Explores the diversity of places, regions and countries, individuals and societies, offering an invaluable insight into the themes of political and economic development, and From its starting point of difference, this book explains how it is possible to overcome the stereotyping and generalizations about dictatorship and terrorism, 'banana republics', shanty town poverty and the Latin character. Exploring Southern power-space relationships, the author also examines wider processes of globalization that are linking spaces and transgressing boundaries. Barton stresses the need for inclusionary political geography across hemispheres, nation-states, regions, races and ethnic groups, gender and sexuality, and for recognition that it is citizens who wield the power and shape the nation-states that shape them.