Rural-Urban Dynamics (eBook, PDF)

Livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers
Redaktion: Agergaard, Jytte; Gough, Katherine; Fold, Niels

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Produktbeschreibung

This book adopts a fresh approach to the issue of rural-urban dynamics through a study of the changing nature of livelihoods, mobility and markets in ten study sites across four countries of Africa and Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135256999
• Artikelnr.: 43072699

Autorenporträt

Jytte Agergaard is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen. Much of her research has focused on Nepal where she has carried out extensive fieldwork for research on various aspects of social development including gender inequalities, migration and mobility dynamics/patterns and education. She has also been concerned with recent trends in human geography, especially current trends in social geography and geographies of globalisation. She is a member of a number of networks on development research in Denmark and abroad. Niels Fold is Professor at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen. He has recently participated in a research programme on globalisation and economic restructuring in Africa, in which he worked on global agro-industrial chains with relevance for perennial crops in Ghana (cocoa, oil palm, shea nuts). Previously Niels has worked on industrial development in Malaysia, both on upgrading processes in the palm oil industry and on local industrialisation trajectories (Penang). His current research interests include a comparison of the dynamics of cross-continental food commodity chains. Katherine V. Gough is a British trained geographer who is employed as Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen. Her main research focus is urbanisation in developing countries with a focus on urban land and housing markets, urban governance and civil society, home-based enterprises and urban youth. Her principle research areas are Latin America and West Africa, especially Ghana where she has been mainly working in the peri-urban area of Accra. As part of a comparative project on urban youth she will conduct research in Hanoi in spring 2004. Katherine works in an advisory capacity to Danida on urban issues and together with Cecilia Tacoli has run a workshop for Danida employees on rural-urban linkages.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction (Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold and Katherine V. Gough) 2.
Conceptualizing and Performing Comparison of Rural-urban Dynamics (Gough,
Agergaard, Fold and Lasse Møller-Jensen) 3. Small Town Development in the
Ghanaian Cocoa Frontier (Michael Helt Knudsen) 4. Living From Coffee in
Vietnam's Central Highlands: Susceptible Livelihoods and Diverse Settlement
Transformation (Agergaard) 5. Rise and Fall of Smallholder Pineapple
Production in Ghana: Changing Global Markets, Livelihoods and Settlement
Growth (Gough and Fold) 6. Transforming Livelihoods and Settlements: Fruit
Production and Urbanization in Vitenam's Mekong Delta (Xuan Thanh Hoang and
Cecilia Tacoli) 7. Agricultural Frontier Settlements: Markets, Livelihood
Diversification and Small Town Development (Fold and Tacoli) 8. Handicrafts
in Vietnam: Rural Urbanization in the Red River Delta (Gough and Dang
Nguyen Anh) 9. A Revolution in the Thai Handicraft Industry? Handicrafts,
Integration and Rural Development in Northern Thailand (Jonathan Rigg,
Suriya Veeravongs, Piyawadee Rohitarachoon and Lalida Veeravongs) 10. From
Farm to Factory: Village Change in a Rice Growing Region
(Rigg, Veeravongs, Rohitarachoon and Veeravongs) 11. Handicraft and
Manufacturing Frontier: Transforming Livelihoods, Re-shaping Settlements
(Gough and Rigg) 12. Rural Urban Transitions in Tanzania's Northwest Mining
Frontier (Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Rosemarie Mwaipopo) 13. The Dynamics of
the Gold Mining Industry and its Effects on Settlements and Livelihoods in
Wassa West District, Ghana (Yankson) 14. Frontier Mining Settlements:
Livelihood Promises and Predicaments (Bryceson and Yankson) 15. Conclusion
(Fold, Gough and Agergaard)