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Book SynopsisChallenging the dominant and mainstream views in global development, this pioneering Handbook questions the entirety of the development process in order to outline holistic political economies of development, discontents, and alternatives.
Critically engaging with key theoretical debates and constructs in development studies, the contributors assess the problem of global development and underdevelopment, and the existing problematic explanations and solutions, before outlining alternatives. Chapters explore the nature of development, engaging with, critiquing, and going beyond the dominant theoretical approaches of modernisation, dependency, neoliberalism, human development, sustainable development, and postdevelopment. The chapters further examine more recent powerful forces of change, including sustainability, self-reliance, social and solidarity economies, and ecological alternatives. The Handbook makes a convincing case for an open-ended, ongoing theorisation of development and leaves readers with a key take-away: that not only inequalities but also social stratification can be used to frame the theorising, teaching, practice, praxis, policies, politics, activism, and indeed everything in the political economy of development.
Underpinning innovative new research on development, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of development studies, development economics, political economy, and social policy in emerging countries. Global in scope, policymakers and practitioners working in the Global South and the Global North will also find this Handbook refreshing.
Table of ContentsContents: PART I GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT 1 Broken mirrors: towards holistic political economies of development, its discontents and alternatives 2 Franklin Obeng-Odoom 2 Imperialism and postcolonialism 12 Jayanth Tharappel PART II PROBLEMATIC EXPLANATIONS 3 Neoliberalism and development 39 Bill Dunn 4 Property rights 55 Giorgos Meramveliotakis and Dimitris Milonakis 5 Land reforms 75 Tim Anderson 6 Resource curse 91 Cyril Obi 7 Human capital, gender and intersectionality 107 Irene Browne and Allison Sullivan 8 International trade and economic development 123 Amitava Krishna Dutt 9 Cities and development 143 Heba E. Helmy 10 Microcredit: when market-driven social innovations go wrong 168 Milford Bateman 11 Reverse remittances 198 Geraldine Asiwome Ampah 12 The poverty of development theory: China’s Faustian bargain with global capital 215 Walden Bello PART III ALTERNATIVES 13 Sustainability and sustainable communities 233 David Barkin 14 Self-reliance and autonomous development 250 Julia Eder 15 Social and solidarity economy 273 Nathanael Ojong 16 Development and (dis)abilities 289 Hisayo Katsui 17 Black feminism and development 305 Odile Mackett 18 Burkindi: self-centred development 323 Zakaria Soré and Paul Marie Moyenga 19 Bioeconomy: a solution to the challenges of a post-fossil future? 334 Dennis Eversberg, Jana Holz and Matthias Schmelzer 20 Ecological reparations 352 Franklin Obeng-Odoom Index 362
