Development studies Books

Book SynopsisSophie Bessis tells the story of the West‘s relationship with the world it came to dominate - from the conquest of the Americas, through the slave trade and the Scramble for Africa, the White Man‘s burden, Manifest Destiny and the growth of scientific racism, to decolonisation, the ideology of development and structural adjustment. Western Supremacy is the history of colonial and developmentalist thought. Starting with the Enlightenment idea of universality it traces how this facilitated a notion of the West rooted in a Hellenic inheritance systematically shorn of Egyptian or Arab influences. Though the hierarchy of races has now given way to the hierarchy of development, Bessis argues that developmentalism is the new incarnation of the West‘s paradoxical aspiration to lead the world into universalism whilst maintaining its own supremacy. An extraordinary tour-de-force which will fascinate everybody who has an interest in globalization, development and the history of ideas.Trade Review'An extraordinary work of intellectual history, beautifully written, raising the most profound questions about that sacred cow, Western Civilization. I hope her book will be widely read.' Howard Zinn 'A complex and original picture of international relations.' Le Monde des Livres 'The author‘s deep understanding of the societies of the South helps her avoid facile judgements.' Alternatives Economiques 'A particularly stimulating work, which traces the evolution of the modern West from its renaissance roots to its most recent avatar.' Télérama 'This book glows with lucid anger - and impatience with the confusions offered us not only by the proponents of Western supremacy but by many of its supposed opponents.' Immanuel WallersteinTable of Contents Forword to the English edition Introduction Part I: The Formation of a Culture 1. The West Is Born 2. Light and Shadow of the Enlightenment 3. The Roots of a Conviction 4. Continuity beneath Wrenching Changes 5. The Backlash Part II: The Way of the World 6. The Great Post-Colonial Illusion 7. The New Basis of Hegemony 8. The Privileges of Power 9. Beginning of the End? Part III: The Two Sides of the Mirror 10. The New Look of Universality 11. The Same and the Others 12. On the Other Side of the Mirror Conclusion

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Book SynopsisRecent years have witnessed a veritable epidemic of financial crises - from Mexico, through South East Asia, Russia, Brazil and now Argentina. The rich industrial countries, led by the United States, have had to respond. This book examines the G7‘s attempts over the past decade to re-establish rules and a degree of order in the world financial system through the creation of the Financial Stability Forum and the G20, which they are calling the New International Financial Architecture. Susanne Soederberg asks: · Why has the New International Financial Architecture emerged? · At whose initiative? · What does it involve? · What are the underlying power relations? · Who is benefiting? · Will it really work? The author argues, however, that this tinkering with the capitalist system will not achieve either sustained economic growth or stability in financial markets, let alone enhance the capability of developing countries to tackle the problems of mass poverty and social injustice.Trade Review'Full of facts and persuasive arguments, Susanne Soederberg's book deconstructs the 'commonsense' understanding of the new international financial architecture that the United States has imposed on the world over the last twenty years.'Giovanni Arrighi, author of The Long Twentieth Century ' I highly recommend the analysis of this book to all those who are struggling for another pattern of globalization based on social and international justice.'Samir Amin 'This book is an invaluable resource to international activists who are struggling to be architects of a better future for humanity, and who know that the world must change profoundly if it is to change at all.'Molly Kane, Inter ParesTable of Contents 1. Transcending the 'Common Sense' of the New International Financial Architecture 2. The Mexican Peso Crisis and the Foundations of the New International Financial Architecture 3. The New International Financial Architecture: A New Procrustean Bed for the South? 4. Unravelling Washington's Judgement Calls: The Cases of the Chilean and Malaysian Capital Controls 5. Deconstructing the New International Standard of Corporate Governance: An Emerging Disciplinary Strategy for the South? 6. Linkages between the New International Financial Architecture and the Emerging Development Architecture: The Case of the Monterrey Consensus

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Book SynopsisThe development industry has been criticized recently from very diverse quarters. This book is a nuanced and original investigation of Northern donor agency personnel as they deliver aid in Tanzania. The author explores in particular how donor identities are manifested in the practices of development aid, and how calls for equal partnership between North and South are often very different in practice. She demonstrates the conflicts and tensions in the development aid process. These reflect both the longstanding critique of the Eurocentric nature of development, and discourse that still assumes images of the superior, initiating, efficient 'donor' as opposed to the inadequate, passive, unreliable 'partner' or recipient. This book will be useful to students seeking an introduction to postcolonial studies and the ways in which it can throw light on contemporary social realities, and to scholars interested in the ethnographic realities of aid delivery.Trade Review'On the basis of an excellent analysis of the Nordic intervention in East Africa, Maria Eriksson Baaz takes us into the compexity of a difficult dialogue between aid to development and politics of identities. This is a remarkable study that will serve as a firm and well thought out introduction to postcolonial studies in general.'V. Y. Mudimbe'The post-colonial discourse has been somewhat lacking in empirixal substance. This is, therefore, a much welcomes and fascinating book on the construction of identity in the development industry.'Bjorn Hettne'Development theorists are beginning to acknowledge that aid workers reproduce and thrive on postcolonial representations of identity. The African "other" is sometimes seen through a romantic lens, more often a derogatory one: passive, corrupt and dangerous. Eriksson contributes to this emerging body of work by exposing and contextualising such racist assumptions.'Emma Crewe, University of Warwick'The Paternalism of Partnership is an important contribution to the development literature. The development industry is no stranger to criticism. Recent critiques have drawn on post-colonial approaches for their attack on the Euro-centric nature of much development policy and praxis, but few have explored detailed case studies. Eriksson moves the analysis to another level, examining the discourses, identities and politics of Nordic donor agents in Tanzania. Her grounded, in-depth analysis demonstrates the exciting potential of post-colonial approaches, both for illuminating the complexities of grassroots aid delivery and for understanding the impact of global development discourses policy and praxis. This book is a landmark study that will attract attention from students and scholars.'Jane Parpart, Lester B. Pearson chair in international development studies at Dalhousie University, CanadaTable of Contents Preface 1. Identity and development aid 2. 'The white man's burden' and other stories 3. Situating identity in the development aid context 4. The omniscient self and the backward, passive and unreliable partner 5. The equal partner and politics of desire 6. Concluding remarks

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Book SynopsisRural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This volume brings together for the first time across three continents - Africa, Latin America and Asia - an intellectually consistent set of original investigations into this new generation of rural social movements. These country studies seek to identify their social composition, strategies, tactics, and ideologies; to assess their relations with other social actors, including political parties, urban social movements, and international aid agencies and other institutions; and to examine their most common tactic, the land occupation, its origins, pace and patterns, as well as the responses of governments and landowners. At a more fundamental level, this volume explores the ways in which two decades of neoliberal policy - including new land tenure arrangements intended to hasten the commodification of land, and new land uses linked to global markets -- have undermined the social reproduction of the rural labour force and created the conditions for popular resistance. The volume demonstrates the longer-term potential impact of these movements. In economic terms, they raise the possibility of tackling immiseration by means of the redistribution of land and the reorganisation of production on a more efficient and socially responsible basis. And in political terms, breaking the power of landowners and transnational capital with interests in land could ultimately open the way to an alternative pattern of capital accumulation and development.Trade Review'This is a very important book which rows against the current. According to the dominant liberal paradigm, capitalist expansion has already abrogated (or is abrogating) the agrarian question, organising the transfer of labour to urban activities and modernising the rural sector, such that land reform programmes have become obsolete. The cases precisely studied in the book, covering Africa, Asia and Latin America, show that actually it is not so. On the contrary, imperialism appears thoroughly unable to resolve the agrarian question and to respond to the challenge of growing social dislocation. That structural failure is one of the major sources of growing poverty, as well as progressive political mobilisation in the countryside.'Samir Amin, director, Third World Forum, Dakar'This remarkable book is a much welcome contribution to our understanding of the nature and dilemmas posed by recent capitalist development in rural areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The essays collected in this volume combine in-depth analyses of the political dynamics unleashed in the countryside by a host of very powerful social movements with a careful survey of the cleavages and ruptures produced by the harsh introduction of neoliberal policies. The reader will gain access to a wider and deeper understanding of all the complexities of the agrarian question under the impact of neoliberal globalisation from an analytical perspective in which sound social science research fruitfully combines with the impassioned visions of rural activism.'Atilio Boron, executive secretary of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires'This book is a good read for anyone interested in understanding how rural social movements are organizing, evolving, and changing in the current global neo-liberal context.'Isabella Kenfield, University of CaliforniaTable of Contents Introduction - Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros 1. The Resurgence of Rural Movements under Neoliberalism - Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros Part I: Africa 2. Rural Land and Land Conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa - Henry Bernstein 3. Night Harvesters, Forest Hoods and Saboteurs: Struggles over Land Expropriation in Ghana - Kojo Sebastian Amanor 4. Land Occupations in Malawi: Challenging the Neoliberal Legal Order - Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo 5. Land Occupations in South Africa - Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane 6. Land Occupations and Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Towards the National Democratic Revolution - Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros Part II: Asia 7. Rural Land Struggles in Asia:Overview of Selected Contexts - Filomeno Aguilar Jnr. 8. Occupation of Land in India: Experiences and Challenges - Minar Pimple and Manpreet Sethi 9. Stretching the 'Limits' of Redistributive Reform: Lessons and Evidence from the Philippines under Neoliberalism - Salvador H. Feranil Part III: Latin America 10. The Dynamics of Land Occupations in Latin America - Henry Veltmeyer 11. The Occupation as a Form of Access to Land in Brazil: A Theoretical and Methodological Contribution - Bernardo Mançano Fernandes (translated by Malcolm K. McNee) 12. Agrarian Reform in Brazil under Neoliberalism: Evaluation and Perpsectives - Lauro Mattei 13. The Agrarian Question and Armed Struggle in Colombia - Igor Ampuero and James Brittain 14. Indian-Peasant Movements in Mexico: The Struggle for Land, Autonomy and Democracy - Armando Bartra and Gerardo Otero

