Critical Reflections on Development [electronic resource] /
Kingsbury, D.editor.
Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Reconceptualising Development: The Painful Job of Thinking; 2 The g7+ Group of Fragile States: Towards Better International Engagement and Accountability in Aid Delivery to Fragile Nations; 3 After the Washington Consensus: Rethinking Dominant Paradigms and Questioning 'One Size Fits All' Orthodoxies; 4 Development Aid, Civil War and the Containers of Capitalism; 5 The Good Governance-Human Rights Nexus; 6 Reconceptualising International Aid and Development NGOs
7 A Trojan Horse? International Development Agencies Embrace Business Practices and Mental Models8 Seeing the Forest for the Carbon: Interrogating Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD); 9 Reconceptualising Development: The Turn to Civil Society?; 10 A Feminist Reflection on the Declarations of Paris and Dili: Towards Re-Imagining the Aid and Development Endeavour; 11 Reproduction and Property in Rural China: Development and Discrimination; Conclusion; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development.
Economic policy.
Poverty.
Sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Economic development.
Political science.
Development Policy.
Development Aid.
Sociology, general.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Development Studies.
Political Science and International Relations, general.