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The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico Saint Mary's University, Canada)

The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies By Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico Saint Mary's University, Canada)

The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies by Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico Saint Mary's University, Canada)

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This textbook provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it. It wil be essential reading for students of Global Development, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Gender Studies, Geography, and Anthropology among others.

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The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies by Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico Saint Mary's University, Canada)

  • Collectively documents and analyses economic, political, social and environmental crises and the need to find alternatives to the system that generates them.
  • Each contributor supplements their overview with a guide to the critical development studies literature on the topic thereby providing scholars and students with a precis of the key issues as well as a window into essential further readings.
  • Provides a timely and necessary analysis of the systemic changes that are needed to transform the current world to one where economic and social justice and environmental integrity prevail.

The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies Reviews

'In this updated and expanded edition across over forty chapters, this volume is the go to source for scholars and students of critical development studies. It provides the highest levels of scholarship and knowledge around the history, content and scope of the field with relevance for challenging and posing contemporary policy and activism.'

Ben Fine, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK

'Given the aspirations for social, economic and climate justice, the need for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge that points us toward bold alternatives has never been greater. This Essential Guide offers an invaluable resource in this regard. Its chronicling of the trajectory of development studies will be particularly useful to contemporary scholars to see their ideas in a historical context.'

Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Professor, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada; Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Development Studies

'The second edition of The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies offers a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive and highly accessible guide to the growing field of international development studies from a critical perspective. It is critical in two senses: critical of mainstream development thought, while at the same time scrutinising popular ideas on alternatives. It will be an indispensable guide for academic researchers (students and senior scholars) as well as activists and development policy practitioners.'

Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Professor of Agrarian Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands

'We have not reached the end of history but the story of progress, its errors and criticisms, is the most important one in social science. Here critical development scholars have both charted and navigated an extensive archipelago of ideas to produce this guide. This updated and expanded edition covers many crucial debates and is indispensable.'

Barbara Harriss-White, FAcSS, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK

About Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico Saint Mary's University, Canada)

Henry Veltmeyer is Senior Research Professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, and Professor Emeritus of International Development Studies (IDS) at Saint Mary's University, Canada.

Paul Bowles is Professor of Global Studies and Economics at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.

Table of Contents

Critical Development Studies: An Introduction 1. Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics with Illustrations from Seven Decades Part 1: History as Development 2. Unravelling the Canvas of History Part 2: Thinking Critically about Development 3. Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects 4. Race in/and Development 5. Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot 6. Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development 7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Development Studies Part 3: System Dynamics: Capitalism, Imperialism, Development, and Globalisation 8. Capitalism and Crises 9. Development, Capitalism, Imperialism, Globalisation: A Tale of Four Concepts 10. Globalisation Versus Development: Beyond Dualism 11. Philanthrocapitalism and Development 12. The Migration-Development Nexus in the Neoliberal Era Part 4: Policy Configurations for Development 13. The Post-Washington Consensus 14. International Cooperation for Development 15. The Developmental State, Globalisation, and Structural Transformations 16. Local Economic Development, Microcredit, and Financial Inclusion Part 5: Inside the BRICS 17. Brazil: Development Strategies and Peripheral Conditions 18. India: Critical Issues of a 'Tortuous Transition' 19. Interrogating the China Model of Development 20. South Africa: An Economy of Extremes Part 6: Poverty, Inequalities, and Development Dynamics 21. Development: Class Matters 22. The Dynamics of Poverty Production: A Political Economy Perspective for the SDGs Era 23. Poverty Analysis through a Gender Lens 24. Women, Work, and Gender Inequalities: With Illustrations from Cambodia and China 25. Health Inequalities and Development in a Global Context Part 7: Capitalism, Labour and the State 26. Labour and Development 27. The Triangle of Underdevelopment: Technology, Patents, and Monopoly 28. The Making of the New Chinese Working Class 29. Labour and Development in Latin America 30. Class and State Formation in the Gulf Arab States Part 8: Dynamics of Agrarian Change and Urban Development 31. Contemporary Dynamics of Agrarian Change 32. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions 33. Urban Development in the Global South 34. Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism Part 9: Development, Climate Change, and the Environment 35. Eco-Marxist Lenses for Viewing Human-Nature Relations 36. Climate Change and Development 37. The Energy Transition and the Global South 38. The Political Economy of Extractivism in North Africa Part 10: Resistances and Alternatives 39. Understanding the Rise of the Far Right, and what to do about it 40. Rural Dispossession and Resistance in Asia and Africa 41. Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Latin America 42. Colonialism's Miasmas: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience 43. Workers' Control and Self-Management 44. Communitarian Revolutions: Ecological Economics from Below Conclusion 45. Moving towards Another World: Possibilities and Pitfalls

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The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies by Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico Saint Mary's University, Canada)
Henry Veltmeyer (Universidad de Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico Saint Mary's University, Canada)
Routledge Critical Development Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-09-30
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