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West African Worlds
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West African Worlds book
Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development
West African Worlds
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West African Worlds book
Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development
ByReginald Cline-Cole, Elsbeth Robson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2005
eBook Published 3 February 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
Pages 312
eBook ISBN 9781315847795
Subjects Geography
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Cline-Cole, R., & Robson, E. (2005). West African Worlds: Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315847795
ABSTRACT
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.TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|40 pages
Paths through socio-economic change, livelihoods and development in West African worlds
ByReginald Cline-Cole
chapter 3|22 pages
Portraying West Africa’s children: moral panics, imagined geographies and globalisation
ByElsbeth Robson
chapter 4|22 pages
Fictional worlds in struggles over West African (under-)development? Kolawole Omotoso’s The Combat
ByAbioseh Michael Porter
chapter 5|20 pages
Urban bias, redistribution, and state collapse: the lessons of Sierra Leone
ByJ. Barry Riddell
chapter 6|22 pages
Expanding the frontiers of integration: regional economic and security dynamics
ByDavid J. Francis
chapter 7|40 pages
Transformations in regional agriculture and family farming
ByCamilla Toulmin, Bara Guèye
chapter 8|16 pages
The social relations of economic life and networks of civic engagement: ‘Social Capital’ and targeted development
ByFergus Lyon, Gina Porter
chapter 9|26 pages
Work, time and space: Britain and West Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
ByKen Swindell
chapter 10|26 pages
State-building, national integration, gender and economic development in emergent regional democracies
ByJimmy D. Kandeh, Joyce A. Kannan
chapter 11|22 pages
Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the Central Plateau of Burkina Faso
BySimon P.J. Batterbury