The Companion to Development Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367244231 / Twarda / 2024 / 626 str.

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This book is essential reading in the field of development studies. This indispensable resource offers succinct, up-to-date, and insightful chapters that reflect the diverse voices and perspectives informing the field and the dynamic interplay of theory, policy, and practice that characterizes it.

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One: Theories and their Contentions

1)    Theories, strategies and ideologies of development: an overview

Robert B. Potter

2)    The impasse in development studies

Frans J. Schuurman

3)    Dependency Theories: from ECLA to André Gunder Frank and Beyond

Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen

4)    The New World Group of Dependency Scholars: Reflections of a Caribbean Avant-Garde  Movement

Don D Marshall

5)    World-systems theory: core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral regions

Thomas Klak

6)    Neoliberalism: Different paths within a global project  

Elizabeth Humphrys

7)    Development as Freedom

Patricia Northover

8)    Postcolonialism

Cheryl McEwan

9)    Postmodernism and development

David Simon

10) Post-Development

James D Sidaway

11) Clarifying confusion between development as ‘change’ and ‘intention’

David Lewis

12) Culture and Development

Susanne Schech         

13) Development Ethics

Des Gasper

 

Two: Histories and discourses of development

14) Development in a global-historical context

Ruth Craggs

15) Heritage and Development

Charlotte Cross and John D. Giblin

16) The Changing Language of International Development

Daniel Hammet

17) Representing Poverty

John Cameron

18) Global North and Global South

Kamna Patel

19) The shift to global development

Rory Horner

20) Enlightenment and the era of modernity

Marcus Power

21) The Washington Consensus and the Post-Washington Consensus

Ali Burak Güven

22) Concepts and Measures of Development: Beyond GDP

Jakob Dirksen

23) Global economic inequality, the great divergence, and the legacies of colonialism and enslavement

Alan Shipman, Julia Chukwuma, and Emil Dauncey

24) Conflict Politics as Developmentalism

Raktim Ray

 

Three: Actors and Institutions

25) Development and Nationalism

David Neilsen

26) China-Africa relations in a changing world

Frangton Chiyemura

27) Civil society and civic space

Peck

28) Role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

Vandana Desai

29) Philanthropy, private foundations and global development

Adam Fejerskov

30) For-profit consultants and contractors in development

Emma Mawdsley

31) Corporate Social Responsibility: Development on Whose Terms?

Maha Rafi Atal

32) Gender, Ethical Consumerism and political participation

Celia Bartlett

33) Environmental Defenders and Social Movements: The Violent Realities of Resisting Extractivism

Levi Gahman, Filiberto Penados and Shelda-Jane Smith

34) Religion

Jones

35) Social Capital and Development

Anthony Bebbington and Katherine Foo

36) Is there a legal right to development?

Radha D’Souza

 

Four: Identities and Practices

37) Children and development

Kristen E. Cheney

38) Youth: Perspectives and Paradigms in Global Development

Emil Dauncey

39) Ageing and poverty

Vandana Desai

40) Disability

Ruth Evans and Yaw Adjei-Amoako

41) Sexualities and Development

Andrea Cornwall and Vanja Hamzić

42) Rethinking Gender and Empowerment

Jane Parpart

43) Critique of feminism from the South

Madhu Purnima Kishwar

44) Identities and Intersectionality

Sara de Jong

45) A K-shaped crisis: Covid-19 and inequalities

Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira and Magali N. Alloatti

 

Five: People and the Planet

46) Sustainable development

Michael Redclift

47) The Sustainable Development Goals

Johnathan Rigg

48) Transformations to sustainability

Lakshmi Charli-Joseph & Jesús Mario Siqueiros-García

49) The 4D framework: a holistic approach to countering climate change misinformation

John Cook

50) Decolonising human-nature relationships: Indigenous ontologies and development

Thomas Aneurin Smith

51) Water Insecurity

Catherine Fallon Grasham

52) The Blue Economy

Kate Symons

53) Fisheries and Development

Carole White

54) Famine

Stephen Devereux

55) Renewable Energy and Development

Andrew Lawrence

56) Climate adaptation

Rónán McDermott, Karsten Schulz, Lummina Horlings, Lorenzo Squintani

57) Global Environmental Justice

Adrian Martin

 

Six: The Economics of development

58) Growth and Development

Augustin Kwasi Fosu

59) Aid and growth

Ines A. Ferreira

60) Foreign Aid in a Changing World

Stephen Brown

61) Aid conditionality

Jonathan R. W. Temple

62) Trade Liberalisation and Economic Development in the Developing Countries

Kalim Siddiqui

63) The Knowledge Based Economy and Digital Divisions of Labour

Mark Graham, Sanna Ojanperä, Martin Dittus

64) New Institutional Economics and Development

Philipp Lepenies

65) Development and consumption

Cecile Jackson

66) Rethinking ‘work’ from the cities of the South

William Monteith

67) Rural Livelihoods in a Context of the Global Land Rush

Annelies Zoomers and Kei Otsuki

68) Migration and Transnationalism

Katie Willis

69) The measurement of poverty

Francesco Burchi and Howard White

70) Behavioural economics and development economics

Bereket Kebede

71) Financialisation and Development

Ben Fine

 

Seven: Conflict, violence and peace

72) Fragile States

Tom Goodfellow

73) Resource Wars

Emma Gilberthorpe and Elissaios Papyrakis

74) Gender and conflict

Erika Forsberg

75) Violence Against Women and Girls

Cathy McIlwaine

76) Global human exploitation: Trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery

Louise Waite

77) Cities, crime and development

Paula Meth

78) Policing and development 

Charlotte Cross

79) Peace-building partnerships and human security

Timothy M. Shaw and Abigail Kabandula

 

Eight: The changing landscape of development

80) Urban Bias

Gareth A. Jones and Stuart Corbridge

81) Studies in comparative urbanism

Colin McFarlane

82) Understanding Land as Fictitious Capital in Financial Capitalism

Sarah E. Sharma and Susanne Soederberg

83) Land grabs

Pádraig Carmody and Adwoa Ofori

84) Gentrification

Ernesto López-Morales

85) Slums and Modernity

Haider

86) Urban Health: Sustainable Development and the Healthy City

Jennifer Cole

87) Infrastructures for Development

Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis

 

Nine: Approaches to policy and practice

88) How to manage for effective aid? The recent emergence of three management approaches

Brendan S Whitty

89) Participatory Development

Giles Mohan

90) Cash Transfers and HIV Prevention in Africa

Kevin Deane

91) Social Protection in Development Context

Sarah Cook and Katja Hujo

92) Universal Basic Income

E. Fouksman

93) Making Social Work Visible in Social Development in Nigeria: challenges and interconnections

Uzoma Okoye and Susan Levy

94) Technological Innovation and Development

Theo Papaioannou

95) Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)

Azadeh Akbari

96) Decolonising global health

Julia Ngozi Chukwuma

97) Navigating the institutional gaps, mismatch, and neglect: Exploring the landscape of non-communicable diseases in the developing countries

Pallavi Joshi and Dinar Kale

98) What is Vocational Education and Training for What Development?
Simon McGrath

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Emil Dauncey is a Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Studies at The Open University, UK.

Vandana Desai is in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Robert B. Potter (1950–2014), was a leading researcher in urban and development geographies, with particular reference to Caribbean development studies, and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was Professor Emeritus at Reading University, Head of School (2008–2012) and the recipient of the higher doctorate degree of DSc from the University of Reading for his outstanding contributions to the field.