Development Theory'This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses' - Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Praise for the previous edition: 'This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies' - Keith Griffin, University of California, Riverside This is the second edition of this successful book. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the book: - situates students in the expanding field of development theory - provides an unrivalled guide to the strengths and weaknesses of competing theoretical approaches - explains key concepts - examines the shifts in theory - offers an agenda for the future In this book, the author brings a huge range of experience and knowledge about the relationship between the economically advanced and the emerging, developing nations. |
Contents
1Trends in Development Theory | 1 |
The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method | 19 |
Towards Critical Globalism | 36 |
4 Delinking or Globalization? | 54 |
Questions of Power | 64 |
6 My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development | 83 |
7 After Postdevelopment | 110 |
From Human Development to Social Development | 125 |
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Africa agenda alternative development paradigm Amin anthropology argues argument Asian centres chaos theory Chapter China civil society context crisis critique culture and development deconstruction delinking democratization dependency theory devel developing countries development cooperation development discourse development field development policy development studies development theory development thinking developmentalism digital divide discourse analysis diversity East Asia ecological economic growth emerging endogenous Escobar Eurocentrism global south hegemony Hettne holism human development ICT4D ideology India indigenous industrialization institutions intellectual involves Keynesian knowledge London mainstream development Marxism means ment modernization theory national culture Nederveen Pieterse neoclassical economics neoliberalism NGOs opment options participatory perspective political economy position post-development problem question reflexive reform relations role sector social capital social development social science sociology sovereign wealth funds strategy structural adjustment Third World tion tradition trends Washington consensus welfare western World Bank world-system theory