Main description:
The thoughts and works of one of the leading commentators on the theory and policy of development are contained in this volume. The book looks widely over issues of Eurocentricism, critical globalism, intercultural transaction, delinking and post-development theory and presents ideas for the future of the field. Throughout, the author tries to connect issues of development with the latest thinking in sociology, critical theory and social science generally.
This comprehensive book will be used as a barometer of critical thought in the field today. The writing has come out of many years of teaching and travelling in developing countries and reflects the author's unusual and detailed experience of conditions in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Trends in Development Theory
Dilemmas of Development Discourse
The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method
The Development of Development Theory
Towards Critical Globalism
Delinking or Globalization?
The Cultural Turn in Development
Questions of Power
My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development
After Post-Development
Equity and Growth Revisited
A Supply-Side Approach to Social Development
Critical Holism and the Tao of Development
Futures of Development
The thoughts and works of one of the leading commentators on the theory and policy of development are contained in this volume. The book looks widely over issues of Eurocentricism, critical globalism, intercultural transaction, delinking and post-development theory and presents ideas for the future of the field. Throughout, the author tries to connect issues of development with the latest thinking in sociology, critical theory and social science generally.
This comprehensive book will be used as a barometer of critical thought in the field today. The writing has come out of many years of teaching and travelling in developing countries and reflects the author's unusual and detailed experience of conditions in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Trends in Development Theory
Dilemmas of Development Discourse
The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method
The Development of Development Theory
Towards Critical Globalism
Delinking or Globalization?
The Cultural Turn in Development
Questions of Power
My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development
After Post-Development
Equity and Growth Revisited
A Supply-Side Approach to Social Development
Critical Holism and the Tao of Development
Futures of Development
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, The University of Sussex
This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies
Keith Griffin
Dept of Economics, University of California at Riverside
Andrea Cornwall
Institute of Development Studies, The University of Sussex
This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies
Keith Griffin
Dept of Economics, University of California at Riverside