Development studies Books

Book SynopsisThe world's arid and semiarid lands are plagued by serious environmental problems and are deteriorating in their ability to sustain conventional crops. The authors discuss the plight of deteriorating arid lands and, more importantly, offer practical solutions for improved land and water usage and the use of alternative new crops for food, chemicals, and energy production.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph argues that, contrary to stated claims, Japanese foreign aid is inextricably linked to Japanese business interests. It demonstrates how Japanese aid to the developing world is often tied to purchases from Japan, with potentially devastating consequences to Third World nations.

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Book SynopsisRare interviews with contemporary slaveholders reveal how they justify their actions and resist challenges to their authority.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone-raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the Slaves The exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford University Choi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy-and human rights campaigners-a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets 2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets 3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery 4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation 5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats 6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India 7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement 8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and Reappraisal Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India. Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic thought processes that blind them.Trade ReviewA much-needed and unique work. Our understanding of modern slavery holds virtually nothing on slaveholders. Such a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail, truly critical knowledge if we are to move forward, but always outside our ability to grasp. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick also goes somewhere that few scholars in this area have gone—raising important, challenging questions about how slaveholders might be understood and rehabilitated. -- Kevin Bales, cofounder of Free the SlavesThe exponential growth of social movement studies has yielded a rich and varied portrait of movements and movement groups. By contrast, we know little about movement targets. In this important book, Choi-Fitzpatrick not only reverses this emphasis, but offers the beginnings of a theory of how targets respond to movement pressure. And what is the data on which his theory is based? Nothing less than in-depth interviews with slaveholders targeted by contemporary anti-slavery groups. It would be hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution to the field than What Slaveholders Think. -- Doug McAdam, Stanford UniversityChoi-Fitzpatrick reinvigorates the theory and practice of representing slavery and related systems of domination, in particular our understandings of the binaries between slavery and freedom, victims and perpetrators. Incisive and stimulating, this is a stellar work of scholarship that demands of the academy—and human rights campaigners—a marked shift in direction. -- Zoe Trodd, University of NottinghamThe book offers a detailed account and analysis of how and to what extent perpetrators adapt, accommodate, and profit from this social phenomenon. Moreover, What Slaveholders Think makes a great contribution to the literature on social movements, human rights, political sociology, labor movements, and other fields of study. * American Journal of Sociology *Provides readers with many truly unique and largely overlooked insights into the world of contemporary slavery. . . . Path-breaking. * International Sociology *A rich treatment of a compelling (albeit troubling) topic, one that makes an important contribution to social movement theory. * Mobilization *A rich, theoretically interesting work that should be taken seriously by scholars of social movement activity. . . . Well-written, engaging, and theoretically insightful. * Contemporary Sociology *Choi-Fitzpatrick’s work is an essential contribution to the literature on slavery and bonded labor. * Journal of Human Trafficking *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. In All Its Forms: Slavery and Abolition, Movements and Targets2. Best-Laid Plans: A Partial Theory of Social-Movement Targets3. Just Like Family: Slaveholders on Slavery4. As If We Are Equal: Slaveholders on Emancipation5. The Farmer in the Middle: Target Response to Threats6. Private Wrongs: Slavery and Antislavery in Contemporary India7. Long Goodbye: The Contemporary Antislavery Movement8. Between Good and Evil: The Everyday Ethics of Resources and ReappraisalNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Remnants of Race Science traces the influence of ideas from the Global South on UNESCO’s race campaign, illuminating its relationship to notions of modernization and economic development.Trade ReviewBrilliantly and provocatively, The Remnants of Race Science reveals that the so-called decline of racial thought in human biology was really just a substitution of other more flexible ideas of human difference—mostly from the Global South—for the rigid racist typologies of the Global North. This more inclusive refiguring of racial difference would make possible the economic ‘development’ of people once excluded from modernity—which meant in practice their neocolonial incorporation into the netherworlds of global capitalism. In this paradigm-shifting book, Gil-Riaño thus offers us a new ‘southern’ vocabulary to talk about racism and antiracism. -- Warwick Anderson, author of Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the PhilippinesStarting with scientific research from the Southern Hemisphere, this important book overturns the common story of antiracist science as simplistically rooted in rejecting fixed biological kinds. Drawing from a transnational archive, Gil-Riaño shows how so-called anti-racist science was caught up in projects of improvement that rested on a multitude of other racisms. -- M. Murphy, author of The Economization of LifeLatin Americanists have long maintained that race and biology are shaped by culture, social organization, and economic conditions. In this deeply researched study, Gil-Riaño shows how Latin American racial ideas shaped the post–World War II human sciences and UNESCO projects. The human sciences did not renounce racial explanation—as so many believe—but folded them into global ideas about economic development. -- Karin Rosemblatt, author of The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950Offers useful historical context to current debates about how to successfully build solidarity in science and society. * Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Remnants of Race SciencePart I: Confronting Racism in the Southern Hemisphere, 1890–19511. Substituting Race: Arthur Ramos, Bahia, and the “Nina Rodrigues School”2. Relocating Race Science After World War II: Situating the 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race in the Southern Hemisphere3. Vikings of the Sunrise: Alfred Metraux, Te Rangi Hīroa, and Polynesian Racial ResiliencePart II: Race in the Tropics and Highlands and the Quest for Economic Development, 1945–19624. A Tropical Laboratory: Race, Evolution, and the Demise of UNESCO’s Hylean Amazon Project5. “Peasants Without Land”: Race and Indigeneity in the ILO’s Puno-Tambopata ProjectPart III: Engineering Racial Harmony and Decolonization, 1952–19616. A Brazilian Racial Dilemma: Modernization and UNESCO’s Race Relations Studies in Brazil7. A White World Perspective and the Collapse of Global Race Relations InquiryConclusion: “Racism Continues to Haunt the World”NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book calls for a new global approach to education to enrich and enhance the lives of children everywhere. Contributors emphasize the centrality of education to social and environmental justice, as well as the philosophical foundations of education. The book features a foreword by Pope Francis.Trade ReviewIn an age of ever mounting challenges, it is essential to reimagine and transform our approach to education to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviors necessary for sustainable development. The Global Compact for Education calls on all of us to prioritize inclusive and transformative education for a sustainable tomorrow. -- Ban Ki-moon, eighth secretary-general of the United Nations and cochair of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global CitizensImagine: education for all would employ the languages of the head, heart, and hands. It would give us purpose in life. It would infuse us with the motivation to pursue truth, goodness and creativity, while working to mend the fabric of human relationships. This book makes me want to make that vision reality. -- Yo-Yo MaPope Francis’s urgent call for a new compact on education is timely and should serve as a wake-up call. While many heads of state play their power games, hundreds of millions of children suffer and miss what they so obviously need: a solid education. This authoritative book sketches out what should be done and shows how. Clear-eyed about contemporary crises of pandemic, climate change, and heartbreaking migration, the authors offer an impressive range of educational insight and reform. -- Jerry Brown, former governor of CaliforniaThis volume brings together some of the very best minds from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, as they respond to Pope Francis' visionary “summons to solidarity” for a new global compact on education. The chapters, carefully crafted and curated for the volume, address the need for education practices and policies to promote healthy, flourishing and engaged children. The authors coalesce in defining critical issues in education today: early childhood education as a foundation for learning, education and social inequality, the needs of children from more vulnerable populations, education as a moral responsibility, and much more. This is a book for our times, as we strive to educate children across the world for purposeful lives. -- Kathleen McCartney, president of Smith CollegeIn this timely, engaging, and compelling book, the authors describe how education can be reformed so that students in nations around the world can attain the knowledge, skills, and values needed to function effectively in a highly technological, diverse, complex, and changing world. Once again, editors Marcelo and Carola Suárez-Orozco have assembled a group of eminent scholars who enrich this book with original and trenchant insights. This innovative and informative book deserves a wide and influential audience. -- James A. Banks, Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus, University of Washington, SeattleHow can education address the social, moral and environmental crises of our time? This important and unique volume combines rigorous cutting-edge research and a strong ethical foundation to address issues in education across the globe. Foregrounding the well-being and flourishing of children, the scholars assembled here provide cogent accounts of inequalities and injustices, as well as hopeful calls to action to improve and provide access to quality education for all. This volume deserves a wide readership across academia and among policy makers. It is both a clear eyes assessment of the present state of education, and a clarion call to work towards a better future. -- Mary C. Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and John Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Education: The Global Compact, by the Holy Father Pope FrancisAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Compact on Education, by Marcelo Suárez-OrozcoPart I. Addressing Our Most Vulnerable1. Education and Inequality, by Jeffrey D. Sachs2. Education, Health, and Demography, by David E. Bloom and Maddalena Ferranna,3. Child Poverty and Cognition: Developmental and Educational Implications, by Sebastián Lipina4. Education for Refugee and Displaced Children, by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Dana Burde and J. Lawrence Aber5. The Consequences of Emergency and Humanitarian Relief Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey and Lebanon, by Maha Shuayb, Maurice Crul and Frans Lelie6. Countering Cascading Xenophobia: Educational Settings at the Frontline, by Carola Suárez-OrozcoPart II. Ethical and Civic Considerations7. Education as a Moral Responsibility, by Stefano Zamagni8. On Educating the Three Virtues: A Hegelian Approach, by Howard Gardner9. Ethics in Education and Education of Ethics, by Vittorio Hosle10. Education for a Purposeful Life, by William Damon and Anne Colby11. Educating for Democracy in Contentious Times, by John RogersPart III. Educating for a Sustainable Future12. Climate Change Education for All: Bending the Curve Education Project, by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Fonna Forman, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Alan Roper, Scott Friese, Karen Flammer,, Hahrie Han, Adam Millard-Ball, Paula Ezcurra, and Astrid Hsu13. Education for Sustainable Development, by Radhika Iyengar, Haein Shin, and Tara Stafford OcanseyPart IV. The Foundations of Education14. Early Childhood Education in Reggio Emilia and the World, by Carla Rinaldi15. Addressing our Global Developmental Emergency: Early Intervention and the Think Equal Early Years Program, by Leslee Udwin16. The Future of Literacy in a Digital Culture: Promise and Perils, by Maryanne Wolf17. The Feeling of Reading in a Changing World: From Neurons to Narratives, by Tami KatzirPart V. The Futures of Education18. Global Learning Ecologies: Leveraging Technologies for Equity, by Brigid Barron19. Improvement Science: The Social Glue that Helps Helpers Help?, by Louis M. Gomez, Manuelito Biag, and David G. Imig20. UNESCO and the Futures of Education, by Stefania GianniniAfterword: Universal Education: An Essential Pillar for All Sustainable Development Goals, by Jennifer Gross, Peter Stengaard, and Vanessa Fajans-TurnerList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought. * Social Text *Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean. * Small Axe.net *Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. -- Paget Henry * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsPreface1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony3. Caribbean Racial States4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a thought-provoking and enlightening, if in places frustrating, collection of interdisciplinary essays that will be of benefit to social scientists interested in consumer lifeworlds under communist rule. -- Gediminas Lankauskas, University of Regina * The Russian Review *The volume is a useful study of Eastern European consumption during socialism and an invaluable tool with which to think about writing the histories of consumerism and state socialism in general. The provocative conclusions regarding socialism's failures as reverse echoes of our world today, with its own tortured relation to consumption, should, one hopes, resonate beyond the confines of the fields of Eastern European and socialist history. -- Victor Petrov - University of Tennessee * H-Net (Socialisms) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Pleasures of Backwardness / Zsuzsa Gille, Cristofer Scarboro, and Diana Mincytė2. Consuming Dialogues: Pleasure, Restraint, "Backwardness," and "Civilization" in Eastern Europe / Mary Neuburger3. Just Rewards: The Social Contract and Communism's Hard Bargain with the Citizen-Consumer / Patrick Hyder Patterson4. Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People's Republic / Brian Porter-Szűcs 5. Oranges and the New Black: Importing, Provisioning, and Consuming Tropical Fruits and Coffee in the GDR, 1971–1989 / Anne Dietrich6. VCRs, Modernity, and Consumer Culture in Late State Socialist Poland / Patryk Wasiak7. The Enchantment of Imaginary Europe: Consumer Practices in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Tania Bulakh8. The Late Socialist Good Life and its Discontents: Bit, Kultura, and the Social Life of Goods / Cristofer Scarboro9. The Prosumerist Resonance Machine: Rethinking Political Subjectivity and Consumer Desire in State Socialism / Zsuzsa Gille and Diana MincytėIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a vibrant follow-up on the Comaroffs' Ethnicity, Inc. (2009), further unfolding the full riches of the idea of a growing 'incorporation' of ethnicity. It highlights that in the meantime ethnicity's commoditization and the branding of belonging have developed to new heights, but with startlingly variable results. Through a comparison of different trajectories—from the counter-productive celebration of dot-painting by Australian Aborigines, to Samburu beach-boys in Kenya violently defending their status as sexual icons, to ethnicity-as-(apparent)-abundance among Peruvian peasants—this collection manages to chart the uncertainties of identity and the increasingly enigmatic role of culture in a neoliberal world."—Peter Geschiere, author of The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europ"Just over a decade after the publication of Ethnicity, Inc., the heady cocktail of commoditization, culture, and corporation originally modelled there has only further entangled itself in global social processes. This stunning new collection traces myriad extensions and analogs of ethnocommodities within contemporary late capitalism, while courageously exploring the limits of the model in places where the economic logic of ethnic distinction is muddled by pan-regional identities, nation-branding, and economies of violence. As these authors deftly demonstrate, even as the Durkheimian enchantment of the collective can conjure quantifiable brand value, the capacity of the brand itself to enchant is increasingly the dominant mode with which to produce—and consume—collectivity."—Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenshio in Côte d'IvoireTable of ContentsEditorial NoteIntroduction: Ethnicity, Inc., Revisited / George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff, and John L. Comaroff1. On Branding, Belonging, and the Violence of a Phallic Imaginary: The Maasai Warrior in Kenya Tourism. / George Paul Meiu2. The Scarce and the Sacred: Managing Afterlives and Branding the Derivative in Post-Soviet Buddhism (Inc). / Tatiana Chudakova3. Ethnicity as Potential: Abundance, Competition, and the Limits of Development in Andean Peru's Colca Valley. / Eric Hirsch4. Warriors Incorporated: The Militarization of Fijian Identity in the Era of Neoliberal Warfare. / Simon May5. Story, Brand, or Share? Bafokeng, Inc. and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. / Susan E. Cook6. The Hunter Hype: Producing 'Local Culture' as Particularity in Mali. / Dorothea E. Schulz7. The Affective Potentialities and Politics of Ethnicity, Inc. in Restructuring Nepal: Social Science, Sovereignty, and Signification. / Sara Shneiderman8. Cultural Commodification in Global Contexts: Australian Indigeneity, Inequality, and Militarization in the Twenty-first Century. / Eve Darian-SmithList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a vibrant follow-up on the Comaroffs' Ethnicity, Inc. (2009), further unfolding the full riches of the idea of a growing 'incorporation' of ethnicity. It highlights that in the meantime ethnicity's commoditization and the branding of belonging have developed to new heights, but with startlingly variable results. Through a comparison of different trajectories—from the counter-productive celebration of dot-painting by Australian Aborigines, to Samburu beach-boys in Kenya violently defending their status as sexual icons, to ethnicity-as-(apparent)-abundance among Peruvian peasants—this collection manages to chart the uncertainties of identity and the increasingly enigmatic role of culture in a neoliberal world."—Peter Geschiere, author of The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europ"Just over a decade after the publication of Ethnicity, Inc., the heady cocktail of commoditization, culture, and corporation originally modelled there has only further entangled itself in global social processes. This stunning new collection traces myriad extensions and analogs of ethnocommodities within contemporary late capitalism, while courageously exploring the limits of the model in places where the economic logic of ethnic distinction is muddled by pan-regional identities, nation-branding, and economies of violence. As these authors deftly demonstrate, even as the Durkheimian enchantment of the collective can conjure quantifiable brand value, the capacity of the brand itself to enchant is increasingly the dominant mode with which to produce—and consume—collectivity."—Sasha Newell, author of The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption, and Citizenshio in Côte d'IvoireTable of ContentsEditorial NoteIntroduction: Ethnicity, Inc., Revisited / George Paul Meiu, Jean Comaroff, and John L. Comaroff1. On Branding, Belonging, and the Violence of a Phallic Imaginary: The Maasai Warrior in Kenya Tourism. / George Paul Meiu2. The Scarce and the Sacred: Managing Afterlives and Branding the Derivative in Post-Soviet Buddhism (Inc). / Tatiana Chudakova3. Ethnicity as Potential: Abundance, Competition, and the Limits of Development in Andean Peru's Colca Valley. / Eric Hirsch4. Warriors Incorporated: The Militarization of Fijian Identity in the Era of Neoliberal Warfare. / Simon May5. Story, Brand, or Share? Bafokeng, Inc. and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. / Susan E. Cook6. The Hunter Hype: Producing 'Local Culture' as Particularity in Mali. / Dorothea E. Schulz7. The Affective Potentialities and Politics of Ethnicity, Inc. in Restructuring Nepal: Social Science, Sovereignty, and Signification. / Sara Shneiderman8. Cultural Commodification in Global Contexts: Australian Indigeneity, Inequality, and Militarization in the Twenty-first Century. / Eve Darian-SmithList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBeyond Coloniality is, unsurprisingly, a superbly well-informed and complex book. Forthright in tone and urgent in message, it is also remarkably engaging, and Kamugisha does his scholarly job of identifying important lacunae and unpaid debts in the existing literature on Caribbean thought. * Social Text *Aaron Kamugisha's Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, represents the radical dimension of the black nationalist tradition. * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Most absorbing is the book's critical assessment of how certain theories and metanarratives are inadequate to address the current realities of political-cultural discord in the contemporary Caribbean. * Small Axe.net *Kamugisha moves with great skill between the more specific discourses of the state, the middle class, tradition and modernity, and his close readings of members of the Caribbean intellectual tradition. -- Paget Henry * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsPreface1. Beyond Caribbean Coloniality2. The Contemporary as Absurdity: Denials of Citizenship in the Caribbean Postcolony3. Caribbean Racial States4. A Jamesian Poiesis? C.L.R. James's New Society and Caribbean Freedom5. The Caribbean Beyond: Reading Sylvia Wynter on Freedom and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in urban India. Incorporates epidemiological goals within anthropological frameworks to investigate the ways in which people come into contact with animals and create favorable conditions for the rabies virus to flourish.Trade Review“In this fascinating, accessible, and well-written text, Nadal considers various conceptualizations of rabies in India and the multidimensional challenges involved in controlling viral transmission within a One Health framework.”—D. A. Brass Choice“This is one of the best ethnographies on human-nonhuman relationships I have read.”—Sushrut Jadhav,founding editor of Anthropology & Medicine“A truly original book and a fascinating read.”—Harlan Weaver Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Viral Connections1. Humans2. Food in the Middle3. Dogs4. Macaques5. Cows6. Living with RabiesConclusion: Interspecies CamaraderieReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental Management: Issues and Solutions has grown from a series of seminars on environmental management organized by the UNEP Environmental Education and Training Unit with input from some 25 governments of developing countries. This volume is a compilation of presentations made at these seminars by over 50 specialist authors from all over the world, and by participants who are executives and key cadres in ministries or organizations from a wide range of developing countries concerned with the environment. Looking at the foundations and policies of sustainable development, the book describes the principles and processes of ecosystems and the basic environmental management tools, including funding possibilities, that are required for environmental management, particularly in developing countries. Thus, covering the basic concepts and principles, together with the tools necessary for such management, a wide range of issues of environmental concern are discussed, with an eye on howTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: SOME FOUNDATIONS OF AND POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. Human Ecology and Environment Ethics (L. Dangana & S.Tropp). Environmental Awareness, Education and Training (M. Atchia, etal.). ECOSYSTEMS: PROCESSES, PROBLEMS AND STRATEGIES. Efforts to Combat Land Degradation (T. Maukonen). Genetic Resources (H. Zedan). CASE STUDIES ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. A Brief Overview of Forests (R. Olembo). The Built-Up Ecosystems (N. Gebremedhin). The Global Environmental Monitoring Systems (GEMS) (M.Gwynne). The Role of Law in Environmental Management at the National Level(I. Rummel-Bulska). The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) (M. Pyhala). Toxic Chemical: The UNEP International Register (J.Huismans). Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis superb, concise dictionary comprises over 2,000 entries defining terms and concepts relating to environmental planning, management, conservation and sustainable development.Table of ContentsIntroduction Key Terms and Concepts: A User's Guide A-Z Dictionary Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEven in the late 20th Century, there remains a complex web of spatial inter-relationships linking port cities and coastal zones. Cityports, Coastal Zones and Regional Change brings together seventeen authors to explore aspects of these inter-relationships.Table of ContentsPartial table of contents: Ports, Cities and Coastal Zones: Competition and Change in aMultimodal Environment (B. Hoyle). THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE UK. Cityport Development and Regional Change: Lessons from the Clyde(A. Dawson). ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES. Oil Industry Restructuring and Its Environmental Consequences inthe Coastal Zone (S. Harcombe & D. Pinder). ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN DEVELOPING AREAS. Balkan Transport and Cityport Development in an Era of Uncertainty(D. Hall). Cityports and Coastal Zones in Contemporary Africa: Mombasa and theIndian Ocean Facade of Kenya (B. Hoyle). INTERMODALISM, MIDAs AND MULTIMODALISM. Fixed Links and Short Sea Crossings (R. Knowles). Combined Transport in Italy: The Case of the Quadrante Europa,Verona (C. Robiglio). PLANNING STRATEGIES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. Cityports, Coastal Zones and Sustainable Development (A.Vallega). Index.

