Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World
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Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World

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Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World

About this book

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.

Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World covers the major theories of development, such as modernisation and dependency, in addition to anti-development theories such as post-modernism and decoloniality. It examines the changing nature of immanent (structural) conditions of development in addition to the main attempts to steer them (imminent development). The book suggests that the era of development as a hegemonic idea and practice may be coming to an end, at the same time as it appears to have achieved its apogee in the Sustainable Development Goals as a result of the rise of ultra-nationalism around the world, the increasing importance of securitisation and the existential threat posed by climate change. Whether development can or should survive as a concept is interrogated in the book.

This book offers a fresh and updated take on the past 60 years of development and is essential reading for advanced undergraduate students in areas of development, geography, international studies, political science, economics and sociology.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781138551787
eBook ISBN
9781351375511
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geography
Index
Geography

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 The idea of development and modernisation
  11. 2 Early critiques: dependency, world systems and alternative theories of development
  12. 3 The neoliberal revolution in development: participation, power and poverty
  13. 4 Impacts of neoliberalism and the revival of modernisation?
  14. 5 The role of the state: “developmental states”, geopolitics, industrialisation and security
  15. 6 Deconstructing development: post-modernism and decoloniality
  16. 7 Aid, development and South–South cooperation?
  17. 8 ICT4D: Information technology for development?
  18. 9 “The resource curse”: land, wealth and politics
  19. 10 Urbanisation and development: generative cities or slumification?
  20. 11 Rural development and climate: crisis and transcendence?
  21. 12 Getting to or after development?
  22. Index