Development in Crisis

Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North

Rae Lesser Blumberg, Samuel Cohn

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781138778368
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317677208
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North, is a provocative, engaging and interesting collection of real-world case studies in development and globalization focusing on under-emphasized threats to growth and human welfare worldwide. Created by two of America's top development sociologists, it targets undergraduates, graduates, academics and development professionals. Crises such as falling state capacity, declining technological innovation, increasing class inequality and persisting gender inequality are considered, along with their economic and social consequences.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of tables
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction: crisis in development – how development lives and dies—Samuel Cohn and Rae Lesser Blumberg
• 2 The crisis of international development and the case of Haiti: the making of an outer-periphery—Robert Fatton Jr.
• 3 Why cutting taxes does not increase employment: or why shrinking the state does not provide compensating economic development—Samuel Cohn
• 4 The state and economic development in East and Southeast Asia: the advantage of an ancient civilization—Harold R. Kerbo
• 5 Does a post-scarcity world mean an end to development?—Herman Mark Schwartz
• 6 (Pro)Creating a crisis? Gender discrimination, sex ratios and their implications for the developing world—Abigail Weitzman
• 7 Gender, development and the environment: female empowerment and the creation of sustainable societies—Stephen J. Scanlan
• 8 A walk on the wild side of gender, war and development in Afghanistan and Northern Uganda—Rae Lesser Blumberg
• 9 Zimbabwe: a case study in bipolar development—Lorna Lueker Zukas
• 10 Advancing while losing: indigenous land claims and development in Argentina—Matthias vom Hau
• 11 What we don’t talk about when we talk about the global in North American higher education—Richard Handler
• 12 Landmines and sustainability: remaking the world through global citizenship, activism, research and collaborative mine action—P. Preston Reynolds
• Index