LEADER 03848oam 2200625I 450 001 9910973661003321 005 20251117071126.0 010 $a1-317-90493-1 010 $a1-315-84779-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315847795 035 $a(CKB)3710000000602772 035 $a(EBL)4415035 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4415035 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4415035 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11161342 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL897980 035 $a(OCoLC)941696447 035 $a(OCoLC)958102143 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000602772 100 $a20180706e20142005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aWest African worlds $epaths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development /$fedited by Reginald Cline-Cole and Elsbeth Robson 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 225 1 $aDARG regional development series ;$vnumber 6 300 $aAt head of title: Developing Areas Research Group, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). 300 $aFirst published 2005 by Pearson Education. 311 08$a1-138-16439-9 311 08$a0-13-025949-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and tables; List of abbreviations; Contributors; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development in West African worlds; 2 Regional political economy: retrospect and prospect; 3 Portraying West Africa's children: moral panics, imagined geographies and globalisation; 4 Fictional worlds in struggles over West African (under-)development? Kolawole Omotoso's The Combat; 5 Urban bias, redistribution, and state collapse: the lessons of Sierra Leone 327 $a6 Expanding the frontiers of integration: regional economic and security dynamics7 Transformations in regional agriculture and family farming; 8 The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement: 'Social Capital' and targeted development; 9 Work, time and space: Britain and West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; 10 State-building, national integration, gender and economic development in emergent regional democracies; 11 Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso; 12 Conclusion: West African futures?; Index 330 $aWest African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa's most populous and arguably most externally focused region. With an emphasis on globalisation and modernisation, case studies and commentary are integrated throughout to highlight the concerns and issues of the region. Enriched by an impressive mix of West African voices, this text combines theory and application with policy and practice to address socio-economic change, the pursuit of livelihoods, and development within West Africa. 410 0$aDARG regional development series ;$vno. 6. 606 $aEconomic development$xSocial aspects$zAfrica, West 607 $aAfrica, West$xEconomic conditions$y1960- 607 $aAfrica, West$xSocial conditions$y1960- 615 0$aEconomic development$xSocial aspects 676 $a966.105 676 $a337.166 701 $aCline-Cole$b R. A$01858008 701 $aRobson$b Elsbeth$01858009 712 02$aRoyal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers).$bDeveloping Areas Research Group. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910973661003321 996 $aWest African worlds$94459200 997 $aUNINA