{"product_id":"the-essential-guide-to-critical-development-studies-9780367478858","title":"The Essential Guide to Critical Development","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies\u003c\/em\u003e provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e â 18 new chapters, including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e â Expanded global cover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'In this updated and expanded edition across over forty chapters, this volume is the \"go to\" source for scholars and students of critical development studies. It provides the highest levels of scholarship and knowledge around the history, content and scope of the field with relevance for challenging and posing contemporary policy and activism.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBen Fine,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Given the aspirations for social, economic and climate justice, the need for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge that points us toward bold alternatives has never been greater. This Essential Guide offers an invaluable resource in this regard. Its chronicling of the trajectory of development studies will be particularly useful to contemporary scholars to see their ideas in a historical context.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnanya Mukherjee Reed,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eProfessor, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada; Co-editor, \u003c\/em\u003eCanadian Journal of Development Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The second edition of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eEssential Guide to Critical Development Studies\u003c\/em\u003e offers a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive and highly accessible guide to the growing field of international development studies from a critical perspective. It is critical in two senses: critical of mainstream development thought, while at the same time scrutinising popular ideas on alternatives. It will be an indispensable guide for academic researchers (students and senior scholars) as well as activists and development policy practitioners.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSaturnino M. Borras Jr.,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Agrarian Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'We have not reached the end of history but the story of progress, its errors and criticisms, is the most important one in social science. Here critical development scholars have both charted and navigated an extensive archipelago of ideas to produce this guide. This updated and expanded edition covers many crucial debates and is indispensable.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara Harriss-White\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFAcSS, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritical Development Studies: An Introduction\u003c\/strong\u003e 1. Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics with Illustrations from Seven Decades \u003cb\u003ePart 1: History as Development \u003c\/b\u003e2. Unravelling the Canvas of History \u003cb\u003ePart 2: Thinking Critically about Development \u003c\/b\u003e3. Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects 4. Race in\/and Development 5. Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot 6. Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development 7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Development Studies \u003cb\u003ePart 3: System Dynamics: Capitalism, Imperialism, Development, and Globalisation \u003c\/b\u003e8. Capitalism and Crises 9.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eDevelopment, Capitalism, Imperialism, Globalisation: A Tale of Four Concepts 10. Globalisation Versus Development: Beyond Dualism 11. Philanthrocapitalism and Development 12. The Migration-Development Nexus in the Neoliberal Era \u003cb\u003ePart 4: Policy Configurations for Development \u003c\/b\u003e13. The Post-Washington Consensus 14. International Cooperation for Development 15. The Developmental State, Globalisation, and Structural Transformations 16. Local Economic Development, Microcredit, and Financial Inclusion \u003cb\u003ePart 5: Inside the BRICS\u003c\/b\u003e 17. Brazil: Development Strategies and Peripheral Conditions 18. India: Critical Issues of a ‘Tortuous Transition’ 19. Interrogating the China Model of Development 20. South Africa: An Economy of Extremes \u003cb\u003ePart 6: Poverty, Inequalities, and Development Dynamics\u003c\/b\u003e 21. Development: Class Matters 22. The Dynamics of Poverty Production: A Political Economy Perspective for the SDGs Era 23. Poverty Analysis through a Gender Lens 24. Women, Work, and Gender Inequalities: With Illustrations from Cambodia and China 25. Health Inequalities and Development in a Global Context \u003cb\u003ePart 7: Capitalism, Labour and the State\u003c\/b\u003e 26. Labour and Development 27. The Triangle of Underdevelopment: Technology, Patents, and Monopoly 28. The Making of the New Chinese Working Class 29. Labour and Development in Latin America 30. Class and State Formation in the Gulf Arab States \u003cb\u003ePart 8: Dynamics of Agrarian Change and Urban Development\u003c\/b\u003e 31. Contemporary Dynamics of Agrarian Change 32. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions 33. Urban Development in the Global South 34. Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism \u003cb\u003ePart 9: Development, Climate Change, and the Environment \u003c\/b\u003e35. Eco-Marxist Lenses for Viewing Human-Nature Relations 36. Climate Change and Development 37.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Energy Transition and the Global South 38. The Political Economy of Extractivism in North Africa \u003cb\u003ePart 10: Resistances and Alternatives\u003c\/b\u003e 39.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eUnderstanding the Rise of the Far Right, and what to do about it 40. Rural Dispossession and Resistance in Asia and Africa 41. Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Latin America 42. Colonialism’s Miasmas: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience 43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management 44. Communitarian Revolutions: Ecological Economics from Below \u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e 45. Moving towards Another World: Possibilities and Pitfalls\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017919299927,"sku":"9780367478858","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367478858.jpg?v=1750775082","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-essential-guide-to-critical-development-studies-9780367478858","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}