Overview: Addresses crucial issues of the 1960s and 1970s – decolonization, the quest for democracy, styles of economic development, and issues of race, colour, class and culture.Draws from the author‘s journal.This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume:
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