Explaining Global Poverty : A Critical Realist Approach

ISBN-13: 9780415568692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 250 str.

Branwen Gruffydd Jones

Opis

Gruffydd Jones' approach brings a book of real relevance for inequality in the modern world and gives an important platform from which to move forwards in the fight against poverty.

Spis treści

Part 1: Poverty, Need and Objectivity in Social Inquiry  1. Poverty and Development in Africa: Twentieth-Century Orthodoxies  2. Critical Perspectives: From Global Structure to Local Agency  3. Objectivity, Need and the Dialectics of Emancipation  4. Marxism, Imperialism and Africa  Part 2: Explaining Poverty: The Massive Presence of the Past and the Outside  5. The Presence of the Past: Slavery, Colonialism and Primitive Accumulation  6. The Presence of the Outside: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Production of Absence  7. Neo-Colonialism and the Reproduction of Poverty: Contemporary Dialectics of Accumulation and Dispossession.  Conclusion

O autorze

Branwen Gruffydd Jones