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The Violence of Development: Resource Depletion, Environmental Crises and Human Rights Abuses in Central America
Martin Mowforth
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Description for The Violence of Development: Resource Depletion, Environmental Crises and Human Rights Abuses in Central America
Paperback. Compelling analysis revealing the endemic violence and systematic impoverishment at the heart of 'development'. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLC; GTF; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
This book examines the failure of 'development' in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic.
Martin Mowforth shows how development is predicated on force and systematic violence, through which the world's most powerful governments, financial institutions and companies punish the global south.
Crucially, the analysis in The Violence of Development comes from many development project case studies and over sixty interviews with a range of people in Central America, including nuns, politicians, NGO representatives, trade unionists, indigenous leaders ... Read more
This book examines the failure of 'development' in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic.
Martin Mowforth shows how development is predicated on force and systematic violence, through which the world's most powerful governments, financial institutions and companies punish the global south.
Crucially, the analysis in The Violence of Development comes from many development project case studies and over sixty interviews with a range of people in Central America, including nuns, politicians, NGO representatives, trade unionists, indigenous leaders ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pluto Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745333946
SKU
V9780745333946
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Ref
99-50
About Martin Mowforth
Martin Mowforth lecturers at the University of Plymouth in the UK. He is the author of The Violence of Development (Pluto, 2014) and co-author of Tourism and Sustainability: Development, Globalisation and New Tourism in the Third World (2009).
Reviews for The Violence of Development: Resource Depletion, Environmental Crises and Human Rights Abuses in Central America
'Distinctively emphasises the violent and destructive effects of the development policies that have been implemented in Central America'
Linda Holland, Director of The Institute for Central American Studies (ICAS)
Linda Holland, Director of The Institute for Central American Studies (ICAS)