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Book SynopsisThis new textbook in development planning aims to provide a comprehensive and practically relevant guide to strategic planning at postgraduate and practitioner level. The author hopes that the book will help bridge the unfortunate gap that now exists between much development planning theory and planning practice. He also promotes a more value-based, action-centred and organization-inclusive approach to development planning than is normally presented in textbooks on planning. The book explores the different concepts of development and development planning. It introduces a simple model of strategic planning, and then elaborates more complex arrangements. The author operationalizes various aspects and processes of planning, and critically analyses the tools involved, always in the context of more fundamental planning concerns. Specific topics include logical framework analysis, the use of indicators, process planning schemas, principles and tools of prioritization, and dimensions of participation and community institution building. The analysis consistently progresses from the theoretical and conceptual to the practical and specific.Trade Review'I wholeheartedly recommend it for students, practitioners and theorists of development planning and, indeed, development studies more broadly.'Hans Detlef Kammeier, AIT, Thailand 'A seminal contribution to an action-centred paradigm of planning for development.'Hellmut W. Eggers, European Commission 'A highly important and useful book.'W. M. Leelasena, Southern Province Rural Economic Advancement Project, Sri Lanka'Presents concepts and tools for planners, managers, and facilitators involved in development planning.'Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of Contents Foreword Preface 1. Development and Development Planning 2. Strategic Planning for Development 3. Diversifying Perspectives on Planning 4. Elaborating Linkages in Development Work 5. Problem Analysis 6. Means-Ends Analysis 7. Formulating Indicators of Achievements 8. Assessing and Interacting with the Environment Contextual Analysis 9. Tools Of Prioritisation 10. Community Institution Building and Participatory Planning

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Book SynopsisParticipation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community consent. In this important new volume, development and other social policy scholars and practitioners seek to rebut this simplistic conclusion, while addressing the problems of power and politics which have beset some approaches to participation. They describe and analyse new experiments in participation from a wide diversity of social contexts that show how, far from being a redundant and depoliticizing concept, participation can -- given certain conditions -- be linked to genuinely transformative processes and outcomes for marginalized communities and people. This volume is the first comprehensive attempt to evaluate the state of participatory approaches in the aftermath of the 'Tyranny' critique. It captures the recent convergence between participatory development and participatory governance, and spans the range of institutional actors involved in these approaches - the state, civil society and donor agencies. It places participatory interventions in a political context, and links them directly to issues of popular agency. The volume embeds participation within contemporary advances in development theory and proposes theoretical and practical ways forward for relocating participation as a genuinely transformative approach. Scholars and practitioners alike, and from a diversity of disciplines and community and development agencies, are likely to find this volume a theoretically illuminating and practically useful source of ideas about how participation can achieve concrete liberatory outcomes.Table of Contents Part I: From Tyranny to Transformation? 1. Towards participation as transformation: critical themes and challenges for a post-tyranny agenda Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan 2. Towards Participatory Local Governance: Assessing the Transformative Possibilities John Gaventa 3. Rules of Thumb for Participatory Change Agents Bill Cooke Part II: Rethinking participation 4. Relocating Participation within a Radical Politics of Development: Critical Modernism and Citizenship Giles Mohan and Sam Hickey 5 Spaces for transformation? Reflections on issues of power and difference in participation in development Andrea Cornwall 6. Towards a Repoliticisation of Participatory Development: Political Capabilities and Spaces of Empowerment Glyn Williams Part III: Participation as popular agency: reconnecting with underlying processes of development 7. Participation, resistance and problems with the 'local' in Peru: towards a new political contract? Susan Vincent 8. The 'Transformative' Unfolding of 'Tyrannical' Participation: The Corv‚e Tradition and Ongoing Local Politics in Western Nepal Katsuhiko Masaki 9. Morality, Citizenship and Participatory Development in an Indigenous Development Association: the case of GPSDO and the Sebat bet Gurage of Ethiopia Leroi Henry Part IV: Realising transformative participation in practice: state and civil responses 10. Relocating participation within a radical politics of development: insights from political action and practice Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan 11. Securing voice and transforming practice in local government: The role of federating in grassroots development Diana Mitlin 12. Participatory Municipal Development Plans in Brazil: Divergent Partners Constructing Common Futures Glauco Regis Florisbelo 13. Confrontations with power: Moving beyond 'the tyranny of safety' in participation Ute Kelly 14. Failing Forward: going beyond PRA and imposed forms of participation Giles Mohan and Mark Waddington Part V: Donors and participation: caught between tyranny and transformation? 15 Participation in Poverty Reduction Strategies: Democracy Strengthened or Democracy Undermined? David Brown 16. Beyond the technical fix? Participation in donor approaches to rights-based development Jeremy Holland, Mary Ann Brocklesby and Charles Abugre Part VI: Broader perspectives on from tyranny to transformation 17. The social embeddedness of agency and decision-making Frances Cleaver 18. Theorizing participation and institutional change: ethnography and political economy Anthony Bebbington

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Book SynopsisSamir Amin, one of the twentieth century's leading radical intellectuals, has lived his personal and political life at the intersection of various cultures and international progressive currents - from Egypt to France to West Africa, from communism to national-liberation socialism, Maoism and finally a mature anti-imperialism. His memoirs are not only a fascinating personal narrative but a penetrating historical-political analysis, as well as an introduction to his most important theoretical contributions. They offer a unique vantage point for observing the operations of global capitalism and the evolution, crises and potentialities of radical movements, especially in the third world. This book will be invaluable not only to readers interested in Amin's profoundly influential work or in the history of the global left but to anyone concerned with today's worldwide struggles against capitalist globalization.Trade Review'This world-class economist is a serious Nobel Prize contender.' Economic Development and Cultural Change 'Samir Amin needs no introduction...he always remains apposite and, to the mind of this particular left-thinking academic, accurate, prescient, and to the point.' John Saul, African Studies ReviewTable of Contents 1. Childhood 2. A Student in Paris 3. Cairo 1957-1960 4. Parisian Interlude, January-September 1960 5. Bamako 1960-1963 6. Professor of Political Economy 1963-1970 7. The Political Context 1960-1998 8. Director of the Institute for Economic Planning and Development (IDEP) 1970-1980 9. The Third World Forum 10. Towards a Common Front of the World's Peoples?

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Book SynopsisInternational aid is about much more than money. The UN Millennium Development Goals and major events like Live 8 have focused the world spotlight on issues of poverty relief and aid like never before, but have not concentrated on the quality of relationships that can make aid succeed or fail. This book, authored by an internationally renowned group of aid practitioners, reveals the contradictions and challenges involved in forging these relationships. International development organizations combine the unbridled play of power and arrogant amnesia with serious and innovative efforts to create a more democratic world, to support transformative learning and to strengthen accountability. The book explores recent attempts from within aid agencies to go against the current flow of top-down results based management by learning how to build lasting partnerships that transfer power to those at the receiving end of aid. More than just a critique, the authors offer a practical framework for understanding relationships in the international aid system and look at the relevance of organizational learning theory, which is widely used in business.Table of ContentsIntroduction * Part I Framing the Issues * Learning for Development * Making Relationships Matter for Aid Bureaucracies * Part II Reflective Practice * Learning from People Living in Poverty: Learning from Immersions * Making Connections: Learning about Participation in a Large Aid Bureaucracy * Learning about Relationships in Development * Part III Organizational Learning through Value-based Relationships: Possibilities and Challenges * Supporting Rights and Nurturing Networks: The Case of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in Peru * Bringing Systems into Line with Values: The Practice of the Accountability, Learning and Planning System (ALPS) * Money Matters in Aid Relationships

