Development Theory
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society; Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781849204491
Description: This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses' - Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of SussexPraise for the previous edition:'This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies' - Keith Griffin, University of California, RiversideThis is the se.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; 1Trends in Development Theory; 2 Dilemmas of Development Discourse: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method; 3 The Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical Globalism; 4 Delinking or Globalization?; 5 The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power; 6 My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development; 7 After Post-development; 8 Equity and Growth Revisited: From Human Development to Social Development.; title: 9 Critical Holism and the Tao of Development10 Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D; 11 Futures of Development; 12 Twenty-first-century Globalization and Development; References; Index.