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Geopolitics and Development
Marcus Power
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Description for Geopolitics and Development
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, 40 black & white halftones, 30 b. BIC Classification: GTF; JPSL; RGCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror. It illustrates the various ways in which the meanings and relations of development as a discourse, an apparatus and an aspiration, have been geopolitically imagined and enframed. The book traces some of the multiple historical associations between development and diplomacy and seeks to underline the centrality of questions of territory, security, statehood and sovereignty to the pursuit of development, along with its enrolment in various (b)ordering practices. ... Read more
Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War and the War on Terror. It illustrates the various ways in which the meanings and relations of development as a discourse, an apparatus and an aspiration, have been geopolitically imagined and enframed. The book traces some of the multiple historical associations between development and diplomacy and seeks to underline the centrality of questions of territory, security, statehood and sovereignty to the pursuit of development, along with its enrolment in various (b)ordering practices. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
410
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415519571
SKU
V9780415519571
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Marcus Power
Marcus Power is a Professor of Human Geography at Durham University. His research interests include critical geopolitics and the spatialities of (post)development; visuality and popular geopolitics; energy geographies and low-carbon transitions in the global South; and China-Africa relations and the role of (re)emerging development donors in South-South cooperation. He is author of Rethinking Development Geographies (2003) and co-author of China's ... Read more
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