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Second Edition
Encountering and Contesting Development
Eric Sheppard, Philip W. Porter, David R. Faust, and Richa Nagar
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1. Introduction
2. Measuring, Describing, and Mapping Difference and Development
3. Knowing the Third World: Colonial Encounters
4. Knowing the Third World: The Development Decades
5. The Third World and Neoliberal Globalization
II. Differentiated Livelihoods and the Nonhuman World
6. Geographies of Population: Discourse and Politics
7. Contested Environments: The Entanglements of Environment, Development, and Globalization
8. Disease and Health
9. Uncertain Rains: The Atmospheric Energy Cycle and the Hydrologic Cycle
10. Other Challenges to Rural Livelihood: Soils, Vegetation, and Pests
11. Nature as Latitudinal Trickster: The Carbon Cycle and Plant Growth
12. The Management of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems: The Pokot of West Central Kenya—An Indigenous Knowledge System
III. Differentiated Social Relations Encountering Global Strategies
13. The Historical Geography of Colonialism and the Slave Trade
14. Colonialism as Spatial and Labor Control System
15. The End of Colonialism and the Promise of Free Trade
16. Trading Primary Commodities
17. Peripheral Industrialization: Paths and Strategies
18. The Earth's Crust as Resource
19. Urbanization, Migration, and Spatial Polarization
20. Transnational Production
21. Foreign Branch Plants and Economic Growth
22. Money and Global Finance Markets, with Bongman Seo
23. Borrowing Money: Aid, Debt, and Dependence, with Bongman Seo
24. Toward Different Worlds
