Jeff Neilson, Bill Pritchard

Value Chain Struggles (eBook, ePUB)

Institutions and Governance in the Plantation Districts of South India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Adopting a 'global value chain' approach, Value Chain Struggles investigates the impact of new trading arrangements in the coffee and tea sectors on the lives and in the communities of growers in South India. * Offers a timely analysis of the social hardships of tea and coffee producers * Takes the reader into the lives of growers in Southern India who are struggling with issues of value chain restructuring * Reveals the ways that the restructuring triggers a series of political and economic struggles across a range of economic, social, and environmental arenas * Puts into perspective claims about the impacts of recent changes to global trading relations on rural producers in developing countries

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444355444
• Artikelnr.: 38306544

Autorenporträt

Jeff Neilson maintains primary research interests in rural development and environmental issues across various Asian countries. He completed his PhD with a study of the Indonesian coffee industry, has authored twelve refereed publications, and has worked as a consultant to various international development agencies. Dr Neilson is currently employed as a post-doctoral research fellow in geography at the University of Sydney, Australia. Bill Pritchard is an Economic Geographer whose research has focused on global change in agriculture, food and rural places. He has authored two books, edited four others, and written more than forty refereed publications. He is an active member and former convener of the Australia & New Zealand Agri-Food Research Network, a member of the Australian Research Council Research Network on Spatially Integrated Social Sciences, and Steering Committee Member of the International Geographical Union Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Part I: The Urbanization of Neoliberalism: TheoreticalFoundations.

Part II: Cities and State Restructuring: Pathways andContradictions.

Part III: New Geographies of Power: Exclusion and Injustice.

Rezensionen

"...a fantastic, empirically rich and theoretically innovative,exploration of the macropolitical realignment and ongoing spatialrestructuring that have taken place since the 1970s. This iscutting-edge urban research: not only students of contemporarycities and their institutional geographies, but municipal policymakers as well as activists concerned with reshaping cities towardsmore democratic and socially just ends will find this collectionindispensable." Margit Mayer, Freie Universität, Berlin

"This thoughtful and thought-provoking book examines thedynamics and consequences of neoliberal policies in the unstablegeography of contemporary cities. The book synthesizes a range ofcurrent explorations of urban space and neoliberal ideology, andends with a new and coherent conceptualization of what is happeningon the ground around us." Peter Marcuse, Professor of UrbanPlanning, Columbia University

"Brenner and Theodore have done an excellent job in bringingtogether an innovative collection of work on urban restructuring -a collection that combines some of the most interesting insightsfrom critical political economy and radical geography to explainimportant aspects of the spatial reconfiguration of capitalismsince the 1970s." Stephen Gill, Professor of Political Science,University of York, Toronto

"Brenner and Theodore have put together a stimulating series ofinvestigations that explore how recent economic strategies, stateagendas and spatial logics produce urban landscapes marked bystriking levels of inequality and social exclusion. This collectionprovides a theoretically sophisticated and politically incisiveexamination of the ways in which restructuring cities have becomecentral to the new geographies of power."
William Sites, University of Chicago, author of RemakingNew York: Primitive Globalization and the Politics of UrbanCommunity

"This is a stimulatimg text, the ambitious designs of whichprovide a rich theoretical resource" Peter Sunley, University ofEdinburgh for Progress in Human Geography

"Exploring 'the spaces of neoliberalism' isclearly a project whose time has come. The current collection ofpapers does an excellent job in laying out some of the substantiveissues involved, the nature of the changes that the neoliberalagenda has conditioned, and the conflicts that its imposition hasgenerated." Environment and Planning D: Society andSpace