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The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies
About this book
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.
Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes:
- 18 new chapters, including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health
- Expanded global coverage, including new chapters on South Africa, North Africa, and the Gulf Arab states
- A new section on resistance and alternatives
- Additional pedagogical features, including a glossary of key terms, discussion questions, and expanded guides for further reading
This textbook will be essential reading for students of global development, political science, sociology, economics, gender studies, geography, history, anthropology, agrarian studies, international political economy, and area studies. It will also be an important resource for development researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Critical development studies: An introduction
- Part I History as development
- Part II Thinking critically about development
- Part III System dynamics: Capitalism, imperialism, development, and globalisation
- Part IV Policy configurations for development
- Part V Inside the BRICS
- Part VI Poverty, inequalities, and development dynamics
- Part VII Capital, labour and the state
- Part VIII Dynamics of agrarian change and urban development
- Part IX Development, climate change, and the environment
- Part X Resistances and alternatives
- Conclusion
- Glossary of terms
- Index