Violence of Development : Resource Depletion, Environmental Crises and Human Rights Abuses in Central America

Mowforth, Martin

ISBN 10: 074533394X / ISBN 13: 9780745333946

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2014

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Inhaltsangabe:

This book examines the failure of ‘development’ in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic. Martin Mowforth shows how development is predicated on force and systematic violence, through which the world's most powerful governments, financial institutions and companies punish the global south. Crucially, the analysis in The Violence of Development comes from many development project case studies and over sixty interviews with a range of people in Central America, including nuns, politicians, NGO representatives, trade unionists, indigenous leaders and human rights defenders. This book is a compelling synthesis of first-hand research and development theory.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Martin Mowforth lecturers at the University of Plymouth in the UK. He is the author of The Violence of Development (Pluto, 2014) and co-author of Tourism and Sustainability: Development, Globalisation and New Tourism in the Third World (2009).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Violence of Development : Resource Depletion...
Verlag: Pluto Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: As New