Geography

Global networks and local developments: Agendas for development geography

Document Type

Article

Abstract

It can be argued that development geography has left few traces either on the broader canvas of development theory or on the thought and practices of social actors engaging with material processes of change typically framed within the language of development. This paper argues that this is because the sub-field has been somewhat too case study oriented, and because its practitioners have, with some exceptions, kept themselves - or at least their identities - at the margins of debates within and among development actors. Yet development geography has much to contribute to on-going reflections on the nature of development. The paper explores themes that might be at the centre of an empirically grounded but theoretically oriented development geography that might speak to contemporary processes of globalisation and local change. It suggests that comparative case study work exploring the ways in which the development of capitalism and processes of intervention are both linked and vary across space still offers fruitful terrain for theory.

Publication Title

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Volume

94

Issue

3

First Page

297

Last Page

309

ISSN

0040-747X

DOI

10.1111/1467-9663.00258

Keywords

development, globalisation, livelihoods, networks, NGOs, transnationalism

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