Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Globalisation and development
Structure of the book
References
1 The idea of development and modernisation
The origins of development
Modernisation theory
Further reading
References
2 Early critiques: dependency, world systems and alternative theories of development
Structuralist economics
Dependency and world systems theory
Neo-Marxist theory and imperialism
The neo-imperial imperative
Socialist development?
Case study: African socialism in Tanzania
Case study: “socialism” and reform in Vietnam
Further reading
References
3 The neoliberal revolution in development: participation, power and poverty
The genesis of neoliberalism
The theory and roll-out of neoliberalism
The roll-out of neoliberalism in the Global South
The international financial institutions
State power and neoliberalism
Further reading
References
4 Impacts of neoliberalism and the revival of modernisation?
Impacts of neoliberalism
Post-neoliberalism and the return of modernisation?
Celebratisation of development: normalising neoliberalism or pragmatic power?
The SDGs – socialising neoliberalism or global partnership for development?
Neoliberalism, gender and development
Further reading
References
5 The role of the state: “developmental states”, geopolitics, industrialisation and security
States
States and development
Rethinking the state’s role in development: “overdeveloped” and “neoliberal” views
State failure, violence and underdevelopment
Developmental and catalytic states
Globalisation: the rise or retreat of the state in development?
Geopolitics and developmental states
What makes a state developmental?
Developmental states in Africa?
The development policy challenge of industrialisation
Industrial systems as assemblage and the role of the state
Further reading
References
6 Deconstructing development: post-modernism and decoloniality
(Post)modernity
Post-development
Post-post-development?
Living post-development? Zapatismo and buen vivir
Post-colonialism and decoloniality
Further reading
References
7 Aid, development and South–South cooperation?
Dead aid?
Aid conditionality and common pooling
Randomised controlled trials
Microfinance
South–South cooperation
BRICS “cooperation” and developmental states in Africa?
Nature of the BRICS
Scale and drivers of BRICS engagement
Impacts of BRICS engagement
Building BRICS in Africa?
The future of Africa and the BRICS
Further reading
References
8 ICT4D: Information technology for development?
ICT4D
ICT connection = development?
Impacts of mobile phones on livelihoods: a digital provide?
Development and e-business
Case study: labour conditions in global factories
Mobile application (app) development
E-waste and Internet scamming
Gender and e-business
The virtual economy
The rise of the ‘sharing economy’: virtual capital
Transformative technologies?
Further reading
References
9 “The resource curse”: land, wealth and politics
Economic channels of the resource curse
Socio-political channels
(Geo)political channels
Matrix governance, ideology and the resource curse
Materiality, lootability and “resource conflicts”
Transcending the resource curse?
Further reading
References
10 Urbanisation and development: generative cities or slumification?
What is a city? The urban and development
Planetary urbanisation
Neoliberalism and globalisation of cities in the Global South
“Planning” and prefix urbanism in the Global South: smart, eco and other varieties
The new urban agenda and generative urbanism?
Further reading
References
11 Rural development and climate: crisis and transcendence?
The climate crisis
Reducing of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation or carbon colonialism?
Water scarcity
Feeding and farming for the future sustainably?
A green revolution?
Other approaches to raising small-farmer income: fair trade and land titling
Further reading
References
12 Getting to or after development?
Financing international development and the reconfiguration of global geopolitics
A post-Western world after development?
Prospects for industrial development: escaping the matrix?
The future or end of development?
References
Index