An Everyday Geography of the Global South

ISBN-13: 9780415376099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 231 str.

Jonathan Rigg

Opis

Taking a broad perspective of livelihoods, this book draws on more than ninety case studies from thirty-six countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to examine how people are engaging and living with modernity. It provides an alternative insight into a range of geographical debates.

Recenzje

" Jonathan Rigg draws from over 90 case studies in 36 countries to challenge standard topdown approaches to understanding the dynamics of poverty, development, and globalization in the Global South. He approaches his subject with a refreshing humility toward the characters—rickshaw wallas, migrant shrimp-farmers, single-mother traders, subsistence farmers—who people this investigation." -- JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, VOL. 50, NO. 2, 2010

Spis treści

1. What's With the Everyday?: The Everyday, Globalization and the Global South  2. Structures and Agencies: Lives, Living and Livelihoods  3. Life Styles and Life Courses: The Structures and Rhythms of Everyday Life  4. Making a Living in the Global South: Livelihood Transitions  5. Living with Modernity  6. Living on the Move  7. Governing the Everyday  8. Alternatives: The Everyday and Resistance  9. The Structures of the Everyday

O autorze

Jonathan Rigg is Professor of Geography at Durham University. His research interests include development in the South-East Asian region, rural and agrarian change, and political ecology.