Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World

ISBN-13: 9781138551787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Padraig Carmody

Opis

Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of how the field has evolved and the concrete impacts of this on the ground on the lives of people in the Global South.

Spis treści

Introduction  Chapter 1 The Idea of Development and Modernisation  Chapter 2 Early Critiques: Dependency, World Systems and Alternative Theories of Development  Chapter 3 The Neoliberal Revolution in Development: Participation, Power and Poverty  Chapter 4 Impacts of Neoliberalism and the Revival of Modernisation?  Chapter 5 The Role of the State: "Developmental States", Geopolitics, Industrialisation and Security  Chapter 6 Deconstructing Development: Post-modernism and Decoloniality  Chapter 7 Aid, Development and South–South Cooperation?  Chapter 8 ICT4D: Information Technology for Development?  Chapter 9 "The Resource Curse": Land, Wealth and Politics  Chapter 10 Urbanisation and Development: Generative Cities or Slumification?  Chapter 11 Rural Development and Climate: Crisis and Transcendence?  Chapter 12 Getting to or After Development?

O autorze

Pádraig Carmody is Associate Professor in Geography, Head of Department, Fellow and director of the Masters in Development Practice at Trinity College Dublin and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His research centres on the political economy of globalisation and economic restructuring in Southern and Eastern Africa. He has published in a variety of journals, such as Economic Geography, World Development and Political Geography, amongst others. He has published seven books. The second edition of his New Scramble for Africa has recently been published. He sits of the boards of the Journal of the Tanzanian Geographical Society, African Geographical Review, Political Geography and Geoforum, where he was previously editor-in-chief. He is currently an associate editor of the journal Transnational Corporations, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.