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Book SynopsisIt is widely accepted that sustainability has an inescapable social component, but companies find it very hard to understand and measure their social impacts. Why is this? This book, by noted CSR practitioner, consultant and educator Adrian Henriques, provides the first coherent approach to identifying, understanding, measuring and accounting for corporate social impact. Beginning with an analysis of the nature of corporate social impact and the role of the stakeholder, the complex relationship of social impact to economic and environmental impacts is explored. This naturally leads to an examination of the contribution which social impact makes to business practice, profitability and ultimately to global sustainability. The second part of the book assesses the theory and practise of some of the critical measures of social impact which have been developed to date. This includes Social Return on Investment (SROI), local economic impact (LM3) and social capital as well as more established techniques. . It also explores new approaches such as 'social footprinting'. This is rounded out by presentation of a social accounting framework and how this can operate in parallel to standard financial accounting procedures. This volume provides a clear, digestible and practical roadmap for companies wishing to take responsibility for their role in society and improve their internal and external performance.Trade Review'Adrian Henriques has done it again ... Clear and well-written, the text will stimulate and challenge practitioners, students, policy-makers and academics.' Professor R.H. Gray, Director of The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, School of Management, The Gateway University of St Andrews 'There may be a temptation to blame the corporate sector for many of the world's problems, but ultimately it's a split of responsibility between the life style choices of individual consumers, the state and the corporation. To address this subject Adrian Henriques reviews an array of methods to try and measure the social outcome of individual companies in an attempt to answer the frequently asked question 'What's a company for?'' Dr Chris Tuppen, BT Director of Sustainable Development 'In developing policy and standards for business activity, social impact has long been the disadvantaged sibling of environmental and economic impacts of companies. Henriques goes a long way toward rectifying this disparity by providing rich and varied perspectives on the definition, measurement and assessment of the social footprint of commercial activity Along the way, he takes us well beyond the boundaries of conventional CSR, raises fundamental questions about the purpose of the corporation, and challenges both companies and stakeholders to rethink their interdependency in new and provocative ways.' Allen L. White, Co-Founder, Global Reporting Initiative; Senior Fellow, Tellus Institute 'Adrian Henriques has done it again. He has taken a refreshingly novel angle on an important issue in need of urgent attention. This much-needed attempt to move on from much of the staleness in the CSR debate is broad and wide-ranging. Clear and well-written, the text will stimulate and challenge practitioners, students, policy-makers and academics. My guess is that my personal reaction of positive response and outraged disagreement in roughly equal measure will be a fairly common one: in this regard it succeeds masterfully in advancing this debate in a challenging manner.' Professor R.H. Gray, Director of The Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, School of Management, The Gateway University of St Andrews 'As we cannot stretch the surface of the planet, we cannot extend time. Space and time are the ultimate physical ingredients to anything we do. Measuring, therefore, our time footprint (or social footprint) becomes a key ingredient for any sustainability assessment, and I am thrilled that Adrian Henriques is exploring the time dimension as a metric for social impact.' Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint Network PresidentTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Social Purpose of Companies 3. Complicity and the Sexual Exploitation of Children - a case study 4. Sustainability's Social Side 5. Thinking like a Stakeholder 6. The Voice of the Stakeholder 7. Sociological Impacts 8. Signs of Impact 9. Reporting Social Impact 10. Measuring Economic Impact 11. Investing in Impact 12. Social Footprint 13. Accounting for Social Impact 14. The Elusiveness of the Social Revisited Appendix I - Market Research Appendix II - Analysis of GRI Social Indicators Appendix III - SROI Case Study Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMany countries have a rich tradition of domestic travel and holidaying which not only predates but exceeds mass international travel. This is particularly the case in Asia where recent economic prosperity and trends in globalization have not merely spurred, but continue to shape traditions in domestic tourism. This book is the first to address specifically the continuities and changes in domestic tourism in Asia. It explores the ethos of domestic travel and holiday-making in order to understand the distinctive common strands that underlie conventional and contemporary tourism practices, against the local and global backdrop. A considerable range of countries is covered in the case studies, including those with patrimonial histories, namely China and India, the economically developed nation-state of Japan and the microstates of Taiwan, Singapore, Macao and Hong Kong, besides the coastal countries of Malaysia, Philippines, Laos and Vietnam, as well as the land-locked countries of Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. The book presents some of the many interfaces of Asian cultural and natural heritages with tourism, while giving due considerations to today's political and economic realities.Table of ContentsForeword - Linda K. Richter Editor's Preface 1. Domestic Tourism: Searching for an Asianic Perspective Part I: Aspects of Asian Domestic Tourism: Endemic 2. Zen and the Art of Tourism Maintenance: A Meditaion on So-called Prototourism in VIietnam 3. Cultural Solutions to Ecological Problems in Contemporary Japan: Heritage Tourism in Asuke 4. Pilgrim Culture of t rth? in India: Enculturation of New-age Movements within Age-old Rituals 5. From Community to Holiday Camps: The Emergence of Tourist Economy in Mongolia Part II: Bricolage 6. 'Domestic' Tourism and its Discontents: Han Tourists in Tibetan Areas of the Pr China's 'Little Tibet' 7. Year Zero!: Erasing to Resurrect Domestic Tourism in Cambodia 8. Kyrgyz Tourism at Lake Issyk-Kul - Legacies of Pre-Communist and Soviet Regimes 9. Indigenous People and Domestic Visitors of Taiwan 10. O We Are Not 'Eco-Tourist': Hill-Walking and Eco-Tourism in Hong Kong 11. Crafting Filipino Leisure: Tourism Programs in the Philippines 12. Awaiting Attention: Profiling Domestic Tourism Sector in Sri Lanka Part III: Embedded 13. Film-Induced Domestic Tourism In Singapore: The Case of 'Krrish' 14. Cultivating Domestic Tourism with Global Advantage: Malaysia and Singapore Compared 15. Holiday Making and Leisure Space of Macao People Part IV: The Epilogue 16. Domestic Tourism in Asia: Contexts and Directions Appendices Index

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Book SynopsisThere is now considerable unanimity that international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization (WTO), Bretton Woods Institutions and the international economic architecture need to be reformed in order to achieve greater democratic governance to tackle the myriad of challenges facing the world. Written by leading members of the international community under the auspices of the World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU, this book provides a diverse and rich resource on all aspects of the reform of international organizations. The book introduces the reader to the main organizations of the international multilateral system, presents proposals for reform and provides an analysis of the political action required to achieve global democratic governance. Trade Review'Neither 'business as usual' nor the 'status quo ante' are acceptable options. This UBUNTU book makes an important contribution to informing the increasingly urgent debate around creating the conditions for a much more just, democratic and sustainable world.' Jomo Kwame Sundaram, UN Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development. 'Reforming international institutions is an idea whose time has come, and the UBUNTU Forum is well placed to keep the momentum going. Its approach is inclusive, non-confrontational, and most likely to convince political leaders, senior officials from international organizations and civil society activists to work together to achieve a common goal: a safer, healthier, better world, for all to enjoy and leave to their children.' C cile Molinier, Director, UNDP Office in Geneva. 'This incredible ensemble of influential global citizens tells us how to fix our broken or obsolete institutions and systems...Certainly worth a read for any outraged or aspiring good global citizen.' Ramesh Singh, Chief Executive, ActionAid International. '...provides a comprehensive overview of the current reform discussions and their history, as well as an array of suggestions.' Christoph Schwarte, Staff Lawyer, Foundation for International Environmental Law and DevelopmentTable of ContentsPart A. The World Campaign: Context and stages 1. By way of introduction: The World Forum of Civil Society Networks - UBUNTU, Democratic Worldwide Governance and the World Campaign for In-Depth Reform of the System of International Institutions 2. The World Campaign for In-Depth Reform of the System of International Institutions Part B. Analysis 3. Analysis of the evolution of the proposals for the Reform of the System of International Institutions 4. World Democratic Governance 5. The 2006 war in Lebanon and the role of the United Nations Part C. The Proposals - In General 6. Proposals for the Reform of the System of International Institutions. Future Scenarios 7. Proposals for the Reform of the System of International Institutions to make another world possible - The London Declaration' 8. Reforming the UN and other International Institutions Part D. The Proposals - Arranged by Themes 9. Concerning two international conferences, two different yet complementary momentums for progress along the analytical and propositive path towards the in-depth reform of our international institutions 10. Proposals for a new architecture for the system of international institutions for democratic worldwide governance 11. Proposals on reforming the General Assembly of the UN and the World Parliament 12. Proposals on institutional reforms for peace, disarmament, security for people, global justice and human rights 13. Proposals on institutional reforms for world social, environmental and economic wellbeing; or the dialectics of development, the environment, finance, and trade 14. An 'Open Letter to the new Secretary-General of the UN: Mr Ban Ki-moon'1 and the three broad issues in a process of in-depth reform of the system of international institutions 15. A multi-actor socio-political, global movement for global democratic governance

