Hope and path development in ‘left-behind’ places – a Southern perspective
以赞比亚西部省为例，提出被遗忘地区可能存在希望而非绝望，且这种希望可能作为生成机制推动安静的路径形成过程，挑战了主流文献中北方案例主导的认知。
Despite universalising ambition, the literature on ‘left-behind’ places is dominated by viral, noisy and Northern examples. Therefore, we examine the case of Zambia’s Western Province, a severely ‘left-behind’ place, to make two arguments based on a Southern experience. First, a systematic conceptualisation of hope shows that hope rather than hopelessness can prevail in ‘left-behind’ places. Second, hope against-all-odds may function as generative mechanism for quiet rather than noisy path-formation processes. Therefore, mundane path development in the (Southern) periphery requires attention if the literature on ‘left-behind’ places is to inform more foundational theorisations of uneven development.