West African worlds : paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods, and development /

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Imprint:London : Routledge, 2014.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:DARG regional development series ; no. 6
DARG regional development series ; no. 6.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11306724
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Other authors / contributors:Cline-Cole, R. A., editor.
Robson, Elsbeth, editor.
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). Developing Areas Research Group.
ISBN:9781317904946
131790494X
9781315847795
1315847795
9781317904939
1317904931
9780130259493
9781317904922
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9781138164390
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0130259497
9780130259493
Notes:At head of title: Developing Areas Research Group, the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 19, 2016).
Other form:9780130259493
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development in West African worlds / Reginald Cline-Cole
  • 2. Regional political economy : retrospect and prospect / Adebayo Olukoshi
  • 3. Portraying West Africa's children : moral panics, imagined geographies and globalisation / Elsbeth Robson
  • 4. Fictional worlds in struggles over West African (under- )development? Kolawole Omotoso's The combat / Abioseh Michael Porter
  • 5. Urban bias, redistribution, and state collapse : the lessons of Sierra Leone / J. Barry Riddell
  • 6. Expanding the frontiers of integration : regional economic and security dynamics / David J. Francis
  • 7. Transformations in regional agriculture and family farming / Camilla Toulmin and Bara Gu©·ye
  • 8. The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement : 'social capital' and targeted development / Fergus Lyon and Gina Porter
  • 9. Work, time and space : Britain and West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ken Swindell
  • 10. State-building, national integration, gender and economic development in emergent regional democracies / Jimmy D. Kandeh and Joyce A. Kannan
  • 11. Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the central plateau of Burkina Faso / Simon P.J. Batterbury
  • 12. Conclusion : West African futures? / Reginald Cline-Cole and Elsbeth Robson.