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Book SynopsisDevelopment practice is full of examples of the importance of religion in the lives of people in developing countries. However, religion has largely remained unexplored in development studies. This timely new book aims to fill that gap. The authors expertly review how religion has been treated in the evolution of development thought, how it has been conceptualised in the social sciences, and highlights the major deficiencies of the assumption of secularism. The book argues that development theory and practice needs to rewrite its dominant script regarding its treatment of religion, a script which has so far been heavily inscribed in the secular tradition. It puts forward an understanding of religions as traditions: that religions rest on central thesis and teachings which never cease to be re-interpreted in the light of the social, political and historical context. In addition to providing a conceptual framework for analysing the role of religion in development, the book provides numerous empirical examples drawn from the Christian and Islamic religious traditions. This comprehensive new guide to this key issue is essential for students, development thinkers and practitioners who wish to understand better the role that religion plays in development processes and outcomes.Trade Review'Religion in Development reminds us of the forgotten role of religion in Development. Séverine Deneulin and Masooda Bano tell us that the usual focus of the study of Development on the nation-state is parochial. Scholarship on Development suffers from the same myopia ... Religion in Development introduces a shift in the conceptual framework that separates Development from the linear, rational idea of progress ... Religion in Development deserves to be read carefully to understand the paradoxes and irony of Development. It is lucid, creative and sensitive.' Abdul Aziz Said, American University 'This volume provides a remarkably concise and clear introduction to a new emerging field in development studies. So far development theory and practise has tended to ignore the impact of the importance of religious ideas, beliefs and practices on development. This neglect is addressed head on by Dr. Severine Deneulin in a way that makes the text appealing, accessible and very attractive to undergraduates, postgraduates and teachers interested in the subject from a variety of disciplines. Religion in Development fills an important gap in the subject area and will certain become essential reading for all those who want to find out more about the manifold interactions between religions and development.' Gurharpal Singh, University of Birmingham 'For too long in Development Studies the response to religion has been blindness or embarrassment, occasionally even hostility. In the excellent work of Severine Deneulin and Masooda Bano we now have a new basis, firmly rooted in good judgment and buttressed by the best research, for bringing religion in to the mainstream of development policy and research. Their book is an eloquent case against treating religion either as an obstacle to change or as a policy instrument, and against treating religious leadership as mere clients or project managers. They show that a coherent approach cannot consider religion in general as a homogeneous package, but also that a coherent approach must take account of the pervasiveness and variety of religious cultures and practices, and of religiously inspired politics. With its clear style and abundance of telling examples, this book will be indispensable to policymakers, practitioners and academics working in development.' David Lehmann, Cambridge University 'The intersections of international development and religion take many surprising forms; they force a reevaluation of religion's roles in society and of the very purposes of the development challenge. Severine Deneulin's book explores the intellectual roots of debates around the topic and their implications for both Christianity and Islam and for development practice.' Katherine MarshallTable of Contents Introduction 1. Addressing the Taboos 2. Religion in Development Thought 3. Religion in Debate 4. Religion in Development Practice 5. Conflicts Between Traditions 6. Dialoguing Traditions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWho really runs the global economy? Who benefits most from it? The answer is a triad of 'governance institutions' - The IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. Globalization massively increased the power of these institutions and they drastically affected the livelihoods of peoples across the world. Yet they operate undemocratically and aggressively promote a particular kind of neoliberal capitalism. Under the 'Washington Consensus' they proposed, poverty was to be ended by increasing inequality. This new edition of Unholy Trinity, completely updated and revised, argues that neoliberal global capitalism has now entered a period of crisis so severe that governance will become impossible. Huge incomes for a small number of super-rich people produced an unstable global economy, rife with speculation and structurally prone to crises. The IMF is in disgrace, the WTO can hardly meet anymore and the World Bank survives as a global philanthropist. Is this the end for the Unholy Trinity?Trade Review'Invaluable to students and activists alike, this is the essential introduction to the unelected government of the world economy.' Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums 'This new edition of the Unholy Trinity offers a timely and razor-sharp analysis of the predicament the world economy is in today and how we got there. With characteristic panache, Peet shows why neoliberal orthodoxy got it so totally wrong and details its disastrous social and economic consequences. A must read for those who wish to understand who is responsible, and what needs to be done to turn the world into a more genuinely humanising place for all.' Erik Swyngedouw, University of Manchester 'This is a terrific book...It is politically committed, theoretically sophisticated, analytically incisive, empirically rich, thoroughly engaged, and full of devastating one-liners that greatly enliven its reading.' Roger Lee, Economic Geography 'This is a great book' David Harvey, CUNY 'Unholy Trinity provides an important history lesson of how the IMF, World Bank, and WTO were twisted from their original mandates to serve the interests of corporate globalization.' John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy StudiesTable of Contents Preface Abbreviations and Acknowledgments 1. Globalism and Neoliberalism 2. Bretton Woods: Emergence of a Global Economic Regime 3. The International Monetary Fund 4. The World Bank 5. The World Trade Organization 6. Global Financial Capitalism and the Crisis of Governance Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies. Cities in Africa are still either ignored - banished to a different, other, lesser category of not-quite cities - or held up as examples of all that can go wrong with urbanism in much of the mainstream and even critical urban literature. Myers instead encourages African studies and urban studies scholars across the world to engage with the vibrancy and complexity of African cities with fresh eyes. Touching on a diverse range of cities across Africa - from Zanzibar to Nairobi, Cape Town to Mogadishu, Kinshasa to Dakar - the book uses the author's own research and a close reading of works by other scholars, writers and artists to help illuminate what is happening in and across the region's cities.Trade ReviewWith precise attention to the heterogeneous histories that have shaped African cities, the diverse aspirations, agendas, and projects these cities have embodied, and to the range of geographies at work, Myers is able to specify the ways in which African cities crucially contribute to remaking understandings about cities in general. * AbdouMaliq Simone, Goldsmiths, University of London *An audacious and inspiring work. Although engaging with, and profoundly knowledgeable of, current trends and theories in urban studies and human geography, Garth Myers nonetheless also opens up these disciplines to other, alternative visions of African cities to be found in literature and the arts. These bold gestures offer an infinitely more complex, nuanced, and above all, hopeful representation of African urban environments, which moves beyond the popular image of a continent mired in corruption and failure and towards a reading of African cityscapes as the very essence of global modernity. Anyone with an interest in Africa, or in what our cities may become, should read this book. * David Richards, University of Stirling *Gareth Myers's African Cities offers a creative and critical conversation between the growing literature on the theories and practices of urban studies and the cutting edge research exploring the ethnographies, geographies, histories as well policy discussions of cities in Africa. Myers's pays close attention to the patterns, processes, forms and functions of African cities in connection, not only to the urban economies of knowledge produced about them, but to ways in which they are inhabited and imagined by ordinary residents, politicians and urban experts. He maps astutely the (mis)location of Africa in urban studies as well as in the production of its concepts, methods, theories and approaches. African Cities provides thought-through arguments, insightful critique and challenging synthesis of both the urban and African studies literature to trace urban stories to reframe the urban studies theoretical and practical knowledge. By including lessons from the multifaceted diverse, complex and unpredictable experience of African cities and urban societies, Myers opens up new realms of inquiry and interpretation in urban studies. * Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History, Columbia University *A significant contribution to the recent scholarly writing and research on cities in Africa. Garth Myers challenges conventional theories and models that have largely imprisoned the study of cities in Africa in conceptual straightjackets that are not particularly helpful in understanding what is actually happening on the ground. By taking the 'always-moving spaces of African cosmopolitan urbanism' as his point of departure, he offers fresh insights that can enable us to rethink prevailing ideas and stereotypes about cities in Africa. This pioneering book is a must-read for anyone interested in grasping the dynamics of urbanization not only in Africa but also in the Global South more generally. * Martin J. Murray, Professor of Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Adjunct Professor, African Studies, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan *Garth Myers' work is a major and timely contribution that puts the study of African cities back on the intellectual map. His work provides a major synthesis as well as a critical reflection on prominent themes in the rapid urbanization of African cities. This books uniquely balances theory and practice in a very accessible way. This book is essential reading for planners and scholars and everyone else in between that wants to better understand contemporary urbanization in Africa. * Richard Grant, Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Studies University of Miami and Senior Research Scientist, Adjunct Professor, The Earth Institute, Columbia University *This is a fascinating book that usefully contributes to a slow growing body of knowledge in the field of the informal African city. It is an astonishing collage of knowledge, facts, figures and critical reflections on African cities nicely carved into a series of themed discussions. A must read for every scholar of urban theory with an interest in the developing world context. * Ronnie Donaldson, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. What if the Postmetropolis is Lusaka? 2. Postcolonial Cities 3. (I)n(f)ormal Cities 4. Governing Africa's Cities 5. Wounded City 6. Cosmopolitan Cities Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Arnold August explores Cuba's unique form of democracy, presenting a detailed and balanced analysis of Cuba's electoral process and the state's functioning between elections. By comparing them with practices in the U.S., Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, August shows that people's participation in politics and society is not limited to a singular, U.S.- centric understanding of democracy. Through this deft analysis, August illustrates how the process of democratization in Cuba is continually in motion and argues that a greater understanding of different political systems teaches us to not be satisfied with either blanket condemnations or idealistic political illusions.Trade ReviewThis book, a tour de force from an expert who clearly knows his field well, is one that goes out of its way to make us think about what we understand by "democracy" and how we should view new manifestations in the "Third World". Not only is its conceptual and geographical scope admirably broad, but its familiar attention to the details of political participation are excellent, and, by taking a firm stance, the author forces us to address issues which are all too often taken for granted and left unquestioned. * Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham *A trailblazing perspective. August contrasts the experiences in Cuba and some Latin American countries, where participatory democracy is taking shape, to the pretences of the U.S. model. Compulsory reading. * Claude Morin, Université de Montréal *A must-read for anybody seriously interested in Cuba and in the overall question of democracy and its practices. * Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir, Tufts University *Arnold August cuts through the common propaganda about democracy in the U.S. and the supposed lack of democracy in Cuba. Where August’s earlier work on the Cuban political system opened a window to this forbidden island, Cuba and Its Neighbours deepens our understanding of Cuba’s participatory processes and shows how they have been shaped by Cuba’s revolutionary history. * Cliff DuRand, Morgan State University, Baltimore *Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Clearing the Cobwebs Around Democracy 1. Democracy and U.S.-Centrism 2. Democracy in the U.S. 3. Exploring Democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador Part II: Cuba: Constitutions, Elections and New States (1868-1976) 4. Participation in Constitutions, Elections and a New State (1868-1952) 5. Democracy, Elections and the New State 6. The 2011-12 Communist Party Congress and Conference: Democratization and the Press Part III: Contemporary Cuba: The Test for Democratization 6. The 2011-12 Communist Party Congress and Conference: Democratization and the Press 7. Elections in Contemporary Cuba 8. The ANPP and the Municipality: Functioning Between Elections The Future of Democratization: Facing the Tests

