Underdevelopment theory: a geographical review

Abstract

Summary A review is undertaken of post‐war development geography. It focuses, in particular, on the influence of modernization, post‐modernization, dependency, neo‐modernization and various forms of marxist and neo‐marxist theories on geographical research. While geographers have accomplished substantial work on what are now termed peripheral capitalist societies they have remained dependent upon other disciplines, such as economics and sociology, for theoretical innovations. A critical review of the current polarization of development geography into a neo‐modernization school and a marxist school suggests that the former has little to offer. The challenge to geographers, therefore, is to work towards a theory of underdevelopment. Before progress can be made on this score geographers will have to overcome the problems stemming from the fragmentation of marxist research.

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