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Rural-Urban Dynamics - Livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers (Paperback)
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Rural-Urban Dynamics - Livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
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It has increasingly been recognised that rural and urban areas are
inextricably interlinked. This book adopts a fresh approach to the
issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing
nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites
across four countries of Africa and Asia. Building on detailed
fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Tanzania, Vietnam and Thailand, the
authors explore how settlements and livelihoods are being
transformed as long-term inhabitants and recent migrants embrace
new economic activities many of which are linked to global markets.
The book is structured around the concept of 'frontier' which is
conceptualized as being a dynamic space where the forces of
economic, demographic and social change are brought to bear. The
study sites include agricultural frontiers (coffee, cocoa,
pineapples and fresh fruit), handicraft and manufacturing
frontiers, and mining frontiers (gold and diamonds). In all of the
cases, global value chain dynamics have played a pivotal role in
shaping local livelihoods. Some settlements are developing into new
urban centres whilst others are suffering from a boom and bust
experience due to the unreliability of export markets. The
similarities and differences between the frontier settlements are
drawn out by comparing frontiers of similar types and by
highlighting the theoretical and policy implications of the
findings from all the frontier types. The originality of the book
lies in its combination of conceptual clarity, methodological
coherence and empirical richness. By combining detailed empirical
findings with theoretical insight from debates on livelihoods,
global value chains, mobility patterns, settlement dynamics and
rural-urban relations, the book sheds new light on these issues
within an overall framework of development trajectories in Africa
and Asia. Given scholars' and international agencies' current
interest in the spatial dimensions of economic development, this
contribution is particularly timely with its fresh geographical
approach to development issues; this book is a pertinent and
authoritative read for anyone researching or learning in the field
of development.
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