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Book SynopsisFrom Recipients to Donors examines the emergence, or re-emergence, of a large number of nations as partners and donors in international development, from global powers such as Brazil, China and India, to Gulf states such as Saudi Arabia, to former socialist states such as Poland and Russia. The impact of these countries in international development has grown sharply, and as a result they have become a subject of intense interest and analysis. This unique book explores the range of opportunities and challenges this phenomenon presents for poorer countries and for development policy, ideology and governance. Drawing on the author’s rich original research, whilst expertly condensing published and unpublished material, From Recipients to Donors is an essential critical analysis and review for anyone interested in development, aid and international relations.Trade ReviewThe rise of China, India, Brazil and other "emerging" powers is challenging a development assistance system long dominated by wealthy industrialized countries. Emma Mawdsley's new book is the best guide yet to these changes. Equally adept with the language of theory and of practice, Mawdsley draws a smart, careful and nuanced portrait of a brave new world of donors and development partners. Powerful, well-researched and sensitive to the complex realities, this is the right book at just the right time. Anyone wanting to understand the complex new geographies of aid and development cooperation must read this book. * Professor Deborah Bräutigam, American University *Emma Mawdsley has written a rigorous, original and compelling account of the changing landscapes of aid and development cooperation. From Recipients to Donors is simply the best available account we have of these shifting geopolitical realities. * Professor Stuart Corbridge, London School of Economics *With the international aid system in a turbulent transition, Emma Mawdsley's excellent book on the so-called new donors from the South could not have come at a better time. Her comprehensive analysis enables the reader to understand the role of emerging powers as they shape the future of international development cooperation beyond a western-dominated OECD-DAC. * Thomas Fues, senior researcher and head of Training Department, German Development Institute *Emma Mawdsley provides a brilliant overview and perceptive analysis of the rise of the non-DAC donors and its implications for aid and development. This is an important and timely text. * Vicky Randall, emeritus professor, University of Essex *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Contexts: the rising powers and mainstream foreign aid 2. Histories and lineages of non-DAC aid and development cooperation 3. The (re-)emerging development partners today: institutions, recipients and flows 4. Modalities and practices: the substance of (re-)emerging development partnerships 5. Discourse, imagery and performance: constructing non-DAC development assistance 6. Institutional overtures, challenges and changes: changing development governance 7. From aid to development effectiveness and New Global Partnerships Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this revealing new book, Bøås and Dunn explore the phenomenon of 'autochthony' - literally ‘son of the soil’ - in African politics. In contemporary Africa, questions concerning origin are currently among the most crucial and contested issues in political life, directly relating to the politics of place, belonging, identity and contested citizenship. Thus, land claims and autochthony disputes are the hallmark of political crises in many places on the African continent. Examining the often complex reasons behind this recent rise of autochthony across a number of high-profile case studies - including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia, and Kenya - this is an essential book for anyone wishing to understand the impact of this crucial issue on contemporary African politics and conflicts.Trade ReviewEmpirically rich and beautifully written, this book's account of the rise of an exclusionary autochtony discourse in Africa in the legitimization of political violence is paradigm-busting. It shows how and why conventional arguments focusing on natural resources, environmental scarcity, or even ethnicity miss the mark entirely and instead how the disruptions of economic liberalization, decentralization, and political liberalization have exacerbated melancholic uncertainty and nervousness about belonging and its inextricable tie to land and citizenship rights -- with parallels throughout the world. It is a must read for anyone interested in civil war, its cycles of recurrence, the potential for civil war, and the need for change in current policies of peace-building. * Susan L. Woodward, The Graduate Center, City University of New York *This book addresses a critical and badly neglected issue in the politics of modern Africa, and makes a vital contribution to understanding the dynamics of conflict in the continent. * Christopher Clapham, Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University *Politics of Origin in Africa argues that the definition of citizenship on exclusionary terms or the activation of ethnicity and autochthony discourses are an integral component of state-making practices. Through detailed empirical studies of violent manifestations observed in Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya and the DRC, Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn decipher interactions between space and identity, politics and memory, land ownership and landlessness. The outcome is an insightful and stimulating discussion of strategies associated with situations where the redistribution of resources within the neopatrimonial state and through its big men is highly dysfunctional. * Daniel C. Bach, University of Bordeaux *In this compelling study of how identity and conflict may be linked in Africa, Bøås and Dunn provide detailed case studies of the Ivory Coast, DRC, Liberia and Kenya to show how the narrative of autochthony is deployed to create the Other, often with violent consequences. As the authors convincingly substantiate, the construction and exploitation of labels and identifications, such as autochthony, reflect a symptom, rather than a cause, of Africa's maldevelopment. * Ian Taylor, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews *Authocthony has become an important term for discussing identity politics and its relations in francophone Africa. Showing its centrality to the non-francophone countries as well, Politics of Origin in Africa reveals the inadequacy of the literature purporting resource curse on the one hand and resource scarcity on the other as the root cause for conflicts in the continent. Highlighting authocthony as "a strategy and not a fact", the authors bring the issue of local conflicts over land control and property rights to the fore, connecting them to political discourses and practices of both local and national character. This gives the book a truly refreshing, insightful and not least necessary perspective on African conflicts. * Mats Utas, The Nordic Africa Institute *The authors' compelling insights, rooted in a deep understanding of the politics of patronage, reveal how powerful forces in the global economy disrupt old patterns of stability and how the introduction of democratic elections and administrative decentralization can in fact aggravate conflict. This is an essential book both for scholars and analysts seeking to understand the new trajectories of conflicts in African countries, and the decisive shift away from top-down networks of authority to uncertain and often contentious centres of power. * William Reno, Northwestern University *Table of Contents1. Introduction: conflict, land scarcity and tales of origin 2. Autochthony, melancholy and uncertainty in contemporary African politics 3. Liberia: civil war and the 'Mandingo question' 4. Kenya: majimboism, indigenous land claims and electoral violence 5. Democratic Republic of Congo: 'dead certainty' in North Kivu 6. Côte d'Ivoire: production and the politics of belonging 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe landscape of the world economy is changing rapidly, including new and much more powerful roles for the IMF and World Bank, as well as the rapid growth of wider free trade areas in North America and Europe. Current global trading arrangements, however, involve serious obstacles for exporters from the South as well as rivalries between the major economies. This book explores how the international trading system came into existence, the ways in which commodity markers work today, and why the poor countries of the South are facing not free trade, but unfair trade. It traces the stages of the world's economic development which has resulted in a this stark imbalance between North and South, following the chain of trade from crop to shop.The book's lessons are relevant to students, policy makers, and all those interested in a world trading system built on more than market muscle and the profit motive - a system that serves the interests of ordinary people everywhere.Trade Review'A book full of originality which offers an alternative theory and an alternative programme to those currently being imposed on the weak by the strong.'Robin Murray, Institute of Development Studies, University of SussezTable of Contents Preface Part I: Unfair Trade 1. Introduction 2. The World Division of Labour in Historical Perspective 3. The Division of World Resources Between Rich and Poor 4. The World Market 5. The Role of the Market 6. The Middlemen Part II: Making Trade Fairer 7. Regulating the Market 8. Aiding the Market 9. Centrally Planned Trade 10. A Parallel Trading System 11. Alternative Trade: In and Against the Market 12. What Can be Done Now? Appendix: Alternative Trading Organisations Glossary of Acronyms and Technical Trade Terms Index

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Book SynopsisThis book, now available in English for the first time, has become a classic since it was first published in 1982. Translated into five languages, it has had an extraordinary influence on grassroots development projects.The author relates two of his own experiences in 'barefoot economics', interspersing these moving and insightful accounts with reflections on development projects and experts, pioneering criticism of of orthodox development economics, and a new vision of development in which the poor must learn to circumvent the national economic system.Trade Review'A masterpiece. The three "theoretical interludes" are remarkable for their insight, originality and profundity.'John Papworth, The Fourth World'A clear break from the conventional approach to economics.'West Africa'A well written book that provides a challenging and welcome break from repetitive debates about the economics of development.'Education with Production'Max-Neef recognises fully that the problems facing us today are very profound.'Edward Goldsmith, Resurgence'This book will have many readers among economists and politicians, as well as among the increasing number of people concerned with development and project design.'Chronicle'Written with passion, this book also inspires passion in the reader, above all because it views the problem of poverty from a new and more human angle.'Development and Education Exchange PapersTable of Contents Foreword - Leopold Kohr Prelude Part I: The ECU-28 Project: Horizontal Communication for Peasants' Participation and Self-Reliance 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Interlude (I) 3. Theoretical Interlude (II) 4. The Perception of Reality 5. In a World Apart 6. The Peasants Get Together 7. In a World of Our Own 8. Far Away and Long Ago Part II: The 'Tiradentes Project': Revitalization of Small Cities for Self-Reliance 9. Introduction 10. Theoretical Interlude (III) 11. Encounter with Reality 12. A Scheme for Action 13. The Action Starts 14. Navigation and Return Notes

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Book SynopsisWith the collapse of colonialism, the millions who had joined the struggle accepted their leaders' new call for 'development'. Little today remains of that enthusiasm. The question they now ask is: can anything be done to stop the process and regenerate the forces needed to bring about change more in accordance with their own aspirations? This reader brings together an exceptionally gifted group of thinkers and activists - from South and North - who have long pondered these questions. Diverse in background and experience, they are all committed, however, to seeing through the rhetoric of development, free from the distorting lenses of ideology and habit. They are also interested in looking at 'the other side of the story', particularly from the perspective of the 'losers'. It is these orientations which make this reader such an original compilation. The contributors illuminate the wisdom of vernacular society which modern development thinking and practice has done so much to denigrate and destroy. They deliver devastating critiques of the dominant development paradigm and what it has done to the peoples of the world and their richly diverse and sustainable ways of living. Most importantly, in terms of the future, they present some of the experiences and ideals out of which ordinary people are now trying to construct their own more humane and culturally and ecologically respectful alternatives to development, which, in turn, may provide useful signposts for those concerned with the post-development era that is now at hand.Trade Review'A monument to the vigour of commonsense in resisting the belief that progress can be likened to a law of nature. This book is a primer for reflection on the fertile potential of the loss of 20th century certainties.' Ivan IllichTable of Contents Introduction - Majid Rahnema Part I: The Vernacular World 1. The Original Affluent Society - Marshall Sahlins 2. Learning from Ladakh - Helena Norberg-Hodge 3. The Economy and Symbolic Sites of Africa - Hassan Zaoual 4. Our Responsibility to the Seventh Generation - Linda Clarkson, Vern Morrissette and Gabriel Regallet 5. The Sprial of the Ram's Horn: Boran Concepts of Development - Gudrun Dahl and Gemetchu Megerssa Part II: The Development Paradigm 6. The Idea of Progress - Teodor Shanin 7. Faust, The First Developer - Marshall Berman 8. The Making and Unmaking of the Third World through Development - Arturo Escobar 9. Development as Planned poverty - Ivan Illich 10. Twenty-six Years Later - Ivan Illich in conversation with Majid Rahnema 11. Development and the People's Immune System: The Story of Another Variety of AIDS - Majid Rahnema Part III: The Vehicles of Development 12. Paradoxical Growth - Serge Latouche 13. The Agony of the Modern State - Rajni Kothari 14. Education as an Instrument of Cultural Defoliation: A Multi-Voice Report - Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Jo-Ann Archibald, Edouard Lizop and Majid Rahnema 15. Western Science and Its Destruction of Local Knowledge - Vandana Shiva 16. Colonization of the Mind - Ashis Nandy 17. The One and Only Way of Thinking - Ignacio Ramonet 18. The New Cultural Domination by the Media - James Petras 19. How the United Nations Promotes Development through Technical Assistance Part IV: Development in Practice 20. How the Poor Develop the Rich - Susan George 21. To Be Like Them - Eduardo Galeano 22. Development and the Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho - James Ferguson 23. Transmigration in Indonesia: How Millions Are Uprooted - Graham Hancock 24. 'Women in Development': A Threat to Liberation - Pan Simmons 25. Tehri: A Catastrophic Dam inthe Himalayas - Peter Bunyard 26. The Development Game - Leonard Frank Part V: Towards the Post-Development Age 27. From Global Thinking to Local Thinking - Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash 28. The Need for the Home Perspective - Wolfgang Sachs 29. Basta! Mexican Indians Say 'Enough!' - Gustavo Esteva 30. The Quest for Simplicity - 'My Idea of Swaraj' - Mahatma Gandhi 31. The Searchers after the Simple Life - David E. Shi 32. The infrapolitics of Subordinate Groups - James C. Scott 33. Alternatives from an indian Grassroots Perspective - D. L. Sheth 34. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens against the State in Central Eastern Europe - Vaclac Havel 35. Protecting the Space Within - Karen Lehman 36. Birth of the Inclusion Society - Judith A. Snow 37. Reinventing the Present: The Chodack Experience in Senegal - EmmanuelSeni N'Dione, Philippe de Leener, Jean-Pierre Perier, Mamadou Ndiaye and Pierre Jacolin Afterword: Towards Post-Development: Searching for Signposts,a New Language and New Paradigms - Majid Rahnema Suggested Readings List of Boxes Index

