Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions

✍ Scribed by Jan Nederveen Pieterse

• Publisher: SAGE
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.  Read more... 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

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Preface to the second edition......Page 14
Introduction......Page 17
1Trends in Development Theory......Page 20
2 Dilemmas of Development Discourse: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method......Page 38
3 The Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical Globalism......Page 55
4 Delinking or Globalization?......Page 73
5 The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power......Page 83
6 My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development......Page 102
7 After Post-development......Page 129
8 Equity and Growth Revisited: From Human Development to Social Development......Page 144
9 Critical Holism and the Tao of Development......Page 163
10 Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D......Page 185
11 Futures of Development......Page 201
12 Twenty-first-century Globalization and Development......Page 222
References......Page 240
Index......Page 265