{"id":705,"date":"2002-12-31T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2002-12-31T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/?p=705"},"modified":"2016-08-03T12:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:09:03","slug":"geographies-of-development-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/2002\/peer-refereed-articles\/geographies-of-development-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographies of development in Latin America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in the <em><span style=\"color: #000000\">Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Yearbook,<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>Vol 27 pp. 105-148 |<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Introduction:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Powerful,&#8221; &#8220;evocative,&#8221; &#8220;imprecise,&#8221; &#8220;debated&#8221;&#8211;all adjectives that might\u00a0come to mind when we think of the word &#8220;development.&#8221; &#8220;Development&#8221;\u00a0has been used to refer to modernization, economic growth, empowerment,\u00a0the expansion of human capabilities, and change of various forms and guises.\u00a0In Latin America, development projects have: built dams but also campesino-\u00a0managed irrigation systems; replaced tropical forest with pasture, but also\u00a0reforested; fostered education for critical consciousness and also improved\u00a0formal education; promoted agroecology and Green Revolution techniques.<br \/>\nIn other words, much has passed for development, and there have often\u00a0been profound and perhaps irreconcilable differences between different types of development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Yearbook,\u00a0Vol 27 pp. 105-148 | Introduction: &#8220;Powerful,&#8221; &#8220;evocative,&#8221; &#8220;imprecise,&#8221; &#8220;debated&#8221;&#8211;all adjectives that might\u00a0come to mind when we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34905,34831],"tags":[24544,34896,31555],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34905","category-peer-refereed-articles","tag-development","tag-development-studies","tag-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}