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Book SynopsisGlobalization creates growth without jobs in the North, structural adjustment in the South, privatization in the East and the dismantling of states everywhere. It is a process which unifies through market integration and new information technologies, yet separates through growing social polarization. It is also a process which depends on the feminization of employment; rather than liberating women into the workplace, globalisation has bred a new underclass of low paid or unpaid women workers. Demonstrating exactly how women, all over the world, have become the call-girls of the global labour market, the author of this extraordinary book uses a mixture of case studies, examples and quotations to illustrate some hard facts. She looks at women across the world - to show how their lives have been turned upside down by industrialization in the South and a return to homeworking in the North. We meet Martha, 17-year old mother of two in Harlem, who cannot afford medical provision on the salary she has been forced to accept; Margaret, former secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture in Nairobi, now trading in second-hand clothes; Li Thi, a Vietnamese woman who is paid $500 a year for stitching the same running shoes that a top US basketball player is paid $20 million a year to promote. From New York to Phnom Penh, from Moscow to Dakar, we see the devastating effects of the unfettered power of transnational corporations on women’s lives. This book charts that devastation and calls for urgent action - by states across the world and by women themselves.Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Global Conveyor Belt 2. Worldwide Service 3. Means of Living 4. Women in the Wreckage of Structural Adjustment 5. Variants of Modernity 6. The Globalization of Women's Movements Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA product of twenty years of analysis and activism, this unique book poses a radical alternative to the current free-market industrial system. A book of history, theory and polemic, the authors show how, if we are to survive, economies must become needs-based, environmentally sustainable, co-operative and local. They explain how the current capitalist systems is none of these things, is inherently unstable and is dependent on the exploitation of various marginalized groups, particularly women, and of the environment. They call instead for a new politics and economics based on subsistence and present examples of such a perspective in practice. They describe current peasant economies and show how they are not only alive and possible but necessary and sufficient - far from being a brutalizing way of life, it is seen to be an empowering form of work on something - agriculture - which is fundamental for a modern subsistence-oriented society. We see indigenous communities in Guatemala setting up their own village-based subsistence economies as a way of liberating themselves from colonial subjectification via wage labour. With examples from Africa, Latin America and Europe, the book shows how the subsistence principle can and does have a positive effect on market exchange - with exchange oriented towards the social good rather than profit. The book concludes with a call for a new politics based on the view from below, rather than one concerned with power and dominance. The authors' subsistence perspective poses a powerful alternative to the top-down ideology of development politics. The book as a whole brilliantly demonstrates how development only works when it is done from the bottom up.Trade Review'In 1995, America's First Lady, Hillary Clinton, visited Bangladesh to interview a group of village women who had received assistance from the Grameen Bank. Hillary wanted to see whether the ?microcredits? had truly succeeded in empowering these women. ...But the village women then asked HIllary about her own situation. Did she own any cows? No. Did she have her own income? Well no, not since Bill came to the White House. How many children? Only one? Poor Hillary. The village women of Bangladesh felt sorry for her, since obviously she - unlike them - was not empowered ... Here you will find many unsung heroes whose solidarity and determined adherence to the subsistence ethic have helped them to retain power over their lives and to resist being swallowed by the global economy.' - Resurgence 'A thought-provoking, challenging work, equally appropriate for development studies, women's studies or environmental studies' - Progress in Development StudiesTable of Contents 1. The History of the Subsistence Approach 2. Globalization and the Subsistence Approach 3. Subsistence and Agriculture: The Land in Women's Hands 4. Subsistence and the Market 5. Subsistence in the City 6. Defending, Reclaiming and Reinventing the Commons 7. Wage-Labour and Subsistence 8. Women's Liberation and Subsistence 9. Subsistence and Politics.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about participatory development's potential for tyranny, showing how it can lead to the unjust and illegitimate exercise of power. It is the first book-length treatment to address the gulf between the almost universally fashionable rhetoric of participation, which promises empowerment and appropriate development on the one hand, and what actually happens when consultants and activists promote and practise participatory development, on the other. The contributors, all social scientists and development specialists, come from various disciplines and a wide variety of hands on experience. Their aim is to provide a sharp contrast to the seductive claims of participation, and to warn its advocates of the pitfalls and limitations of participatory development. The book also challenges participatory practitioners and theorists to reassess their own role in promoting a set of practices which are at best naive about questions of power, and at worst serve systematically to reinforce, rather than overthrow, existing inequalities. For the recipients of participatory development this book provides critical insights into the history, institutions, and day-to-day activities through which participation is 'done to' them. It provides them with a range of arguments which support the legitimate decision not to participate on others' terms. This rigorous and provocative understanding of participatory development is one which donors, academics and practitioners will find hard to ignore.Trade Review'A timely critique of the participation discourse and expose of the seductive arts of official incorporation. Essential reading for all those studying and practising international development as well as social policy nearer home.' Geoff Wood, University of Bath 'Unmasks the moral tyranny imposed through the language of participation which has come to dominate the discourse of 'devspeak'. In exploring participatory practices from several points of view - social psychology, sociology of management, Goffman's analysis of social performance, Foucauldian analysis of discourses and their power - it shows how radical and democratic language may be co-opted with the aim of bringing people's views and expectations into line with the plans devised, with their participation, by their betters. Makes a vital contribution to the sociology of development.' Gavin Williams, University of OxfordTable of Contents 1. The Case for Participation as Tyranny - Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari 2. 'People's Knowledge', Participation and Patronage: Operations and Representations in Rural Development - David Mosse 3. Institutions, Agency and the Limitations of Participatory Approaches to Development - Frances Cleaver 4. Pluralism, Participation and Power: Joint Forest Management in India - Nicholas Hildyard, Pandurang Hegde, Paul Wolvekamp, Somasekhare Reddy 5. Participatory Development at the World Bank: The Primacy of Process - Paul Francis 6. Beyond the Formulaic: Process and Practice in South Asian NGOs - John Hailey 7. The Social-Psychological Limits of Participation? - Bill Cooke 8. Insights into Participation from Critical Management and Labour Process Perspectives - Harry Taylor 9. Participatory Development: Power, Knowledge and Social Control - Uma Kothari 10. Beyond Participation: Strategies for Deeper Empowerment - Giles Mohan 11. Participation as Spiritual Duty: Empowerment as Secular Subjection - Heiko Henkel and Roderick Stirrat Bibliography

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Book Synopsis“Lopes brings his rigour, insight, and experience to this timely new book, presenting a compelling rethink of traditional development models in Africa and the need to seize on transformational change to build a sustainable future for the continent."—Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary General “Some readers will enjoy Lopes’ eclectic brilliance and breath-taking culture. Others will salute his ability to bring compelling new angles to every topic. Everyone will be impressed with his craftsmanship, his rich and multi-faceted approach to development, and his high ethical standards. It is impossible to read this jewel book and not feel smarter.”—Célestin Monga, African Development Bank’s Vice President and Chief Economist “Drawing on his distinguished academic career, policy experience at the highest level, and deep love of the continent, Lopes provides a visionary analysis of Africa's current problems and future prospects. This book provides a highly unusual combination of intellectualism and hard-nosed pragmatism. A singular achievement.” —Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, UK“Thorough, thought-provoking, and beyond rhetoric: definitely a must-read for anyone who wants to understand Africa’s present and future.”—Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, France Lopes delivers an overview of the critical development issues facing the African continent today. He offers readers a blueprint of policies to address issues, and an intense, heartfelt meditation on the meaning of economic development in the age of democratic doubts, identity crises, global fears and threatening issues of sustainability.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Reflecting on Africa’s Contemporary DynamicsChapter 2: Changing PoliticsChapter 3: Respecting DiversityChapter 4: Understanding Policy SpaceChapter 5: Structural Transformation through IndustrialisationChapter 6: Increasing Agricultural ProductivityChapter 7: Revisiting the Social ContractChapter 8: Adjusting to Climate ChangeChapter 9: Inserting Agency in the Relations with ChinaChapter 10: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis open access book analyses the development problems of sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) from the eyes of a Korean diplomat with knowledge of the economic growth Korea has experienced in recent decades. The author argues that Africa's development challenges are not due to a lack of resources but a lack of management, presenting an alternative to the traditional view that Africa's problems are caused by a lack of leadership. In exploring an approach based on mind-set and nation-building, rather than unity – which tends to promote individual or party interests rather than the broader country or national interests – the author suggests new solutions for SSA's economic growth, inspired by Korea's successful economic growth model much of which is focused on industrialisation. This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, NGOs and governmental bodies in economics, development and politics studying Africa's economic development, and Korea's economic growth model.Trade Review“The work is geared towards a general readership interested in Korea’s development process and African politics in relation to the obstacles to development.” (Joonhwa Cho, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 93 (1), 2020)Table of ContentsPart 1: The Paradox of Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter 1: Disillusionment and Dilemma Chapter 2: Assessing the Role of Foreign Aid, Donors and RecipientsPart 2: Rethinking the Root Causes of Africa's Under-Development Chapter 3: Review of Conventional Explanations Chapter 4: Uncovering the Main Root Cause: The Mindset Factor Part 3: Africa’s Incomplete Nation-Building: What is Missing?Chapter 5: Finding the Missing Links Chapter 6: Reasons for Optimism and the Tasks at Hand Part 4: Understanding Korean Development Model and PoliciesChapter 7: Korea's Path of Development in Retrospect Chapter 8: The Essence of the Korean Model of Development Part 5: Implications of the Korean Development Model for AfricaChapter 9: Applicability of the Korean Model of Development for Africa Chapter 10: Policy Recommendations for Africa Chapter 11: Engineering Rural Development for Africa Part 6: Re-Inventing Africa’s Development from the Lessons LearnedChapter 12: Re-Setting the Priorities Chapter 13: Enacting a Bold but Harmonious Change

