Current issues in development studies
Subtitle: global aspects of agency and structure
By: Frans J. Schuurman (ed.)
Contributors: Schuurman, Frans J. 1948-
Series: Nijmegen studies in development and cultural change -- v. 21
Publisher: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik Breitenbach
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Saarbrücken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Economic development.; Developing countries -- Economic conditions.; Developing countries -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Frans Schuurman; title: Agency, structure and globalization in development studies / Frans Schuurman; title: Indigenous knowledge and popular spirituality: a challenge to developmentalists / Gerrit Huizer; title: Blinded by rainbows: anti-modernist and modernist deconstructions of development / Luuk Knippenberg and Frans Schuurman; title: Can you show me the way to the world-market, please? Reflections on the "global" economy / Detlev Haude; title: Of merchants and ministers: a short history of Dutch foreign aid / Paul Hoebink.; title: Strategies of development projects for women: towards the integration of autonomy / Francien van Driel and Mirjam van Reisen; title: Democratization and the role of NGOs: two cases from India / Lau Schulpen; title: On the crossroads between tradition and modernity: religious and economic development of the Q'eqchi'es of Guatemala / Hans Siebers; title: Resistance, gender and agency: a case in south Sri Lanka / Carla Risseeuw; title: Historical persistence of social conduct: a case-study of land dealing on Koh Samui, Thailand / Jaco Appelman; title: The survival of the fittest? The North-South power struggle in the formation of the convention on biological diversity / Bas Arts.