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Book SynopsisMost of the developing countries are located near the tropics which determine the success or failure of sustainable development strategies in these regions. This environmental study focuses on the developing world, integrating physical/biological discussion with social/development analysis.Trade Review"The overall impression is of a stimulating text" (Progress in Physical Geography, Vol.25 No 3, 2001)Table of ContentsBASIC TOOLS AND CONCEPTS. Introduction to the Physical Environment. World Population: Distribution and Trends. Economics of Environment: Concepts and Tools. MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT. Natural Vegetation as a Resource Land Use and Environmental Impact. Development of Water Resources. Energy and Development. Changing Air Quality. Urban Development and Environmental Modification. The Coastal Waters. Techniques for Environmental Evaluation. THE GLOBAL ISSUES. The History of Current Environmental Awareness. Current Global Events and Projected Effects. Environmental Arrangements: Present and Future. Global Governance for Environment. The Main Issues. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisSewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the anti-sweatshop. It boasts a living wage three times the legal minimum, high health and safety standards, and a legitimate union-all verified by an independent monitor. It is the only apparel factory in the global south to meet these criteria. The Alta Gracia business model represents an alternative to the industry's race to the bottom with its inherent poverty wages and unsafe factory conditions. Workers' stories reveal how adding $0.90 to a sweatshirt's production price can change lives: from getting a life-saving operation to reuniting families; from obtaining first-ever bank loans to getting running water; from purchasing children's school uniforms to taking night classes. Sewing Hope invites readers into the apparel industry's sweatshops and the Alta Gracia factory. Learn how the anti-sweatshop started, how it overcame challenges, and how the impact of its business model could transform the global industry.Trade Review“Full of data with academic rigor arguing for a living wage as well as rich stories of the impact in human lives of such a wage. We highly recommend the book.” * The Human Thread *"This is a must read for anyone concerned with escalating inequality globally and the potential of labor organizing in tandem with more humane corporate management for transforming communities." * New York Journal of Books *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Difference between Heaven and Earth Introducing Alta Gracia 2. From Factory Favorite to Fighter Human Cost of the “Race to the Bottom” 3. Risky Proposition, Unlikely Alliance Founding a New Factory 4. Ideals into Action Building an Anti-Sweatshop Model 5. Escaping Scripted Roles Unexpected Benefits of a New Approach 6. Stories of Transformation Diverse Impacts of a Living Wage 7. Surviving on Our Own Adjusting the Business Model 8. Replication or Revolution Alta Gracia in Context Afterword: Taking Action Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThe book focuses on the role political processes play in solving certain key problems which have accompanied economic development in both the developed and less developed nations of the world. By breaking down the factors which define development into clear cut categories, namely population, food, energy, the environment, and technology, the author offers a useful approach to understanding the problems the world is facing today and will continue to face for the foreseeable future. The text provides a useful guide and resource for those who wish to grasp the implications of the rapid growth of the world''s population, world hunger, the threat of nuclear war, uncertain energy supplies, acid rain and deforestation.Table of ContentsPreface xi 1 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations 1 The Orthodox Approach 2 The Radical Approach 5 The Growth-with-Equity Approach 8 Conclusions 12 Notes 15 2 Population and Development 17 The Changing Population of the World 17 Causes of the Population Explosion 24 Population Growth Affects Development 26 Development Affects Population Growth 30 Governmental Population Policies 34 The Future 39 Conclusions 43 Notes 44 3 Food and Development 46 Food Production 46 How Many Are Hungry? 47 Causes of World Hunger 48 Food Affects Development 51 Development Affects Food 53 The Green Revolution 62 Governmental Food Policies 63 Future Food Supplies 66 Conclusions 71 Notes 72 4 Energy and Development 76 The Energy Crisis 76 Responses by Governments to the Energy Crisis 80 The Effect of the Energy Crisis on Third World Development Plans 84 The Relationship Between Energy Use and Development 86 The Greenhouse Effect 91 The Energy Transition 94 Nuclear Power: A Case Study 103 Conclusions 111 Notes 113 5 The Environment and Development 117 The Awakening 117 The Air 119 The Water 123 The Land 126 The Workplace and the Home 132 The Use of Natural Resources 135 The Extinction of Species 139 Environmental Politics 142 Conclusions 144 Notes 146 6 Technology and Development 149 Benefits of Technology 149 Short-term versus Long-term Benefits 150 Unanticipated Consequences of the Use of Technology 153 Inappropriate Uses of Technology 156 Limits to the "Technological Fix" 158 The Threat of Nuclear War: A Case Study 160 Conclusions 166 Notes 167 7 Alternative Futures 170 Doom 171 Growth 175 Steady State 177 Conclusions 179 Notes 181 Selected Bibliography 183 Index 189

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Book SynopsisThe author offers an approach to the study of both debt and development, focusing on the international debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and its economic and geopolitical consequences.Table of ContentsList of Tables. List of Figures. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. One: Introduction. Part I: Describing the Debt Crisis-A Standard Narrative Account:. Two: The Debt Crisis: a Standard Narrative Account. 1. Introduction. DATA AND DEFINITIONS. 2. Data Sources. 3. Definitions. THE DEBT CRISIS TAKES SHAPE. 4. Debt Trends: 1945-1982. 5. The Crisis: 1982-1983. DEBT CRISIS MANAGEMENT. 6. Containment, Adjustment and Austerity. 7. The Baker Plan: Adjustment with Growth. 8. Brady and the Market-menu Approach. Part II: Decoding the Debt Crisis: Discourses on Debt and Development:. Three: The Debt Crisis: A system-stability Perspective. 1. Introduction. 2. Subjective Perspectives, Invisible Hands and Spontaneous Orders. 3. The Counter-revolution in Development Theory and Policy. 4. The Debt Crisis: Two System-stability Models. 5. Policing the Debt Crisis. 6. Conclusion and Critique. Four: The Debt Crisis: a System-correction Perspective. 1. Introduction. 2. Keynesianism-Pragmatism. 3. Keynesian Development Studies. 4. Debt and Development. 5. Policies for Debt Crisis Management. 6. Conclusion and Critique. Five: The Debt Crisis: a System-instability Perspective. 1. Introduction. 2. Marxism and Radical Political Economy. 3. Radical Development Studies. 4. Debt and Development Crisis. 5. Policing the Debt Crisis. 6. Conclusion and Critique. Six: Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this invaluable introduction to the major post-Second World War theories of Third World development, Peter Preston takes as his focus the strategies used to analyze change in the Third World and examines the ways in which different conceptions of the nature of change have led to different lines of policy advice. In doing so, the author demonstrates how the various contemporary approaches to development draw upon strategies of enquiry which are lodged deep within the intellectual traditions of the modern world. The author''s approach is based on the premise that the reader can only fully grasp the live issues and debates surrounding development through an understanding of the linkages with the broader frameworks of social theory. The volume is organized into four major sections: An introduction to the nature of social scientific analysis; A review of the work of the major social scientific figures of the nineteenth century and their impTrade Review"The author's approach is scholarly and informative, and his book deserves a place in the teaching resources of most departments ..." David Drakakis-Smith, University of Liverpool "A readable, illuminating account ..." Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Table of ContentsList of Figures. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: The Nature of Social Theorising:. 1. Arguments and Actions in Social Theorising. Part II: Classical Social Theory:. 2. The Rise of a Social Science of Humankind. 3. Adam Smith and the Spontaneous Order of the Marketplace. 4. Karl Marx and the Dialectics of Historical Change. 5. Emile Durkheim and the Evolution of the Division of Labour. 6. The Transitional Work of Max Weber. 7. The Divisions of Intellectual Labour of the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991. Part III: Contemporary Theories of Development:. 8. The Legacies of the Colonial Era: Structures, Institutions and Images. 9. Decolonization, Cold War and the Construction of Modernization Theory. 10. The Development Experience of Latin America: Structuralism and Dependency Theory. 11. The Pursuit of Effective Nationstatehood: The Work of the Institutionalist Development Theorists. 12. The Critical Work of Marxist Development Theory. 13. The Assertion of Third World Solidarity: Global Development Approaches. 14. The Affirmation of the Role of the Market: Metropolitan Neo Liberalism in the 1980s. Part IV: New Analyses of Complex Change:. 15. Global System Interdependence: The New Structural Analyses of the Dynamics of Industrial-Capitalism. 16. Agent Centered Analyses and the Acknowledgment of the Diversity of Forms-of-life. 17. The Formal Character of a New General Approach to Development. 18. A New Substantive Focus: From Theorising the Development of the Third World to Elucidating the Dynamics of Complex Change in the Tripolar Global Industrial-Capitalist system. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of development theory from the Physiocrats and the classical School to Solow, Lewis, and Lucas and Roemer. This book develops a general system of growth equations that focus on the central role of technology change. It demonstrates how political economy factors suggest and enhanced endogenization of policy choices.Trade Review"The really attractive thing about this book is that it discusses economic development in an evolutionary perspective, with a very detailed catalog of ideal types, but always in a unified theoretical framework. The student will learn a lot about historical development paths, and even more about economic theory." Robert M. Solow, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Part I: Introduction:. 1. Growth and Development: An Overview. Part II: Agrarianism and Dualism:. 2. From Closed and Open Agrarianism to Modern Dualism. 3. Development of the Closed Dualistic Economy: A Bird's Eye View. Part III: The Analytics of Growth and Development:. 4. The Neoclassical Production Function, Growth and Development. 5. A General Analysis of Growth Systems. 6. Applications to Modern Economic Growth. Part IV: Applications to Growth and Development under Dualism:. 7. Transition Growth in the Closed Dualistic Economy. 8. Transition Growth under Open Dualism. 9. Growth, Equity, and Human Development. Part V: Conclusions for Policy:. 10. Policy and Political Economy in the Transition to Modern Economic Growth. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field's classical origins to today's debates about the magic of the free market. Explores the foundations of the anthropology of development, a field newly animated by theories of globalization and transnationalism Framed by an encyclopedic introduction that will prove indispensable to students and experts alike Includes readings ranging from Weber and Marx and Engels to contemporary works on the politics of development knowledge, consumption, environment, gender, international NGO networks, the IMF, campaigns to reform the World Bank, the collapse of socialism, and the limits of post-developmentalism Fills a crucial gap in the literature by mingling historical, cultural, political, and economic perspectives on development and globalization Trade Review"Edelman and Haugerud present a series of analyses that very clearly demonstrate the complexity of practice and debates surrounding the anthropology of development and globalization." (The Kelingrove Review, October 2008) “Certainly, it enriches our understanding of development by signalling the interdisciplinary sensibilities of development studies scholarship as well as the complex interplay of political economy, history and culture that shapes development processes.” (Development and Change) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud. Part I: Classical Foundations:. Introduction. 1. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or Of Productive and Unproductive Labor: Adam Smith. 2. Manifesto of the Communist Party:Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 3. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit:Max Weber. 4. The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money: Karl Polyani. Part II: What is “Development”? Twentieth-Century Debates:. Introduction. 5. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory: Colin Leys. 6. The History and Politics of Development Knowledge: Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard. 7. Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: “Development” in the Constitution of a Discipline: James Ferguson. Part III: From Development to Globalization:. Introduction. 8. Globalization, Dis-integration, Re-organization: The Transformations of Violence: Jonathan Friedman. 9. The Globalization Movement: Some Points of Clarification: David Graeber. 10. Globalization After September 11: Saskia Sassen. 11. Millennial Capitalismand the Culture of Neoliberalism: Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff. Part IV: Consumption, Markets, Culture:. Introduction. 12. Agricultural Involution Revisited:Clifford Geertz. 13. Nontraditional Commodities and Structural Adjustment in Africa: Peter D. Little and Catherine S. Dolan. 14. Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Contested Cultural Developmentalism: Louisa Schein. 15. A Theory of Virtualism: Consumption as Negation: Daniel Miller. 16. Is Culture a Barrier to Change?: Emma Crewe and Elizabeth Harrison. Part V: Gender, Work, and Networks:. Introduction. 17. “Men-streaming” Gender? Question for Gender and Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century: Sylvia Chant and Matthew Gutmann. 18. Deterritorialziation and Workplace Culture: Jane Collins. 19. The Network Inside Out:Annelise Riles. Part VI: Nature, Environment, and Biotechnology:. Introduction. 20. Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia: Nancy Lee Peluso. 21. Misreading the African Landscape:Melissa Leach and James Fairhead. 22. Colonial Encounters in Postcolonial Contexts: Patenting Indigenous DNA and the Human Genome Diversity Project:Hilary Cunningham. Part VII: Inside Development Institutions:. 23. Advocacy Research and the World Bank: Propositions for Discussion: Jonathan Fox. 24. Development Narratives, Or Making the Best of Blueprint Development:. Emery Roe. 25. The Social Organization of the IMF’s Mission Work:. Richard Harper. Part VIII: Development Alternatives, Alternatives to Development?:. Introduction. 26. Imagining a Post-Development Era: Arturo Escobar. 27. Beyond Development?:Katy Gardner and David Lewis. 28. Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty: Elizabeth Isichei. 29. Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State: Barbara Chasin and Richard Franke. 30. What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?:Katherine Verdery. 31. Disappearing the Poor?: John Gledhil. Index

