts the Global South from the shadow of
development and examines people's lives and livelihoods in their
own terms. It takes as its point of departure the need to reveal
the myriad ways that people 'get by' in the day-to-day sense of the
term and how modernization is re-working the human landscape.
An Everyday Geography of the Global South focuses on local
spaces, individual experiences, household strategies and the power
and role of agency over structure in terms of explanation. Taking a
broad perspective of livelihoods, it draws on more than 90 case
studies from 36 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to
examine how people are engaging and living with modernity. This
extends from changes in the ways that households operate, to how
and why people take on new work and acquire new skills, how
migration and mobility are become increasingly common features of
existence, and how aspirations and expectations are being reworked
under the influence of modernisation.
To date, there is no book which takes such an approach to
building an understanding of the Global South. In focusing on the
Global South but not on development, in beginning with the personal
and the everyday, in using the experience of the non-Western world
to illuminate and inform mainstream debates in geography, and in
beginning from the lived experiences of 'ordinary' people, this
book will provide an alternative and different insight into a range
of geographical debates. For students, theusefulness of the book
will lie in its clarity of argument, its use of detailed case
studies to inform and substantiate the general argument and in
providing a geography text which engages with the majority world
that is the Global South.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
June 2007 |
| First published: |
August 2007 |
| Authors: |
Jonathan Rigg
|
| Dimensions: |
246 x 174mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
234 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-37608-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-415-37608-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780415376082 |
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