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Book SynopsisThis open access book is a collection of 12 case studies capturing decades of experience improving health care and outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. Each case study is written by healthcare managers and providers who have implemented health improvement projects using quality improvement methodology, with analysis from global health experts on the practical application of improvement methods. The book shows how frontline providers in health and social services can identify gaps in care, propose changes to address those gaps, and test the effectiveness of their changes in order to improve health processes and outcomes. The chapters feature cases that provide real-life examples of the challenges, solutions, and benefits of improving healthcare quality and clearly demonstrate for readers what quality improvement looks like in practice: Addressing Behavior Change in Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health with Quality Improvement and Collaborative Learning Methods in Guatemala Haiti’s National HIV Quality Management Program and the Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record to Drive Improvement in Patient Care Scaling Up a Quality Improvement Initiative: Lessons from Chamba District, India Promoting Rational Use of Antibiotics in the Kyrgyz Republic Strengthening Services for Most Vulnerable Children through Quality Improvement Approaches in a Community Setting: The Case of Bagamoyo District, Tanzania Improving HIV Counselling and Testing in Tuberculosis Service Delivery in Ukraine: Profile of a Pilot Quality Improvement Team and Its Scale‐Up Journey Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Case Book will find an engaged audience among healthcare providers and administrators implementing and managing improvement projects at Ministries of Health in low- to middle-income countries. The book also aims to be a useful reference for government donor agencies, their implementing partners, and other high-level decision makers, and can be used as a course text in schools of public health, public policy, medicine, and development.ACKNOWLEDGMENT:This work was conducted under the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project, USAID Award No. AID-OAA-A-12-00101, which is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).DISCLAIMER:The contents of this book are the sole responsibility of the Editor(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.< div="">^Trade ReviewTable of ContentsOverviewBy James Heiby, USAIDOverall introduction to the book that explains the purpose of the book, a short explanation of what the improvement process is about, and briefly discusses what the book is not covering.Part 1: Facility-level improvementCase 1: Improving Quality of Care for Respiratory Tract Infections in Children: The Role of Capacity Building and Coaching in Supporting a Multi-Facility Improvement Team in Samtredia District, GeorgiaBy Tamar Chitashvili and Ekaterine Cherkezishvili, University Research Co., LLC This case study describes the experience of a multi-facility quality improvement team in Imereti’s Samtredia District in Georgia that addressed the quality of care for respiratory tract infections among children. The case study details the design and implementation of the improvement effort, and provides details about the capacity building and coaching support provided to the team that helped lead to improved health outcomes.Case 2: Integrating Gender to Improve Outcomes in an elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV Program at Ivukula Health Center III in Eastern UgandaBy Taroub Faramand, WI-HER, LLC In partnership with Uganda's Ministry of Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded projects joined expertise in quality improvement and nutrition to put into practice an initiative that addressed all aspects of ensuring healthy HIV-free infants. This case study focuses on how a successful pilot team in eastern Uganda used quality improvement tools to identify clinic inefficiencies and put into action a plan to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and improve nutrition assessment, care and support services. Case 3: Improving HIV counseling and testing in tuberculosis service delivery in Ukraine: it all starts with one good teamBy Nilufar Rakhmanova, FHI 360 Because TB and HIV programs in Ukraine functioned separately as vertical programs—focusing on specific health conditions—they often missed a window of opportunity for diagnosing HIV at an earlier phase of infection. This case study describes how a successful pilot team in Chervonograd, Ukraine used quality improvement methods to raise the rates of HIV counseling and testing offered to clients tested for TB and how the team scaled up its successes to other sites.Part 2: Community-level improvementCase 4: Strengthening accessibility of services to most vulnerable children through quality improvement approaches in community settings: Case of Bagamoyo district, TanzaniaBy Flora Nyagawa, University Research Co., LLC This case study describes a quality improvement approach to ensure implementation of the National Quality Improvement Guidelines for Most Vulnerable Children in Bagamoyo District, Tanzania. The case study largely focuses on the steps needed to organize improvement efforts; including how project participants formed teams, carried out introductory visits, initiated district and ward efforts, conducted baseline assessments, and built capacity. Case 5: Addressing behavior change with quality improvement methods in GuatemalaBy Elena Hurtado, University Research Co., LLC In Guatemala, quality improvement and collaborative learning methods were applied to two social and behavior change (SBCC) interventions to strengthen families' health and nutrition-related knowledge and behaviors. This case details the organization of the quality improvement effort and team formation, the role of coaches, and explores challenges to making the improvements a permanent part of health services.Part 3: District/regional-level improvementCase 6: Scaling up a quality improvement initiative: Lessons from Chamba District, IndiaBy Nigel Livesley, University Research Co., LLC The Government of India, concerned with poor antenatal care outcomes in Chamba district, enlisted the help of a USAID-funded project with decades of experience in quality improvement. Healthcare practitioners and district officials were initially skeptical about the efficacy of quality improvement methods and reluctant to receive external technical assistance; however, the success of the program eventually won over key stakeholders. This case explores the role of leadership and early successes in creating buy-in for a quality improvement intervention, and the role the support of key stakeholders played in the scale-up of the effort.Case 7: Promoting rational use of antibiotics in the Kyrgyz RepublicBy Barton Smith, Edmonds Family Medicine, formerly with Abt Associates In the Kyrgyz Republic, quality improvement methods were used to promote rational antibiotic use among prescribers. This case highlights the important role data collection, access, and analysis played in identifying and reducing incorrect prescription of antibiotics.Case 8: Improving access to essential medicines through active engagement of district leadership in Kaborole District, UgandaBy Herbert Kisamba, University Research Co., LLC With the expansion of health coverage in Uganda, the government began to shift its priorities to emphasize quality of health care and patient safety. In Kaborole District, the government decided to target timely ordering of medicines and tuberculosis treatment for district-level quality improvement work because these were two of the worst areas of performance within the health system. The intervention provided an opportunity to the senior-level staff of the district health system to appreciate modern quality improvement methods and apply them.Case 9: Strengthening systems to improve nutrition care, support, and treatment in Malawi: Results from Balaka and Karonga districtsBy Linley Hauya, University Research Co., LLC Malawi was one of the first countries to integrate nutrition assessment, counseling, and support into its HIV and TB care framework and the government intended the provision of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) to be a cornerstone of care. However, incomplete national-level data on the number of people requiring RUTF frequently led to supply-shortages. Because RUTF was frequently unavailable, many health facilities did not bother recording the number of patients requiring it. This case discusses how district quality improvement teams were able to address this vicious cycle to improve patient care.Case 10: Bridging the gap between emergency response and health systems strengthening: Designing quality improvement during the Zika outbreakBy Eric Baranick, University Research Co., LLC In mid-2015, the Zika virus arrived in Brazil; within a year, the virus had travelled to 21 other countries in the Americas. As the magnitude of the epidemic unfolded, new and troubling evidence emerged about an uptick in birth defects in Zika-affected regions and their potential link to this virus, causing the WHO to declare Zika a public health emergency of international concern. This case explores the actions required to build a foundation for and implement quality improvement in a crisis setting.Part 4: National-level improvementCase 11: Use of an electronic medical record to drive national improvement, HaitiBy Joshua Bardfield, HEALTHQUAL International In Haiti, an electronic medical record system drives national and local quality improvement efforts as part of a national quality management program supported by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. This case study describes how quality improvement teams transitioned from a paper-based to an electronic medical record system and how the government used analysis of the electronic data to set improvement priorities.Case 12: Improving maternal and neonatal health in MozambiqueBy Edgar Necochea, Jhpiego Although more than half of deliveries in Mozambique occur at health facilities, high maternal mortality rates have persisted as a public health issue. To address concerns about the quality of health facility care, the Mozambique Ministry of Health launched the Model Maternities Initiative from 2009-2014, which represented about half of all maternities in the country, covering approximately one-third of all institutional deliveries. As part of this initiative, quality improvement teams used a standardized assessment tool to identify performance gaps and put in place rapid interventions—such as basic infection prevention practices and minor infrastructure repairs—to produce swift results. This case study demonstrates how it is possible to systematically improve the delivery of health services at the facility level, across an entire country, with very limited external assistance – despite the challenges faced, which are common to many low-income settings.Case 13: The business case of quality in health care: A sustainable financing and technical assistance approach to quality improvement in KenyaBy Nicole Spieker, PharmAccess Introducing international standards, stepwise certifications, and a transparent rating and improvement program to healthcare providers in Kenya has proven to be a successful approach towards sustainable quality assurance. This case study explores the introduction of medical and business quality standards at a single health facility and outlines the activities that were required to adhere to the new standards.Case 14: Improving quality of voluntary medical male circumcision: A case study of UgandaBy John Byabagambi, University Research Co., LLC Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) has the potential to significantly reduce HIV transmission; however, as with any medical procedure, there is a need to assess the quality of VMMC service provision to ensure that procedures are safe and follow established norms and protocols. This case describes the experience of adapting VMMC assessment tools from high-income counties to the Ugandan context in a large number of health care facilities throughout the country and using these customized tools to address gaps in VMMC service delivery.Part 5: DiscussionBy James Heiby, USAID A concluding chapter summarizes what these cases tell us overall about healthcare improvement in low- and middle-income countries, and specifically about different topics, including: getting improvement teams started, how teams test changes, support for improvement teams, learning from improvement, and scaling up improvement. In addition, this chapter addresses the question: “What’s next in QI?”, highlighting what we do not know and what we want to learn how to do better. The chapter is authored by editor James Heiby and could be presented in the format of a narrative or an interview with other experts in quality improvement. BibliographyAn annotated bibliography highlights other materials, articles, etc. drawn on in the thematic chapters and provides links to supplemental materials published on the USAID ASSIST Project website (https://www.usaidassist.org/) (or on a web page provided by the publisher).Glossary of termsA glossary of terms related to quality improvement is included at the end of the book. Examples of such terms that would be included are provided below: Accreditation Aim Coaching Collaborative improvement Institutionalization Learning session Plan-do-study-act Process improvement Quality assurance Quality improvement Spread