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Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Development and Globalization is a collection of readings that provides an unprecedented overview of this field that ranges from the field's classical origins to today's debates about the magic of the free market. Explores the foundations of the anthropology of development, a field newly animated by theories of globalization and transnationalism Framed by an encyclopedic introduction that will prove indispensable to students and experts alike Includes readings ranging from Weber and Marx and Engels to contemporary works on the politics of development knowledge, consumption, environment, gender, international NGO networks, the IMF, campaigns to reform the World Bank, the collapse of socialism, and the limits of post-developmentalism Fills a crucial gap in the literature by mingling historical, cultural, political, and economic perspectives on development and globalization Trade Review“Anthropology is nothing unless also concerned with contemporary social and political questions. Edelman and Haugerud’s set of readings and wide-ranging, authoritative introduction will be indispensable to scholars and practitioners alike.” Ralph Grillo, University of Sussex “Enhanced by the editors’ knowledgeable introduction, which draws attention to anthropology’s silences as well as engagements with classical and contemporary political economy, this comprehensive anthology will be of great value to scholars, students, and practitioners.” Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University “Certainly, it enriches our understanding of development by signalling the interdisciplinary sensibilities of development studies scholarship as well as the complex interplay of political economy, history and culture that shapes development processes.” Development and Change Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud. Part I: Classical Foundations:. Introduction. 1. Of the Accumulation of Capital, or Of Productive and Unproductive Labor: Adam Smith. 2. Manifesto of the Communist Party:Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. 3. The Evolution of the Capitalistic Spirit:Max Weber. 4. The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money: Karl Polyani. Part II: What is “Development”? Twentieth-Century Debates:. Introduction. 5. The Rise and Fall of Development Theory: Colin Leys. 6. The History and Politics of Development Knowledge: Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard. 7. Anthropology and Its Evil Twin: “Development” in the Constitution of a Discipline: James Ferguson. Part III: From Development to Globalization:. Introduction. 8. Globalization, Dis-integration, Re-organization: The Transformations of Violence: Jonathan Friedman. 9. The Globalization Movement: Some Points of Clarification: David Graeber. 10. Globalization After September 11: Saskia Sassen. 11. Millennial Capitalismand the Culture of Neoliberalism: Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff. Part IV: Consumption, Markets, Culture:. Introduction. 12. Agricultural Involution Revisited:Clifford Geertz. 13. Nontraditional Commodities and Structural Adjustment in Africa: Peter D. Little and Catherine S. Dolan. 14. Market Mentalities, Iron Satellite Dishes, and Contested Cultural Developmentalism: Louisa Schein. 15. A Theory of Virtualism: Consumption as Negation: Daniel Miller. 16. Is Culture a Barrier to Change?: Emma Crewe and Elizabeth Harrison. Part V: Gender, Work, and Networks:. Introduction. 17. “Men-streaming” Gender? Question for Gender and Development Policy in the Twenty-first Century: Sylvia Chant and Matthew Gutmann. 18. Deterritorialziation and Workplace Culture: Jane Collins. 19. The Network Inside Out:Annelise Riles. Part VI: Nature, Environment, and Biotechnology:. Introduction. 20. Whose Woods Are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia: Nancy Lee Peluso. 21. Misreading the African Landscape:Melissa Leach and James Fairhead. 22. Colonial Encounters in Postcolonial Contexts: Patenting Indigenous DNA and the Human Genome Diversity Project:Hilary Cunningham. Part VII: Inside Development Institutions:. 23. Advocacy Research and the World Bank: Propositions for Discussion: Jonathan Fox. 24. Development Narratives, Or Making the Best of Blueprint Development:. Emery Roe. 25. The Social Organization of the IMF’s Mission Work:. Richard Harper. Part VIII: Development Alternatives, Alternatives to Development?:. Introduction. 26. Imagining a Post-Development Era: Arturo Escobar. 27. Beyond Development?:Katy Gardner and David Lewis. 28. Village Intellectuals and the Challenge of Poverty: Elizabeth Isichei. 29. Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State: Barbara Chasin and Richard Franke. 30. What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?:Katherine Verdery. 31. Disappearing the Poor?: John Gledhil. Index

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Book SynopsisThe transformation of the Cuban economy over the last decade is only likely to accelerate. In this edited volume, prominent Cuban economists and sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens.Trade ReviewThis rich compilation is essential reading for all looking to understand Cuba's growth record as well as its economic sustainability in a globalized economic terrain. -- Patrice M. Franko * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe Cold War–era experiments of the Global South make clear that socialism is more than Stalinism. Jeremy Friedman looks to Indonesia, Chile, Tanzania, Angola, and Iran to understand how socialism has worked in practice. Each state developed its own socialism, pragmatically addressing local needs and shaping the horizons of socialism today.Trade ReviewImpressive…Although the pursuit of socialism in the global South generally ended in failure, Friedman argues that it left lasting legacies across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *Impressive…[Ripe for Revolution] reveals much that we did not know—and have been desperate to learn—about Soviet involvement in, and evaluations of, the Third World. -- Tanya Harmer * H-Diplo *A brilliantly original study of how communism was transformed by its encounter with the postcolonial world, forging a model of socialist development that shapes our world down to the present. In an era overshadowed by talk of a new Cold War, Ripe for Revolution is essential reading. -- Adam Tooze, author of Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the WorldAn illuminating exploration of the power of the concept of socialism, especially in the developing world, that provides clues to today’s challenges—from Xi Jinping’s ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ to Bernie Sanders’s ‘socialism with American characteristics.’ -- Graham Allison, author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?An outstanding book. By showing how and why socialism became a preferred model for state building and social transformation in countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Friedman reestablishes the centrality of non-capitalist models of development and illuminates what made scientific socialism so attractive for so many in the postcolonial world. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea RelationsOriginal and lucid, Ripe for Revolution confirms Friedman’s standing as one of our foremost practitioners of Cold War international history. His book deepens our understanding of the winding path of Soviet promotion of socialism, incisively revealing strains of pragmatic calculation within ideological parameters. It not only has fresh implications for understanding the postwar communist realm but also illuminates Western Cold War calculations. -- James G. Hershberg, author of Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in VietnamFriedman strides confidently around the world to the hotspots of late Cold War socialism, from Tanzania to Chile and Angola to Indonesia, to show the many ways in which Marx, Lenin, and Mao were put into practice. With a dazzling array of sources about the local varieties of socialism, Friedman never loses track of geopolitics. The result is a tour de force of Cold War history on a global scale. -- David C. Engerman, author of The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in IndiaTransforming how we see the Cold War and its legacies, Friedman punctuates standard narratives of capitalist diffusion as he tracks the variety of policies and institutions across different socialist states alongside their stubborn independence from patrons in Moscow and Beijing. Anyone interested in understanding political development in the Global South must read this revealing book. -- Jeremi Suri, author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office

