Stuart Corbridge, Professor of Human Geography, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

• Contents: Introduction; Part I From Colonial Geography to Radical Development Geography: The degeneration of tropical geography, Marcus Power and James D. Sidaway; 3 approaches to the mapping of economic development in India, Joseph E. Schwartzberg; Manufacturing and the geography of development in tropical Africa, Akin L. Mabogunje; Geography and underdevelopment, I and II, David Slater; The white north and the population explosion, Keith Buchanan. Part II Gender and Households: Single-parent families: choice or constraint? The formation of female-headed households in Mexican shanty towns, Sylvia Chant; Converting the wetlands, engendering the environment: the intersection of gender with agrarian change in The Gambia, Judith Carney; Engendering everyday resistance: gender, patronage and production politics in rural Malaysia, Gillian Hart. Part III Development Alternatives and Identities: What causes poverty? A postmodern view, Lakshman Yapa; Modernization from below: an alternative indigenous development?, Anthony Bebbington; Constructing the dark continent: metaphor as geographic representation of Africa, Lucy Jarosz; Reading landscape meanings: state constructions and lived experiences in Singapore's Chinatown, Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Lily Kong. Part IV Resources Conflicts and Political Ecology: The political state and the management of mineral rents in capital-surplus economies: Botswana and Saudi Arabia, Richard M. Auty; Property vs. control: the state and forest management in the Indian Himalaya, Haripriya Rangan; Does 'participation' in common pool resource management help the poor? A social cost-benefit analysis of joint forest management in Jharkhand, India, Sanjay Kumar; Authority and environment: institutional landscapes in Rajasthan, India, Paul Robbins; Primitive ideas: protected area buffer zones and the politics of land in Africa, Roderick P. Neumann; This land is ours now: spatial imaginaries and the struggle for land in Brazil, Wendy Wolford. Part V Globalization and Its Discontents: The satanic geographies of globalization: uneven development in the 1990s, Neil Smith; Provincializing capital: the work of an agrarian past in South Indian industry, Sharad Chari; Spatialities of transnational resistance to globalization: the maps of grievances of the inter-continental caravan, David Featherstone; Women, NGOs and the contradictions of empowerment and disempowerment: a conversation, Richa Nagar and Saraswati Raju. Part VI The (Im)possibility of Development: Understanding 20 years of change in West-Central Nepal: continuity and change in lives and ideas, Piers Blaikie, John Cameron and David Seddon; The (im)possibility of development studies, Stuart Corbridge; Development and governmentality, Michael Watts; Name index.

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