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Book SynopsisThis open access book on the state of peacebuilding in Africa brings together the work of distinguished scholars, practitioners, and decision makers to reflect on key experiences and lessons learned in peacebuilding in Africa over the past half century. The core themes addressed by the contributors include conflict prevention, mediation, and management; post-conflict reconstruction, justice and Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration; the role of women, religion, humanitarianism, grassroots organizations, and early warning systems; and the impact of global, regional, and continental bodies. The book's thematic chapters are complemented by six country/region case studies: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan/South Sudan, Mozambique and the Sahel/Mali. Each chapter concludes with a set of key lessons learned that could be used to inform the building of a more sustainable peace in Africa. The State of Peacebuilding in Africa was born out of the activities of the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP), a Carnegie-funded, continent-wide network of African organizations that works with the Wilson Center to bring African knowledge and perspectives to U.S., African, and international policy on peacebuilding in Africa. The research for this book was made possible by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.Trade Review“This edited volume is a bracing read due to its description of the many failings of peacebuilding in Africa, and it offers, if not always systematically, useful thoughts on how peacebuilding might be pointed in a direction that takes account of politics and viability.” (David Harris, International Affairs, Vol. 97 (4), 2021)Table of ContentsPart 1 Peacebuilding in Transition 1 Introduction Terence McNamee and Monde Muyangwa 2 Learning Lessons from Peace Operations in Africa Paul D. Williams 3 The Economics of Peacebuilding: International Organizations for Dealing with Victor and Vanquished Vera Songwe 4 Religion and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa Lado Tonlieu Ludovic 5. Field Reflections on Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Social Imperative of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration Betty O. Bigombe 6. United Nations Peacekeeping and Human Rights, Refugees, and Internal Displacement Ibrahim J. Wani Part 2 Strategies and Tools 7 Sustaining Women, Peace, and Security: The Role of UN Peacekeeping in Africa Lisa Sharland 8 Local Peace Committees and Grassroots Peacebuilding in Africa Fritz Nganje 9 Three Decades of Disarmament, Demobilization, Demilitarization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in Africa: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead Anatole Ayissi 10 The Changing Nature of Elections in Africa: Impact on Peacebuilding Franklin Oduro 11 Contributions of Early Warning to the African Peace and Security Architecture: The Experience of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) Chukwuemeka Eze and Osei Baffour Frimpong Part 3 Regional and International Dimensions of Peacebuilding 12 The African Union in Peacebuilding in Africa Gilbert M. Khadiagala 13 Trends in SADC mediation and Long-Term Conflict Mediation Dimpho Deleglise 14. The International Criminal Court’s Impact on Peacebuilding in Africa Phil Clark 15. Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding: Incompatible or Complementary? Jens Pedersen 16 Peace Management and Conflict Resolution: A Practitioner’s Perspective Ibrahim A. Gambari Part 4 Country Case Studies 17 Peacebuilding as State-Building? Lessons from the Democratic Republic of the Congo Rachel Sweet 18 Violence, Peacebuilding and Elite Bargains in Mozambique since Independence Alex Vines 19 The Dog That Did Not Bark: Why Has Sierra Leone Not Returned to War After Peacekeepers Left? Adekeye Adebajo 20 Lessons in Failure: Peacebuilding in Sudan/South Sudan Jok Madut Jok 21 Such a Long Journey: Peacebuilding After Genocide in Rwanda Terence McNamee 22 Crisis and Transition in the Sahel Paul Melly 23 Conclusion Terence McNamee and Monde Muyangwa

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the scope of reforms and changes in the social protection systems in Latin America that have started at the beginning of the 21st century. It describes how and to what extent changes in social protection systems and social policies have occurred in the region in recent decades. Taking a comparative approach, the volume identifies the triggers for the transformations and how such pressures are received by the welfare regime, or a specific policy sector, to finally yield a given type of reform. The analysis is characterized by the presence of certain factors that explain the development of social protection systems in Latin America, such as economic growth, the consolidation of democratic political regimes, and the region’s Left Turns. The book also examines to what extent common challenges and processes induced by international institutions have led to convergence among countries or welfare regimes, or whether each maintains its own identity.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Latin American social protection systems in action: triggers and outcomes of reforms at the start of the 21th century Part I: Durability and Change in Latin American welfare regimes Chapter 2: Stratified universalistic regimes in the 21st century: Widening and compounding inequalities in welfare and social structure in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, and Costa Rica Chapter 3: Actors and Social Reforms in Five Dual Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela Chapter 4: Reviewing exclusionary welfare regimes: Andean countries (Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru) Chapter 5: How 'liberal' are Latin American welfare regimes? Part II: Explaining social policy change and its consequences in Latin America Chapter 6: Social security and pensions systems: the deep stratification of Latin American societies Chapter 7: Health care reform in Latin America: not all roads lead to Rome Chapter 8: Social Assistance: Conditional Cash Transfers – a gateway into social protection systems Chapter 9: Beyond States and Markets: families and Family Regimes in Latin America Chapter 10: Family policies in Latin American re-enforcing familialism Part III: The end of an era? Chapter 11: The paradigmatic radical reform in Brazil`s social policies: the impact of the Temer Administration

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth and broad study on rural Latin America over a 60-year period. Using a case study approach of Mexico and Venezuela, peasants and lower rural classes are examined at the local, meso and national levels. Additionally, the study analyzes government policies, development, and leadership in each country. Latin America has tried to ride the waves of globalization, worldwide economic and environmental crises; the author examines Mexico and Venezuela's relations with the political hegemony of superpowers like the US, EU and China. The material will appeal to researchers, graduate students and policy makers in the fields of rural development, Latin American politics, and international relations.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Working in Latin America: The Paradoxes of Developmentalism.- Chapter 3. The Agroecological Revolution.- Chapter 4. Southern Mexico: Revolution, Agrarian Reform and Rural Development.- Chapter 5. Mexico in the New Emerging World Order.- Chapter 6. Recent Developments in Mexico Can Mexico Remake itself? - Chapter 7. Economic Backwardness in the Venezuelan Andes.- Chapter 8. The Situation in the Llanos.- Chapter 9. Venezuela Revisited: 1979 and 2010: Betancourt.- Chapter 10. The Economic Crisis and the Chávez Presidency.- Chapter 11. Venezuela 2013–2019: Chaos and decline.- Chapter 12. Maduro Makes a Mockery of Democracy in Venezuela.- Chapter 13. Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers ‘fragments’ of the urban that provide clues to the larger, often-repeated ontological question that continues to hold: Why and what does theory from the South mean? The chapters derive from and speak to the simultaneously homogenous and heterogeneous South. They focus on presenting the alternative realities of Southern cities as critical analytical lenses that can build up to the theorisation of the Southern urban with a potential to (re)understand the contemporary urban world. The contributions explore locally rooted knowledge systems, premised on social and cultural practices, as possible conduits to evolving planning methods. In doing so, the volume breaks apart the linear modernity that urban theory from the North relies on. Chapters [Chapter-1] and [Chapter-11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction/A Critical Appreciation of Urban Trajectories in the Global South: Mutual Learning Opportunities (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery). - Part I: Emerging Planning Territories: Co-producing Spaces, Knowledge and Vocabularies. - Chapter 2. Addressing Metropolitan Governance through Suburban Space in an Ordinary City Region (Sarani Khatua). - Chapter 3. Planning for the urban mosaic of a mega-city: the case of urban villages in Delhi (Banashree Banerjee). - Chapter 4. Invisible territories: The visibility of an urban crisis in Medellin (Edwar A. Calderón). - Chapter 5. A Tenure Security-Responsive Approach: The Case of Barrio Cantera, San Martín de los Andes, Argentina. - (Claudia Sakay, Silvia Aún, Akiko Okabe). - Chapter 6. Informality, Everyday Practices, and Public Space (re)appropriation: The caseof El Cisne Dos, Guayaquil (Xavier Méndez Abad, Hans Leinfelder, Kris Scheerlinck). - Part II: Planning Histories and Emerging Conflicts: Juxtaposition of the Traditional and the Modern. - Chapter 7. De-Colonising Gray Space: Bedouin-Arabs Resisting Metropolitan Displacement (Oren Yiftachel, Safa Abu Rabia, Erez Tzfadia). - Chapter 8. Urban Planning and Rationality Conflicts in Malawi (Mtafu Manda). - Chapter 9. Reimagining Urban Planning in a Tribal Region: Reflections from a Fifth Schedule Area of India (Aashish Khakha). - Chapter 10. Religious Urbanism: Emergent Mixed-use Approaches to Planning and (re)development in Lagos, Nigeria (Taibat Lawanson). - Chapter 11. New directions in spatial development in Southern Africa: Outlining the background, influences and significance of co-produced spatial production in Namibia (Guillermo Delgado). - Chapter 12. Urban Planning Practices in Mainland China: Evolution and Paradigm Shifts (Zhi Liu). - Chapter 13: Conclusions (Anjali Karol Mohan, Juliana Gomez and Sony Pellissery)

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Book SynopsisThis book, exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading researchers in the areas of philosophy of disability, disability law, and disability policy. It addresses both the philosophical foundations of the CRPD as well as complex contemporary legal and policy debates.With a comprehensive introduction outlining key milestones in the development and implementation of the CRPD, the book addresses the most fundamental questions the CRPD raises for the way we think about human rights, law, and disability, and how we operationalize rights in the legal and policy domains. The contributors traverse themes of personhood, equality, capacity, and intersectionality, explore the dilemmas involved in translating these concepts in practice, and reflect on the promises and limitations of the human rights project.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Towards Inclusive Equality: Ten Years of the Human Rights Model of Disability in the Work of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.- Chapter 3: What Does the CRPD Tell Us about Being Human?.- Chapter 4: Rights, Justice and Flourishing: The Uses and Limitations of Human Rights.- Chapter 5: Disability and the Dilemma of Difference.- Chapter 6: Forms of Equality, Faces of Discrimination: CRPD Article 5, Article 12, and the Disability’s Difference Debate.- Chapter 7: The right to autonomy and the conditions that secure it: the relationship between the CRPD and market-based policy reform.- Chapter 8: At the Intersection of Childhood and Disability: Improving Human Rights Protection for Disabled Children.- Chapter 9: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health: the Problems, Dilemmas and Untapped Potential.- Chapter 10: Disability and Forced Migration: Critical Connections and the Global South Debate.- Chapter 11: Intersections in Human Rights and Public Policy for Indigenous People with Disability.- Chapter 12: Examining Australia’s Performance in Realising CRPD Obligations in Health Through the Lens of COVID-19.

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