World of Difference (eBook)

Eric Sheppard is Regents Professor of Geography and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota. Among his awards are Distinguished Scholarship Honors, Association of American Geographers; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; Fesler-Lampert Professor in Public Humanities, University of Minnesota; and Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. He is coauthor or coeditor of several books and over 100 articles.  Philip W. Porter is Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota, where he taught geography from 1957 to 2000. He has specialized in African geography, with particular emphasis on livelihood systems and the biophysical environments in which they are pursued, as well as the political economies in which they are embedded. His first research was in Liberia and he subsequently did research in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. He has taught courses dealing with third world development and underdevelopment. He has also had a research and teaching interest in cartography and remote sensing.  David R. Faust is the Librarian for South Asia at the Ames Library of South Asia, University of Minnesota. He has published articles on development politics, nongovernmental organizations, and the disjunctures related to English-medium education in India.  Richa Nagar is Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is coauthor or coeditor of two prior books and has published articles on space and communal politics among South Asians in postcolonial Tanzania and the politics of empowerment in India.

I. Differentiated Ways of Knowing1. Introduction2. Measuring, Describing, and Mapping Difference and Development3. Knowing the Third World: Colonial Encounters4. Knowing the Third World: The Development Decades5. The Third World and Neoliberal GlobalizationII. Differentiated Livelihoods and the Nonhuman World6. Geographies of Population: Discourse and Politics7. Contested Environments: The Entanglements of Environment, Development, and Globalization8. Disease and Health9. Uncertain Rains: The Atmospheric Energy Cycle and the Hydrologic Cycle10. Other Challenges to Rural Livelihood: Soils, Vegetation, and Pests11. Nature as Latitudinal Trickster: The Carbon Cycle and Plant Growth12. The Management of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems: The Pokot of West Central Kenya—An Indigenous Knowledge SystemIII. Differentiated Social Relations Encountering Global Strategies13. The Historical Geography of Colonialism and the Slave Trade14. Colonialism as Spatial and Labor Control System15. The End of Colonialism and the Promise of Free Trade16. Trading Primary Commodities17. Peripheral Industrialization: Paths and Strategies18. The Earth's Crust as Resource19. Urbanization, Migration, and Spatial Polarization20. Transnational Production21. Foreign Branch Plants and Economic Growth22. Money and Global Finance Markets, with Bongman Seo23. Borrowing Money: Aid, Debt, and Dependence, with Bongman Seo24. Toward Different Worlds