Marcus Power

Geopolitics and Development (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134614462
• Artikelnr.: 55120807

Autorenporträt

Marcus Power is a Professor of Human Geography at Durham University. His research interests include critical geopolitics and the spatialities of (post)development; visuality and popular geopolitics; energy geographies and low-carbon transitions in the global South; and China-Africa relations and the role of (re)emerging development donors in South-South cooperation. He is author of Rethinking Development Geographies (2003) and co-author of China's Resource Diplomacy in Africa: Powering Development? (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: geopolitics and the assemblage of development 2.
Post-colonialism, geopolitics and the periphery 3. Modernising the Third
World 4. Cold War geopolitics and Foreign Aid 5. The State and Development
6. The political geographies of contemporary US foreign assistance 7. The
rise of the South 8. Conclusions: development and (counter)insurgency