Development TheoryThis 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". This is the second edition of this successful book. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, it:
Jan Nederveen brings together a huge range of experience and knowledge about the relationship between the economically advanced and the emerging, developing nations. |
Contents
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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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