Critical Reflections on Development

ISBN-13: 9781349351039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 252 str.

D. Kingsbury

Opis

Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this bookbrings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics inan attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development."

Spis treści

Introduction; Damien Kingsbury 1. Reconceptualising Development: the Painful Job of Thinking; Andrew Hewett & Chris Roche 2. The g7+ Group of Fragile States: Towards Improved International Engagement; Simon Fenby 3. After the Washington Consensus; John McKay 4. Civil War and the Limits of Decolonization Capitalism; Rohan Bastin 5. The Good Governance-Human Rights Nexus; Damien Kingsbury 6. Reconceptualising International Aid and Development NGOs; Paul Ronalds 7. A Trojan Horse? International Development Agencies Embrace Business Practices and Mental Models; Mark McPeak 8. Seeing the Forest for the Carbon: How Might REDD+ Schemes Impact Forest-dependent Communities?; Craig Thorburn 9. The Turn to Civil Society?; Sue Kenny 10. Feminist Reflection on the Declarations of Paris and Dili; Elizabeth Reid 11. Reproduction and Real Property in Rural China: Three Decades of Development and Discrimination; Laurel Bossen Conclusion; Damien Kingsbury

O autorze

Damien Kingsbury, Deakin University, Australia Andrew Hewett, Oxfam Australia Chris Roche, Oxfam Australia Simon Fenby, adviser to the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste John McKay, Australian chair of the Society for International Development Rohan Bastin, Deakin University, Australia Mark McPeak, ChildFund Australia Paul Ronalds, Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, Australia Craig Thorburn, Monash University, Australia Sue Kenny, Deakin University, Australia Laurel Bossen, McGill University, Canada Elizabeth Reid AO, Australian National University