Contents: Introduction -- Illuminating the dark side of development -- Geographers and the ^'Tropics^' -- Development thinking :where is the magical ^'Kingdom of abundance^'? -- Thirdworldism and the imagination of global development --Post-colonial geographies of development -- Globalisation,government and power -- The dissemination of development -- ^'Theorising back^' : views from the South and the globalisation of resistance -- Conclusions : resisting thetemptations of remedies, mirages and fairy-tales