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Book SynopsisObstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings provides practical guidelines for ensuring quality care to women in locations where facilities are inadequate, equipment and medications are in short supply, and medical staff are few. This reference will be an essential companion to health care providers throughout the world.Trade ReviewUnder Nawal Nour’s guidance and gentle tutelage, this book lays out current knowledge about the ranking threats—from obstetric fistula and genital cutting to obstructed labor and stillbirths, cervical cancer, HIV, and malaria in pregnancy—to the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of women. Nor are gender-based violence and access to contraception scanted, as so often in medical texts. Obstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings: A Practical Guide will prove indispensable to students, trainees, and clinicians seeking to span such divides in order to improve and save lives. It’s a go-to reference for all those who care about the role of gender equity in the broader struggle for global health equity. And that should mean all of us. -- Paul E. Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and cofounder of Partners In HealthDr. Nour has gathered the foremost experts in obstetrics and gynecology to address the most devastating health issues faced by women in low-resource settings. Practical and easy to read, this book is essential for health providers working in low-resource regions of the world, and indispensable for individuals committed to improving the health and well-being of women everywhere. Not only meant to improve women’s lives, this publication will no doubt save women’s lives. -- Christy Turlington Burns, global maternal health advocate and founder of Every Mother CountsObstetrics and Gynecology in Low-Resource Settings: A Practical Guide is the first book of its kind to describe a broad range of applications to women’s health worldwide. As a resource for not only physicians, but also non-physician women’s health providers, this volume will have a broad appeal. Of importance is the inclusion of information regarding the need to learn cultural sensitivity and an appreciation of the need to highlight social determinants of maternal mortality and morbidity, including gender-based violence. -- Douglas W. Laube, past president, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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Book SynopsisWorld leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet, it persists. This book argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institution, the World Development Corporation (WDC), a partnership of multinational corporations (MNCs), international development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).Trade Review"A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty provides a valuable--and exceedingly readable--primer on corporate social responsibility as well as a compelling approach to the use of corporate wealth to benefit the world's poorest."--Joshua Rosenthal, International Law and PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Prologue 1 PART I: The Legitimacy Gap Chapter 1: Introduction 9 Chapter 2: The Legitimacy of Business 21 PART II: Reactions, Responses, and Responsibilities Chapter 3: NGOs and the Attack: Critics, Watchdogs, and Collaborators 45 Chapter 4: The Corporate Response 71 Chapter 5: International Development Architecture 90 Chapter 6: The Emerging International Consensus 117 PART III: Global Poverty Reduction and the Role of Big Business Chapter 7: The Options for Business Contributions 137 Chapter 8: A World Development Corporation 155 Notes 165 Bibliography 177 Index 185

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Book SynopsisHow can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In this book, the author - the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank - focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves.Trade Review"Lin, the chief economist and senior vice president for the World Bank from 2008 to 2012, tackles prevailing shibboleths in this provocative and challenging work... While there is no easy answer to these problems, Lin's reminder that such development is not a 'zero-sum game' suggests that his thoughtful study should resonate among international audiences."--Publishers Weekly "[A] brilliant survey of economic thought on the subject, from Adam Smith through Solow-Swan to Michael Spence's Growth Commission. Thousands of authoritative-sounding economic history essays will be written on the back of it by students smart enough to read it before their professors do... [A]s an accessible summary of how the World Bank ... thinks about development these days, The Quest for Prosperity is hard to beat. It will quickly find its way on to the course reading lists for development economics master's programmes."--Howard Davies, Times Higher Education "Justin Lin, the Chinese economist who was, until recently, chief economist of the World Bank, has written a book that is as remarkable as it is ambitious: its aim is to show the route to economic development. This is ambitious, because it has been the holy grail of economics since its inception. It is remarkable, because he largely succeeds. One does not have to accept everything Lin argues to recognise that he has made an invaluable contribution... Moreover, the book is also excellently written. A book on a subject of the highest importance, which is intelligent, original, practical and thought-provoking, deserves indeed to be read."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "In this book, Justin Yifu Lin, the World Bank's first non-western chief economist, offers a fascinating overview of development thinking since the Second World War."--Lisa Moyle, Financial World "Here, Lin, a former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, explains here in detail the model he created there for developing economies to achieve success and sustainability... The book is well organized and thus it is easy for readers to find information discussed throughout the book as a whole. Lin's use of history and popular culture metaphors make complex economic concepts more accessible to lay readers, especially in his analysis of global economics."--Library Journal "The most valuable new book I've read this year is Justin Yifu Lin's The Quest for Prosperity... Lin's book is intellectually ambitious. He sets out to survey the modern history of economic development and distill a practical formula for growing out of poverty. It's a serious undertaking: Lin isn't trying to be another pop economics sensation. But The Quest for Prosperity is lightly written and accessible. It weaves in pertinent stories and observations, drawing especially from his travels with the World Bank. He leavens the economics skillfully."--Clive Crook, Bloomberg News "Lin ... makes a case for what he calls a 'new structuralist' approach to economic development. Drawing on the experience of many countries, especially China, he argues for an active role for government in fostering development, not only through the traditional provision of infrastructure and the enforcement of rules but also in identifying and supporting industries that contribute to growth... Lin presents a thought-provoking argument."--Foreign Affairs "The book is peppered with deep insights from economic thought, practical wisdom, and personal experience, and is easily accessible to policy makers, business leaders, and undergraduates studying development economics."--Choice "[T]his is indeed a stimulating volume, clearly indicating the author's extraordinary command of the development literature and his equally extraordinary level of motivation in making his case."--Gustav Ranis, Journal of Economic Literature "The Quest for Prosperity is a quintessential economics book drafted within the paradigm of Western epistemology."--Bulent Temel, Journal of Economic GeographyTable of ContentsPrologue ix An Intriguing Offer x Strange Childhood Memories from Africa xi 1 New Challenges and New Solutions 1 The Bane of Excess Capacity 3 The Apparent Mystery of Economic Success 5 Taking Einstein's Joke Seriously: A New Structural Economics 8 2 A Battle of Narratives and Changing Paradigms 13 Giving Meaning to One's Life 14 The Evolution of Growth 17 Deciphering the Mystery of Poverty and Wealth 20 Robert Lucas and the Drycleaner's Daughter 26 Explaining Convergence and Divergence 29 Development Thinking: A Tale of Progress, Waves, Fads, and Fashion 33 The Frustrating Search for New Answers 42 The Need for New Strategic Thinking 45 3 Economic Development: Lessons from Failures 49 Viability as the Hidden Ingredient to Economic Success 52 The Political Economy of Dreams and Ignorance 61 "Do Not Look Where You Fell but Where You Slipped" 67 Not Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater 71 4 Lessons from Successful Catch-up Countries 76 Squaring the Circle: The Contribution of The Growth Report 78 Recognizing That Some Countries May Have Found the Holy Grail 85 Modern Economic Growth: The Secret of Advanced Countries 97 5 A Framework for Rethinking Development: A New Structural Economics 102 Why Burundi Is Not Switzerland 104 Understanding Economic Development: A Conceptual Framework 108 The Optimal Speed and Sequencing of Prosperity 112 Putting New Wine in New Bottles 117 6 What Would Be Done Differently under the New Structural Economics? 121 Fiscal Policy: Free Airplanes, Railroads, and Bridges? 123 Money to Impoverish--or Money to Enrich 127 Surviving Wealth: Public Revenue Management in Resource-Rich Countries 130 Financial Development: Those Bankers We Love to Hate 136 The Need for Poor Countries to Choose Their Type of Foreign Capital 139 Sorting Out the Paradoxes of Trade Policy 141 Deciphering the Mysteries of Human Development 143 7 Putting the New Structural Economics into Practice: Two Tracks and Six Steps 147 To Identify or Not to Identify: That Is the Question 149 How to Identify Industries with Latent Comparative Advantages: A Few Principles 154 A Practical Guide for Sequencing Structural Transformation 158 8 The Peculiar Identities and Trajectories of Transition Economies 179 Imaginary Confessions in Heaven: The Politics of Reforms 181 Back to Earth: The Economics of Multiple Distortions 190 Options for Economic Reform: Big Bang or Gradualism? 195 Thriving Transitions: Lessons from China, Slovenia, and a Few Other Countries 201 9 Fostering Structural Change at Higher Levels of Development 209 Fighting Off the Middle-Income Curse 214 Keeping Pace with the Times 221 GIF Principles and Continued Structural Transformation 224 Understanding the Economics of Wealth and Greatness 229 10 A Recipe for Economic Prosperity 234 Understanding the True Nature and Causes of Economic Development 237 Industrial Policy in Action 242 Being Too Cautious: The Greatest Risk of All 246 Glossary 251 Notes 259 References 287 Index 309

