The development process : a spatial perspective / / Akin L. Mabogunje

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460605003321
• Autore: Mabogunje Akin L.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-315-65848-8; 1-317-33119-2; 1-317-33118-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Library Editions: Human Geography ; ; Volume 14
• Disciplina: 338.9/001
• Soggetti: Economic development; Space in economics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1980 by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of tables; List of figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; Part One: Orientation; 2 Defining development; Development as economic growth; Development as modernization; Development as distributive justice; Development as socio-economic transformation; The nature of underdevelopment; 3 Geographic space and development; Space as part of socio-economic formation; Defining spatial structure; Elements of spatial organization; Development as spatial reorganization; Part Two: Rural Development4 Collapse of traditional rural structures; Traditional rural structures in Africa; The impact of colonial exploitation; Effects on the traditional rural structure; Post-colonial aggravation of rural conditions; 5 The nature of rural development; A critique of rural development projects; The nature of rural spatial reorganization; Social relations in spatial reorganization; 6 Strategy of rural development; Conceptual basis for the strategy of the 'big push'; Empirical evidence: Britain, United States, Soviet Union, China, Tanzania; Part Three: Urban Development; 7 Emergent urbanizationTypology of colonial urbanization; Colonial impact on the traditional urban economy; Post-colonial urbanization ; and import-substituting industrialization; Emergent urban systems in underdeveloped countries; Patterns of urbanization; 8 Urban crisis of underdevelopment; Growth of the urban population; Urban unemployment and the growth of the informal sector; Environmental problems of cities in underdeveloped countries; Social alienation and urban management; 9 Urban system and national development; The conceptual basis of urban development; Demand factors in the strategy of urbanizationTechnological choices and industrial development; Programme of urban development; Urban planning and management; Part Four: National Integration; 10 Integrating the national population; Population growth; Population density; The concept of a human carrying capacity; The role of social development; Population mobility and spatial interaction; Population planning and national integration; 11 Information flows; The nature of information; Network of information channels; Information flow and popular mobilization; Developing a control information system12 Movements of goods and services; Colonial spatial integrative strategy; A model of transportation development; Transportation for self-centred development; Organizing the flow of goods and services; 13 External relations; Problems of external dependent relations; The role of multinational corporations; The metropolitan interests; The constraints of future global resources; The concept of selective closure; The imperative of regional organizations; 14 Conclusion; The investment-mobilization distinction; The ideological smokescreen; The question of class analysis

Shutting Down the Streets : Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era / / Luis A. Fernandez, Amory Starr, Christian Scholl

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480815503321
• Autore: Fernandez Luis A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• ISBN: 0-8147-3835-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.2090511
• Soggetti: Anti-globalization movement; Globalization -- Political aspects; Political violence; Social control; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- 1 What Is Going On? -- 2 The Geography of Global Governance -- 3 Toward a Political Economy of the Social Control of Dissent -- 4 Policing Alter globalization Dissent -- 5 A Taxonomy of Political Violence -- 6 Antirepression -- 7 Democracy Out of Order -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: Recently, a wall was built in eastern Germany. Made of steel and cement blocks, topped with razor barbed wire, and reinforced with video monitors and movement sensors, this wall was not put up to protect a prison or a military base, but rather to guard a three-day meeting of the finance ministers of the Group of Eight (G8). The wall manifested a level of security that is increasingly commonplace at meetings regarding the global economy. The authors of Shutting Down the Streets have directly observed and participated in more than 20 mass actions against global in North America and Europe, beginning with the watershed 1999 WTO meetings in Seattle and including the 2007 G8 protests in Heiligendamm. Shutting Down the Streets is the first book to conceptualize the social control of dissent in the era of ; alterglobalization. Based on direct observation of more than 20 global summits, the book demonstrates that social control is not only global, but also preemptive, and that it relegates dissent to the realm of criminality. The charge is insurrection, but the accused have no weapons. The authors document in detail how social control forecloses the spaces through which social movements nurture the development of dissent and effect disruptive challenges.