Rural-Urban Dynamics: Livelihoods, Mobility and Markets in African and Asian Frontiers

ISBN-13: 9781138867208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 212 str.

Jytte Agergaard; Niels Fold

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction (Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold and Katherine V. Gough)  2. Conceptualizing and Performing Comparison of Rural-urban Dynamics (Gough, Agergaard, Fold and Lasse Møller-Jensen)  3. Small Town Development in the Ghanaian Cocoa Frontier (Michael Helt Knudsen)  4. Living From Coffee in Vietnam’s Central Highlands: Susceptible Livelihoods and Diverse Settlement Transformation (Agergaard)  5. Rise and Fall of Smallholder Pineapple Production in Ghana: Changing Global Markets, Livelihoods and Settlement Growth (Gough and Fold)  6. Transforming Livelihoods and Settlements: Fruit Production and Urbanization in Vitenam’s Mekong Delta (Xuan Thanh Hoang and Cecilia Tacoli)  7. Agricultural Frontier Settlements: Markets, Livelihood Diversification and Small Town Development (Fold and Tacoli)  8. Handicrafts in Vietnam: Rural Urbanization in the Red River Delta (Gough and Dang Nguyen Anh)  9. A Revolution in the Thai Handicraft Industry? Handicrafts, Integration and Rural Development in Northern Thailand (Jonathan Rigg, Suriya Veeravongs, Piyawadee Rohitarachoon and Lalida Veeravongs)  10. From Farm to Factory: Village Change in a Rice Growing Region
(Rigg, Veeravongs, Rohitarachoon and Veeravongs)  11. Handicraft and Manufacturing Frontier: Transforming Livelihoods, Re-shaping Settlements (Gough and Rigg)  12. Rural Urban Transitions in Tanzania’s Northwest Mining Frontier (Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Rosemarie Mwaipopo)  13. The Dynamics of the Gold Mining Industry and its Effects on Settlements and Livelihoods in Wassa West District, Ghana (Yankson)  14. Frontier Mining Settlements: Livelihood Promises and Predicaments (Bryceson and Yankson)  15. Conclusion (Fold, Gough and Agergaard)