Development in Crisis

Threats to Human Well-Being in the Global South and Global North
Herausgeber: Blumberg, Rae Lesser; Cohn, Samuel

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Produktbeschreibung

Development in Crisis is a collection of real-world case studies on two crises of development in the Global South and North: the undercutting of state capacity and the disempowerment of women. Edited by two of America's top development sociologists, the volume shows the profound human impact of these twin threats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781138778351
• ISBN-10: 1138778354
• Artikelnr.: 42786441

Autorenporträt

Rae Lesser Blumberg is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Samuel Cohn is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Crisis in Development - How development lives and dies
Samuel Cohn and Rae Blumberg 2. Crisis of International Development and the Case of Haiti: Making of an outer periphery
Robert Fatton
Jr. 3. Why Cutting Taxes Does Not Increase Employment - Or why shrinking the state does not provide compensating economic development
Samuel Cohn 4. State and Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia: Advantage of an ancient civilization
Harold R. Kerbo 5. Does a Post-Scarcity World Mean an End to Development?
Herman Mark Schwartz 6.(Pro)Creating a Crisis? Gender discrimination
sex ratios and their implications for the developing world
Abigail Weitzman 7.Gender
Development and the Environment: Female Empowerment and the Creation of Sustainable Societies
Stephen Scanlan 8. A Walk on the Wild Side of Gender
War and Development in Afghanistan and Northern Uganda
Rae Blumberg 9. Zimbabwe: A case study in bipolar development
Lorna Lueker Zukas 10. Advancing While Losing: Indigenous land claims and development in Argentina
Matthias vom Hau 11.What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About the Global in North American Higher Education
Richard Handler 12. Landmines and Sustainability: Remaking the World Through Global Citizenship
Activism
Research and Collaborative Mine Action
P. Preston Reynolds