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Book SynopsisHow can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu Lin--the first non-Westerner to be chief economist of the World Bank--focuses on what developing nations can do to help themselves. Lin examines how the coTrade Review"Lin, the chief economist and senior vice president for the World Bank from 2008 to 2012, tackles prevailing shibboleths in this provocative and challenging work... While there is no easy answer to these problems, Lin's reminder that such development is not a 'zero-sum game' suggests that his thoughtful study should resonate among international audiences."--Publishers Weekly "[A] brilliant survey of economic thought on the subject, from Adam Smith through Solow-Swan to Michael Spence's Growth Commission. Thousands of authoritative-sounding economic history essays will be written on the back of it by students smart enough to read it before their professors do... [A]s an accessible summary of how the World Bank ... thinks about development these days, The Quest for Prosperity is hard to beat. It will quickly find its way on to the course reading lists for development economics master's programmes."--Howard Davies, Times Higher Education "Justin Lin, the Chinese economist who was, until recently, chief economist of the World Bank, has written a book that is as remarkable as it is ambitious: its aim is to show the route to economic development. This is ambitious, because it has been the holy grail of economics since its inception. It is remarkable, because he largely succeeds. One does not have to accept everything Lin argues to recognise that he has made an invaluable contribution... Moreover, the book is also excellently written. A book on a subject of the highest importance, which is intelligent, original, practical and thought-provoking, deserves indeed to be read."--Martin Wolf, Financial Times "In this book, Justin Yifu Lin, the World Bank's first non-western chief economist, offers a fascinating overview of development thinking since the Second World War."--Lisa Moyle, Financial World "Here, Lin, a former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, explains here in detail the model he created there for developing economies to achieve success and sustainability... The book is well organized and thus it is easy for readers to find information discussed throughout the book as a whole. Lin's use of history and popular culture metaphors make complex economic concepts more accessible to lay readers, especially in his analysis of global economics."--Library Journal "The most valuable new book I've read this year is Justin Yifu Lin's The Quest for Prosperity... Lin's book is intellectually ambitious. He sets out to survey the modern history of economic development and distill a practical formula for growing out of poverty. It's a serious undertaking: Lin isn't trying to be another pop economics sensation. But The Quest for Prosperity is lightly written and accessible. It weaves in pertinent stories and observations, drawing especially from his travels with the World Bank. He leavens the economics skillfully."--Clive Crook, Bloomberg News "Lin ... makes a case for what he calls a 'new structuralist' approach to economic development. Drawing on the experience of many countries, especially China, he argues for an active role for government in fostering development, not only through the traditional provision of infrastructure and the enforcement of rules but also in identifying and supporting industries that contribute to growth... Lin presents a thought-provoking argument."--Foreign Affairs "The book is peppered with deep insights from economic thought, practical wisdom, and personal experience, and is easily accessible to policy makers, business leaders, and undergraduates studying development economics."--Choice "[T]his is indeed a stimulating volume, clearly indicating the author's extraordinary command of the development literature and his equally extraordinary level of motivation in making his case."--Gustav Ranis, Journal of Economic Literature "The Quest for Prosperity is an interesting and enjoyable read."--Mukti P. Upadhyay, European Journal of Developmental ResearchTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition ix Prologue xix An Intriguing Offer xx Strange Childhood Memories from Africa xxi 1New Challenges and New Solutions 1 The Bane of Excess Capacity 3 The Apparent Mystery of Economic Success 5 Taking Einstein's Joke Seriously: A New Structural Economics 8 2A Battle of Narratives and Changing Paradigms 13 Giving Meaning to One's Life 14 The Evolution of Growth 17 Deciphering the Mystery of Poverty and Wealth 20 Robert Lucas and the Drycleaner's Daughter 26 Explaining Convergence and Divergence 29 Development Thinking: A Tale of Progress, Waves, Fads, and Fashion 33 The Frustrating Search for New Answers 42 The Need for New Strategic Thinking 45 3Economic Development: Lessons from Failures 49 Viability as the Hidden Ingredient to Economic Success 52 The Political Economy of Dreams and Ignorance 61 "Do Not Look Where You Fell but Where You Slipped" 67 Not Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater 71 4Lessons from Successful Catch-up Countries 76 Squaring the Circle: The Contribution of The Growth Report 78 Recognizing That Some Countries May Have Found the Holy Grail 85 Modern Economic Growth: The Secret of Advanced Countries 97 5A Framework for Rethinking Development: A New Structural Economics 102 Why Burundi Is Not Switzerland 104 Understanding Economic Development: A Conceptual Framework 108 The Optimal Speed and Sequencing of Prosperity 112 Putting New Wine in New Bottles 117 6What Would Be Done Differently under the New Structural Economics? 121 Fiscal Policy: Free Airplanes, Railroads, and Bridges? 123 Money to Impoverish--or Money to Enrich 127 Surviving Wealth: Public Revenue Management in Resource-Rich Countries 130 Financial Development: Those Bankers We Love to Hate 136 The Need for Poor Countries to Choose Their Type of Foreign Capital 139 Sorting Out the Paradoxes of Trade Policy 141 Deciphering the Mysteries of Human Development 143 7Putting the New Structural Economics into Practice: Two Tracks and Six Steps 147 To Identify or Not to Identify: That Is the Question 149 How to Identify Industries with Latent Comparative Advantages: A Few Principles 154 A Practical Guide for Sequencing Structural Transformation 158 8The Peculiar Identities and Trajectories of Transition Economies 179 Imaginary Confessions in Heaven: The Politics of Reforms 181 Back to Earth: The Economics of Multiple Distortions 190 Options for Economic Reform: Big Bang or Gradualism? 195 Thriving Transitions: Lessons from China, Slovenia, and a Few Other Countries 201 9Fostering Structural Change at Higher Levels of Development 209 Fighting Off the Middle-Income Curse 214 Keeping Pace with the Times 221 GIF Principles and Continued Structural Transformation 224 Understanding the Economics of Wealth and Greatness 229 10A Recipe for Economic Prosperity 234 Understanding the True Nature and Causes of Economic Development 237 Industrial Policy in Action 242 Being Too Cautious: The Greatest Risk of All 246 Glossary 251 Notes 259 References 287 Index 309

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The authors argue persuasively that some regimes are capable of moving from authoritarian forms of government to democracy."---Warren I. Cohen, Washington Post"From Development to Democracy offers an engaging and novel theoretical argument that the authors present in a lucid and highly readable manner. . . . The book makes an important contribution to democratization studies, but it might also interest area specialists and historians of Asia. I recommend it thoroughly."---Etienne Hanelt, Democratization

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this book, Éloi Laurent addresses the challenge of ensuring that measurement of the economy reflects all the dimensions of what society values, including the sustainable use of resources. This is a practical contribution to the increasingly salient agenda of going `beyond GDP' in setting metrics to guide public policy, incorporating indicators of environmental quality and well-being."—Diane Coyle, author of GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History"Measuring Tomorrow maps the terrain of a burgeoning field, drawing together a wealth of information and insights on the measurement of human and ecological well‐being, and contrasting new measures with the conventional narrow focus on GDP."—James K. Boyce, University of Massachusetts Amherst"Measuring Tomorrow has important things to say about how we can make sustainability and well-being more central to our politics and societies."—Daniel Mügge, University of Amsterdam

