Human Geography

Monthly Archives: January 2014

Human Geography 7(1)

Articles The World is Bumpy: Power, Uneven Development and the Impact of New ICTs on South African Manufacturing Pádraig Carmody Low-Wage Capitalism, Social Difference, and Nature-Dependent Production: A Study of the Conditions of Workers in Shrimp Aquaculture Raju Das Dead
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The World is Bumpy: Power, Uneven Development and the Impact of New ICTs on South African Manufacturing

By Pádraig Carmody Numerous academics and policy makers now assert Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) marginalization in the global economy is being reversed by an information technology revolution. However, while many claims are made for new ICTs – and mobile phones in
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Low-Wage Capitalism, Social Difference, and Nature-Dependent Production: A Study of the Conditions of Workers in Shrimp Aquaculture

By Raju J. Das Internationally, neoliberalism is often associated with the export-oriented production of nontraditional agricultural goods from poorer to richer countries. Shrimp aquaculture is a very important aspect of this process. Economic geographers, sociologists, and others have critically analyzed
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