West African worlds : paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development / / edited by Reginald Cline-Cole and Elsbeth Robson

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 966.105; 337.166
• Soggetto topico: Economic development - Social aspects - Africa, West
• Soggetto geografico: Africa, West Economic conditions 1960-; Africa, West Social conditions 1960-
• Altri autori: Cline-ColeR. A RobsonElsbeth
• Note generali: At head of title: Developing Areas Research Group, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).; First published 2005 by Pearson Education.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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 ; 6 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
• Sommario/riassunto: West 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: West African worlds
• ISBN: 1-317-90493-1; 1-315-84779-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973661003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: DARG regional development series ; ; no. 6.