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Book SynopsisCritiques the very essence of development policy, especially the complex relationship between policy and practice and role of participation.Trade Review'A superb book, one of those rarities that can change entire ways of thinking' -- Scott Guggenheim, Lead Social Scientist, The World Bank'Strongly argued, vividly illustrated and fluently written. Highly recommended' -- Amita Baviskar, Visiting Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University'Any development professional will find scenarios that are recognisable here. As the many entry points slowly build up into a rich and thick description of the project' world, it becomes clear that this candid depiction forces us to engage with candid questions especially about the book's two principal concepts: practice and policy' -- Ingie Hovland, Development Policy Review'A brave and crucial work which dismantles the accepted orthodoxies about the making of development by development agencies. Everyone with an interest in development - whether practitioner or critic - should read this book' -- Dinah Rajak, Development in PracticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary and abbreviations 1. Introduction: The Ethnography of Policy and Practice 2. Framing a Participatory Development Project 3. Tribal Livelihoods and the Development Frontier 4. The Goddess and the PRA: Local Knowledge and Planning 5. Implementation: Regime and Relationships 6. Consultant Knowledge 7. The Social Production of Development Success 8. Aid Policy and Project Failure 9. Aspirations for Development 10. Conclusions and Implications Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCritiques the very essence of development policy, especially the complex relationship between policy and practice and role of participation.Trade Review'A superb book, one of those rarities that can change entire ways of thinking' -- Scott Guggenheim, Lead Social Scientist, The World Bank'Strongly argued, vividly illustrated and fluently written. Highly recommended' -- Amita Baviskar, Visiting Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University'Any development professional will find scenarios that are recognisable here. As the many entry points slowly build up into a rich and thick description of the project' world, it becomes clear that this candid depiction forces us to engage with candid questions especially about the book's two principal concepts: practice and policy' -- Ingie Hovland, Development Policy Review'A brave and crucial work which dismantles the accepted orthodoxies about the making of development by development agencies. Everyone with an interest in development - whether practitioner or critic - should read this book' -- Dinah Rajak, Development in PracticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary and abbreviations 1. Introduction: The Ethnography of Policy and Practice 2. Framing a Participatory Development Project 3. Tribal Livelihoods and the Development Frontier 4. The Goddess and the PRA: Local Knowledge and Planning 5. Implementation: Regime and Relationships 6. Consultant Knowledge 7. The Social Production of Development Success 8. Aid Policy and Project Failure 9. Aspirations for Development 10. Conclusions and Implications Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA critical look at how a non-traditional, technocratic development industry is failing the societies it professes to helpTrade Review'Ameliorates the despair which students of development often feel once they come to understand the complexity, and the vested interests, of the aid industry' -- LSE Magazine'An authoritative and up to date overview that combines accurate and insightful overviews of the major contributions in the field with their own original and illuminating arguments' -- Professor James Ferguson, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University'Essential reading for all involved with anthropology or development - and essential proof that they should engage their perspectives with each other more deeply and more often' -- Professor Melissa Leach, Anthropologist and Director, Institute of Development Studies'The already impressive state of arts of the first book has been extended to most of the rapidly expanding literature of the last twenty years. This book is essential for anyone interested by debates concerning the relation between anthropology and development' -- Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan, Professor of Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseilles'This carefully reworked volume by two of development's most accomplished scholars reinvigorates, like no other treatise in the field, the connection between research, critique, and action in inspired and practical ways' -- Arturo Escobar, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'A valuable addition to the history and heritage of anthropologyof/in development' -- Community Development JournalTable of ContentsSeries Preface Preface Acknowledgements Glossary Acronyms Prelude: Development, Post-Development and More Development? 1. Understanding Development: Theory and Practice into the Twenty-First Century 2. Applying Anthropology 3. The Anthropology of Development 4. Anthropologists in Development: Access, Effects and Control 5. When Good Ideas Turn Bad: The Dominant Discourse Bites Back Conclusion: Anthropology, Development and Twenty-First Century Challenges Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to the degrowth movement worldwideTrade Review'Everyone knows we can't go on like this. As the world lurches from crisis to crisis, Exploring Degrowth outlines alternatives to a capitalism that expands like a cancer. This is a lively and accessible introduction to the ideas, theorists and controversies associated with degrowth' -- Jeff Sparrow, 'Guardian''This book is the perfect introduction to the burgeoning intellectual and activist movement of degrowth. Short, crisp and provocative' -- Giorgos Kallis, ecological economist, author of 'Limits''A superbly written reflection on degrowth politics' -- Ariel Salleh, editor of 'Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice''This is an excellent introduction to the degrowth perspective, an important contribution to an urgent debate.' -- John Holloway, author of 'Change the World Without Taking Power''We can improve people’s lives right now, without any growth at all, simply by sharing what we already have more fairly and investing in public goods. Equity is the antidote to the growth imperative. ... Of course, all of this leaves us with a million questions. What does a such an economy look like? How does it work? How do we get there? The book you hold in your hands traces a path through this thicket, and paints a picture of the new economy that lies ahead – an economy that enables human flourishing for all within planetary boundaries' -- Jason Hickel, author of 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World'Table of ContentsList of Figures and Boxes List of Abbreviations and Symbols Glossary Series Preface Foreword by Jason Hickel Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Exploring ‘Degrowth’ 2. Decolonising Our Growth Imaginaries 3. Degrowth in Practice 4. Political Strategies for Degrowth 5. The Degrowth Project: A Work in Progress Postface: ‘Now Is the Time of Monsters’ Appendix 1: A Platform for Degrowth Appendix 2: The Content of the Unconditional Autonomy Allowance Appendix 3: Implementing the Unconditional Autonomy Allowance: Transitionary Steps Notes Selected Further Reading and Links Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive historical tracing of how the contemporary finance-poverty-development nexus emergedTrade Review'Nick Bernards has crafted the definitive account of the history of poverty finance, skilfully revealing its entanglements with the uneven development of capitalism' -- Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Global Political Economy at Queen's University, Canada‘In this outstanding history of poverty finance, Nick Bernards show that financial exclusion persists not because of a lack of design or fancy technology but because the problem of uneven development is persistent and structural’ -- Andrew Leyshon, Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham'A much-needed book that should be read by anyone interested in the expansion of finance into everyday life. Rich with empirical details and comprehensive in its theoretical engagement with the interrelationship between finance and social justice, it throws into sharp relief how impoverished the conception of poverty reduction is when it relies on financial inclusion to improve welfare of people' -- Johnna Montgomerie, Professor of International Political Economy at King's College London'In this exemplary study, Nick Bernards shows why so many were seduced into wrongly believing that poverty finance might be the key to eradicating global poverty. In fact, its deployment was about advancing the narrow enrichment priorities of the powerful. A major contribution in the study of the politics of finance' -- Milford Bateman, author of 'Why Doesn't Microfinance Work? The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms Introduction Part I. Poverty finance and the antinomies of colonialism 1. A colonial problem 2. Poverty finance and nascent neoliberalism 3. Structural adjustment, backlash, and the turn to the local: Explaining the rise of microfinance Part II. Making markets for poverty finance 4. Commercialising community: Experiments with marketisation 5. From microcredit to financial inclusion Part III. Innovation to the rescue? 6. The forever-latent demand for microinsurance 7. Fintech and its limits Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsisaeo The first introductory textbook on development and international relations. aeo Covers the most significant issues facing the Third World in the current global political economy. aeo Highly accessible book with many student features, such as introductions, summaries and tables.Trade Review"Development and International Relations fills a need for a concise, up-to-date volume which interrogates the theory and practice of post-war development from the perspective of international relations. By subjecting development to scrutiny within the context of changes in the global system, Anna Dickson challenges not only the preoccupations of the discipline of international relations with the major powers but also advances a synthesis of post-war development efforts. There is no other major topic in international relations which has been so comprehensively ignored by mainstream international relations. Dickson is to be congratulated on her attempt to bring development from the periphery to the centre of the discipline. In linking development to the mainstream concerns of international relations this book will be a useful resource for teachers and students of development studies and world politics." Dr Marc Williams, University of Sussex Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Part I: Development Revisited:. 1. Development and International Relations: Theory and History. 2. A Question of Terminology. 3. Theories of Development. Part II: The Global Economy and Development: . 4. The East Asian NIEs. 5. The Environment and Development. 6. The Social Dimension: Poverty, Population and Hunger. 7. International Commodity Trade and Development. Part III: The Third World in the Emerging World Order: . 8. The Post-Cold War World and the South. 9. Development in a Global Context. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Offers a lively introduction to world population growth and the debates which surround it. aeo Original and provocative argument -- Furedi argues thatt he changing character of the population agenda is itself a problem worthy of investigation. aeo It challenges the basic assumptions of mainstream demographers and population professionals.Trade Review"The book's main strength is the identification and careful consideration of the range of perspectives that have emerged on population growth - and control - in the postwar period ... There is much to be commended in Furedi's 'unpacking' of the population and development issue." International Affairs Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Numbers Game. 2. Does Population Growth Matter?. 3. Population and North-South Relations. 4. Forging the Connection between Population and Development. 5. Development and Population Growth. 6. Influencing Fertility: Modernization without Development. 7. Targeting Women. 8. Environmentalism to the Rescue. 9. Conclusions: Population and Development Discourse - the Parting of the Ways. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisMany experts believe that population growth is the greatest threat facing humanity. Others argue that the link between population growth and insecurity is unproven. This concise and provocative book discusses both sides of this debate, examining the way the arguments have changed and evolved, and questioning the assumptions of the main protagonists. Furedi argues that the western preoccupation with population growth reveals more about the internal concerns of western societies than the socio-economic development of the south. He suggests that attempts to establish a causal link between increases in population and poverty lead to a pragmatic, even manipulative approach to the issue of development. Examining a broad range of key debates and controversies - the ''population bomb'' in Asia, the culture of a distinct regime of African fertility, the role of education in stabilizing population growth in Kerala - he contends that the marginalization of the goal of development is the outcoTrade Review"The book's main strength is the identification and careful consideration of the range of perspectives that have emerged on population growth - and control - in the postwar period ... There is much to be commended in Furedi's 'unpacking' of the population and development issue." International Affairs Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Numbers Game. 2. Does Population Growth Matter?. 3. Population and North-South Relations. 4. Forging the Connection between Population and Development. 5. Development and Population Growth. 6. Influencing Fertility: Modernization without Development. 7. Targeting Women. 8. Environmentalism to the Rescue. 9. Conclusions: Population and Development Discourse - the Parting of the Ways. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo A highly accessible account of the rise of contemporary popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World. aeo Examines the widespread emergence of popular movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia, arguing that these groups developed from a growing interest in democratic change during the 1980s and 1990s.Trade Review"In this thoughtful book, Haynes focuses on what is clearly a significant but hitherto relatively neglected recent trend in Third World societies - the spread of 'action groups'. He usefully brings together evidence of group activity across the range of Third World regions, social bases and issues. While careful neither to romanticize nor to overgeneralize, he shows how these groups not only constitute a strengthening of civil society but have the potential to contribute to a deepening of democracy." Dr Vicky Randall, University of Essex "A useful introduction to the study of civil societies in the Third World and as such, will almost certainly be added to reading lists on university courses on Third World politics and democratisation studies." Journal of Development StudiesTable of ContentsList of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Action Groups in Regional Focus. 3. Macroeconomic Decline and Action Groups. 4. Democracy and Indigenous Peoples. 5. Environmental Protection. 6. Women and Empowerment. 7. Islamist Action Groups. 8. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisWhen India was invented as a modern country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development.Trade Review"This is a major contribution on the political sociology of contemporary India. It is a detailed and incisive account of the changing state-society relationships in the context of elite movements (economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism) on the one hand and the popular mobilizations of the long-suppressed subordinate classes and castes on the other." Pranab Bardhan, University of California at Berkeley "This is a superb analysis of India's changing political economy from the 1940s to 2000. The authors sustain a clear and compelling argument while negotiating a thicket of contentious issues related to politics and the state at different levels, democracy, class structures, modes of accumulation, development, ideologies and religions. Essential reading for all scholars who have an interest in these subjects." David Potter, The Open University 'This is a useful book. The authors should be congratulated for providing a comprehensive treatment of a complex and fast changing political economy. The book can be used with profit for upper division courses dealing with post-independence India.' Contemporary Sociology "This is a Superb book, deserving readers from several fields." Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "Those who are seriously interested in acquiring an understanding of contemporary India are recommended to tackle this scholarly text." Progress in Human Geography "Interesting to the student of contemporary democracies, and i found reading them in conjunction very illuminating. When there is such an excellent body of English Language Literature on contemporary India society one wonders why it is that so many sociology students in the west will complete their studies without ever having read an article or picked up a book written on the 'world's largest democracy'." Journal of the British Sociological AssociationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations. Glossary. Map 1 Territorial growth of the East India Company, to 1843. Map 2 Contemporary India. Preface. Part 1: The Invention of Modern India. Chapter 1: The Light of Asia? India in 1947. Chapter 2: 'Sovereign, Democratic, Federal, Socialist, Secular': the Invention of Modern India. Part Two: Contesting Modernity. Chapter 3: the 'Tall Men' and the 'Third way': Nehru, Patel and the Building of Modern India. Chapter 4: Jealous Populism, Crises and Instability: Indira's India. Chapter 5: Drifting Towards Catastrophe: The Powerlessness of the Congress. Chapter 6: 'Elite Revolts': Reforming and Reinventing India in the 1990s. Part Three: The Reinvention of India. Chapter 7: The Dialectics of Reform: the State and Economic Liberalization. Chapter 8: The Guilty men? Militant Hinduism and the Politics of Anti-Secularism. Chapter 9: Transfers of Power? Subaltern Politics, Sites of Empowerment and the Reshaping of India's Democracy. Chapter 10: Conclusion. Notes. References. Index

