{"product_id":"ethnicity-and-development-geographical-perspectives-hardback-9780471963547","title":"Ethnicity and Development; Geographical Perspectives (Hardback) 9780471963547","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEthnicity and Development\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGeographical Perspectives\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDenis Dwyer (Edited by), D Dwyer (Author), David Drakakis-Smith (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780471963547, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 April 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFollowing the collapse of international communism and the ending of the Cold War, the decade of the 1990s has seen international conflict replaced by internal, largely ethnic, conflict both of a violent and of a nonviolent nature. As a result, ethnicity has become one of the most important issues of the day. The social sciences and development studies have been slow to adopt new theoretical and practical perspectives with which to address this fundamentally changed situation. In traditional modernisation theory, ethnicity has been seen as an obstacle and claims to ethnic identity as anti-developmental. This book seeks to contribute towards a re-thinking of this position by focusing on the question of how policies of material improvement can be made compatible with the maintenance of fundamental ethnic identities which, in some senses, can even be considered a human right. Its argument is developed in two ways: firstly through a series of geographical studies, which examine the political and the economic contexts of the relationship between ethnicity and development through the consideration of significant national cases, such as South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mexico, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore; and secondly through overview chapters, which place the case studies both within an appropriate theoretical frame and within a broader practical perspective of ethnicity as a highly significant contemporary global phenomenon. Ethnicity and Development will make essential reading for students of geography, development studies and African studies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePartial table of contents:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e CONCEPTS OF ETHNICITY AND DEVELOPMENT.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ethnic Identity and Language Issues in Development (C. Williams)THE POLITICAL CONTEXT.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ethnicity and Political Development in South Africa (A. Lemon)Nationalism, Democracy and Development in Ethiopia (A. Zegeye \u0026amp;D. Abate).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e THE ECONOMIC CONTEXT.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cultural, Puralism and Economic Development: Perspectives From20th-Century Mexico and the Caribbean (C. Clarke).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The People of Isan, Thailand: Missing Out on the Economic Boom (M.Parnwell \u0026amp; J. Rigg).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Biology, life sciences [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Biology, life sciences\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Biology,%20life%20sciences%20%5BPS%5D%22\"\u003ePS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316701491480,"sku":"9780471963547","price":256.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780471963547.jpg?v=1781821955","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ethnicity-and-development-geographical-perspectives-hardback-9780471963547","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}