Southern Exposure: International Development and the Global South in the Twenty-First Century [Paperback]

Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1565491742 | ISBN-13: 978-1565491748 | Publication Date: September 2003

* An issues-based approach to global change from a Southern perspective
* A popular introductory text on contemporary development issues
* A great companion to John Isbister’s Promises Not Kept
* Replete with illustrative case studies

In this era of rapid globalization, increasing poverty and inequality are creating fertile fields for anger, despair, and violence. This introductory text addresses key political and economic challenges facing Southern countries as they engage with the global system. Through the eyes of ordinary people in the Global South, such as small farmers in Kenya and garment workers in Bangladesh, Thomas-Slayter identifies critical issues that will shape twenty-first century development.

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Unique features:
-Issues-based approach to global change
-Gender and culturally aware
-Full of illustrative case studies

About the Author

Barbara P. Thomas-Slayter is Research Professor at the International Development, Community, and Environment department (IDCE), Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Kumarian Press (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565491742
• ISBN-13: 978-1565491748
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #154,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for Graduate Students as well, February 19, 2004

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George H. Axinn (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Southern Exposure: International Development and the Global South in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)

Having just finished reading Southern-Exposure from cover to cover (but not in one sitting), I feel compelled to give you some positive-positive feedback! As one who now teaches only graduate seminars on international rural development, I wish I had read something like this years ago.

I began international development work for Michigan State University in 1960, and worked in Nigeria until after the Biafran war had started in 1967. Since then my wife and I have had numerous international assignments in many different countries -- some the same places in which you give small cases. Our longest periods of residential assignments have been in Nepal and then in India and Bhutan. But prior to that each of us has worked with rural people in the many different parts of the Global South -- in Africa, Asia, and Latin America -- for UNICEF, for FAO, for host governments, etc.

If only we could have read a book like this in 1960! Over the years, we have prepared dozens of professionals for international development work; and had hundreds in class. Your back cover says: "This book will become a widely adopted introductory text on development issues for undergraduate students..." It will also become widely used for graduate students! Actually, I have already assigned it for a book review by one of the students in my current on-line graduate seminar.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost perfect, January 21, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Southern Exposure: International Development and the Global South in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)

I've been teaching "Third World Politics" for about 10 years and have yet to find the "perfect" textbook. "Southern Exposure" comes closest to meeting my expectations. I look forward to using the book and hope that my students will enjoy it as much as I did.