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Book SynopsisUntil the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of authoritarian regimes from military administrations to one--party dictatorships.Trade Review'The 'third wave' of democratisation of the last 25 years has served to universalise the concerns of political scientists about democracy and the conditions which sustain and consolidate it. Jeff Haynes has written a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to these questions, drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches and comparative studies. The book will be of great value to lecturers and students alike working in this field.' Adrian Leftwich, University of York "Democracy in the Developing World is impressive in the breadth of its scope and the depth of its theoretical arguments and empirical analysis. The author offers a thoughtful and provocative theory of democratic consolidation, testing it against a rich array of case studies drawn from the developing world. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the comparative study of the developing world or the dynamics of democratization." Mehran Kamrava, California State University "The text is methodically organised and Haynes' expression is uniformly clear." Asian Studies Review "Haynes' book is very well structured and argued...he covers an impressive range of empirical material as well as theoretical literature." Lard Svasand, DemocratizationTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Third Wave of Democracy. Introduction. The third wave of democracy and its ramifications. Forms of authoritarian rule. Forms of democracy. Types of democratic regime. Overall conclusions. Chapter 2: Democratic Transitions and Structured Contingency. Democratic transitions in comparative perspective. Characteristics of democratic transitions. Structured contingency. Overall conclusions. Chapter 3: Explaining Democratic Consolidation. What is democratic consolidation?. Democratic consolidation: political, economic and international dimensions. Theoretical perspectives and hypotheses on democratic consolidation. Chapter 4: Latin America. Introduction. Structural impediments to democracy in Latin America. Democratic consolidation in Latin America. Case studies: Mexico and Venezuela. Overall conclusions. Chapter 5: East and South East Asia. Introduction. Structural impediments to democracy in East and South East Asia. Democratic consolidation in East and South East Asia. Case studies: South Korea and the Philippines. Overall conclusions. Chapter 6: South Asia. Introduction. Structural impediments to democracy in South Asia. Democratic consolidation in South Asia. Case studies: India and Pakistan. Overall conclusions. Chapter 7: Africa. Introduction. Structural impediments to democracy in Africa. Democratic consolidation in Africa. Case studies: South Africa and Ghana. Overall conclusions. Chapter 8: The Middle East. Introduction. Structural impediments to democracy in the Middle East. Democratization in the Middle East. Case studies: Kuwait and Turkey. Overall conclusions. Chapter 9: Conclusions. Structured contingency and democracy. Democratic consolidation in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The future. Appendix: The Freedom House Survey and Organization. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisThis concise and timely book, written by one of the worlda s leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead. * A concise and timely book about China and its future, which argues that the country it at a crossroads in its development.Trade Review"In this concise work, Peter Nolan provides a compelling and provocative assessment of China’s developmental challenge. As Nolan shows, it is not just China, but indeed the whole world, that stands at the crossroads. New rules, new technologies and a new global distribution of power have all called into question traditional answers to the problem of underdevelopment. China, to a greater degree perhaps than any other nation, has the potential to uncover a new path toward modernity. As Nolan points out, the consequences of its doing so, breathtaking as they are, would easily be dwarfed by the catastrophe of its failing to do so." Edward Steinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Peter Nolan has produced a bold, readable and fast-paced work which asks large and important questions. He begins with a brilliant sketch of post-Mao China's enormous achievements and extraordinary challenges. After presenting the path of neo-liberalism as no solution for China, Nolan powerfully depicts the lasting lessons of the unique and glorious successes that were China's in the ages before the rise of Europe. He concludes with an innovative and insightful argument that, properly understood, the way ahead for China lies in synthesizing and building on the best in ethical thinking and economic analysis shared by Confucius and Adam Smith. Nolan has produced a mind-expanding tour de force." Edward Friedman, University of Winsconsin "This is an important book written in the tradition of The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Rare in the political economy literature, it is simultaneously sweeping and detailed, rigorous and moving." Lin Chun, Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics "This is a very readable book, full of interesting historical information on China, extensive literature refrences to works by Confucius, Marco Polo and Adam Smith (to mention but a few) and wise comments on the direction China should take at this critical juncture." Piiter Bottelier, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Prologue. 1. The Challenges to China’s Economic and Political Stability: Can China Build a Sustainable and Civilized Modern Economy?. 2. China at the Crossroads: Which Directions?. 3. China at the Crossroads: 'Use the Past to Serve the Present' (Gu Wei Jin Yong). Conclusion. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis concise and timely book, written by one of the worlda s leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead.Trade Review"In this concise work, Peter Nolan provides a compelling and provocative assessment of China’s developmental challenge. As Nolan shows, it is not just China, but indeed the whole world, that stands at the crossroads. New rules, new technologies and a new global distribution of power have all called into question traditional answers to the problem of underdevelopment. China, to a greater degree perhaps than any other nation, has the potential to uncover a new path toward modernity. As Nolan points out, the consequences of its doing so, breathtaking as they are, would easily be dwarfed by the catastrophe of its failing to do so." Edward Steinfeld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Peter Nolan has produced a bold, readable and fast-paced work which asks large and important questions. He begins with a brilliant sketch of post-Mao China's enormous achievements and extraordinary challenges. After presenting the path of neo-liberalism as no solution for China, Nolan powerfully depicts the lasting lessons of the unique and glorious successes that were China's in the ages before the rise of Europe. He concludes with an innovative and insightful argument that, properly understood, the way ahead for China lies in synthesizing and building on the best in ethical thinking and economic analysis shared by Confucius and Adam Smith. Nolan has produced a mind-expanding tour de force." Edward Friedman, University of Winsconsin "This is an important book written in the tradition of The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Rare in the political economy literature, it is simultaneously sweeping and detailed, rigorous and moving." Lin Chun, Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics "This is a very readable book, full of interesting historical information on China, extensive literature refrences to works by Confucius, Marco Polo and Adam Smith (to mention but a few) and wise comments on the direction China should take at this critical juncture." Piiter Bottelier, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Prologue. 1. The Challenges to China’s Economic and Political Stability: Can China Build a Sustainable and Civilized Modern Economy?. 2. China at the Crossroads: Which Directions?. 3. China at the Crossroads: 'Use the Past to Serve the Present' (Gu Wei Jin Yong). Conclusion. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisA group of academics and practitioners in urban planning and development present an array of essays, primarily focused on Pacific Rim cities, that analyze successful policies and programmes in urban development and explain why they have worked. These essays identify a number of key themes of change that are leading to innovation in strategic planning and management of urban regions/cities in the context of globalization, economic restructuring, social change, and the changing interface between government, the private sector, and the community sectors. These themes include, among others: electronic commerce and its impact on urban development, community involvement in planning, historical preservation, strategies for central city growth and revival, private sector versus government leadership in planning, creation of new cities from scratch contrasted with reinventing existing cities, and tools for urban planning and management. This should be a useful tool to all those actively involveTable of ContentsInternational Urban Settings: Innovations in Planning Approaches (J.F. Williams, R.J. Stimson). Part I: City and Regional Planning Strategies. Planning for a vibrant central city: the case of Nayoya, Japan (A.J. Jacobs). An economic development strategy for Cairns (B. Roberts, J. Dean). 'Model Singapore': crossing urban boundaries (V. Savage, C.P. Pow). The Long Beach story: a California city, repositions itself (R.A. Watson, M. Perez). Shenzben: the pioneer city in China's economic transition (M.Y. Wang et al.). Criteria for urban development processes: managing the virtual organization (E.D.F. Wyeth). Part II: Participation, Partnerships, and Renewal. Against harbor reclamation in Hong Kong: lesson of success (C. Wing Ho). A partnership approach to urban renewal in Brisbane (T. Reddacliff, R.J. Stimson). Railways and reurbanisation in Perth: case studies of success in urban public policy (P. Newman). Kanazawa: creating a livable city through historic preservation (A. Tani et al.). Continuity and change in Macau's historic landscape during a period of transition (B. Taylor). Part III: Special Events and New Technologies. World's fairs and urban development: Lisbon and EXP098 (M.L Wilson, L. Huntoon). Planning issues and the new generation technology economy: comparative regional analysis and the case of the U.S. national capital region (R.R. Stough, R. Kulkarni). Electronic commerce: planning for successful urban and regional development (R.G. Fletcher et al.).

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Book SynopsisIn this ambitious book Eva Bellin examines the dynamics of democratization in late-developing countries where the process has stalled. Bellin focuses on the pivotal role of social forces and particularly the reluctance of capital and labor to champion democratic transition, contrary to the expectations of political economists versed in earlier transitions. Bellin argues that the special conditions of late development, most notably the political paradoxes created by state sponsorship, fatally limit class commitment to democracy. In many developing countries, she contends, those who are empowered by capitalist industrialization become the allies of authoritarianism rather than the agents of democratic reform.Bellin generates her propositions from close study of a singular case of stalled democracy: Tunisia. Capital and labor''s complicity in authoritarian relapse in that country poses a puzzle. The author''s explanation of that case is made more general through comparison with Trade ReviewBellin's explicitly comparative, cross-national framework offers readily generalizable findings. * Perspectives on Politics *In a detailed study of Tunisia, Bellin finds that some governmental development schemes that explicitly encourage the private sector can better enable private capital and labor to defend their interests.... It contributes to our understanding of the relationship between development and democratization throughout the world. * Foreign Affairs *This is a smart, elegantly written book rich in empirical detail and theoretical argument. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Genesis of the Private Sector in Tunisia: The Logic of State Sponsorship2. The Developmental Paradox: Capital's Emergent Power and Autonomy3. A Checkered Alliance: State Sponsorship of Labor4. Influence under Constraint: The Trajectory of Labor's Power and Autonomy5. Capital and Labor: Agents of Democratization?6. Stalled Democracy in Comparative PerspectiveAppendix 1: Comparative Wage Rates in Forty-one Countries, 1990Appendix 2: Number of Strikes in Tunisia, 1970–1994Appendix 3: Organizational Structure of the Union Générale de Travailleurs TunisiensAppendix 4: Membership Numbers in the Union Générale de Travailleurs TunisiensNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast AsiaIndonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnamthat the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy decisions and form the basis for broad orientations of alignment, opposition, or nonalignment. Such foundational beliefs, however, do not simply reflect objective facts and reasoning processes. Hamilton-Hart argues that they are driven by both interestsin this case the political and economic interests of ruling groups in Southeast Asiaand illusions.Hamilton-Hart shows how the information landscape and standards of professional expertise within the foreign policy communities of Southeast Asia shape beliefs about the United States. These opinions frequently rest on deeply biased uTrade ReviewHard Interests is theoretically innovative and genuinely interdisciplinary. The approach taken in the case studies 'owes more to historiography and anthropology than political science' (p. 196). While the territory covered is broad and diverse, the analysis is careful and reflective.... Hard Interests is a provocative and refreshing read, asking a big, important question that is curiously absent from the regional security literature. -- David Capie * Contemporary Southeast Asia *Hamilton-Hart raises a fascinating, overlooked question: Why is the United States widely viewed as a benign power in Southeast Asia, its presence welcomed rather than feared despite the many violent, selfish, and unwise things it has done over the years?... Her core answer to the puzzle is the overlap of local elite interests with American anticommunism during the Cold War.... For Southeast Asian elites—although not for labor movements or insugent groups—the U.S. presence has in fact been largely beneficial. -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *In this important and well-written study of Southeast Asian attitudes to American power since the end of World War II, Natasha Hamilton-Hart examines 'foreign policy beliefs' in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.... Although she writes in part for a specialist audience of foreign policy and political science scholars... the book will be of general interest to historians of Southeast Asia and useful in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. -- Tony Day * Pacific Affairs *Natasha Hamilton-Hart offers a provocative book that affirms and challenges the status of the United States in Southeast Asia. It affirms by detailing broadly held elite conceptualizations of the stabilizing role of the United States in Southeast Asia. But it also challenges by questioning the foundations of those beliefs—especially the assumption that the geopolitical justifications, domestic benefits, and 'national interests' associated with the United States are uncontroversial and clear.... Hamilton-Hart’s argument goes beyond familiar arguments about the utilitarian relationship between domestic regime interests and foreign policy alignments... she has given students, scholars, and practitioners of Southeast Asian comparative political economy, foreign policy, and international relations much food for thought. -- Alice Ba * Political Science Quarterly *This book succeeds in analyzing why the United States is either not a strategic threat or less dangerous than any alternative power from the perspectives of six Southeast Asian countries....Hard Interests, Soft Illusions is a well-researched book which is a must-read for scholars, activists, and students in the field of international relations and Southeast Asia. -- Kai Chen * Journal of American East Asian Relations *This fascinating book addresses important questions and offers thought-provoking answers that challenge current directions of debate on the foundations of American primacy, the origins of alignment, and the making of soft power.... Hard Interests, Soft Illusions presents a stimulating and important contribution not only to the study of Southeast Asia's international relations and the foundations of American primacy but also to the debate over the origins of alignment and the workings of soft power. -- Alexander L. Vuving * Asian Politics and Policy *Table of Contents1. Beliefs about American Hegemony in Southeast Asia 2. Behind Beliefs: Hard Interests, Soft Illusions 3. The Politics and Economics of Interests 4. History Lessons 5. Professional Expertise 6. Regime Interests, Beliefs, and KnowledgeAppendix: Interviews References Index

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