Förbättrade beskrivningar från Syndetics:

This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses. - Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Praise for the previous edition:

"This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies". - Keith Griffin, University of California, Riverside

This is the second edition of this successful book. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, it:

Situates students in the expanding field of development theory. Provides an unrivalled guide to the strengths and weaknesses of competing theoretical approaches. Explains key concepts. Examines the shifts in theory. Offers an agenda for the future.

Jan Nederveen brings together a huge range of experience and knowledge about the relationship between the economically advanced and the emerging, developing nations.

Innehållsförteckning levererad av Syndetics

• 1 Trends in development theory
• Development in question
• The status of development theory
• Meanings of 'development' over time
• Development is struggle
• The development field
• Trends in development theory
• 2 Dilemmas of development discourse - the crisis of developmentalism and the comparative method
• From evolutionism to development
• Development as redemption
• The crisis of developmentalism
• Options
• From bipolarity to polycentrism
• The deconstruction of the West
• 3 The development of development theory: towards critical globalism
• Notions of change
• Development theories in the plural
• Modernization revisited
• Critical globalism
• 4 Delinking or globalization?
• 5 The cultural turn in development: questions of power
• National culture
• Local culture
• Culture/ power
• Add culture and stir
• Development and cultural liberty
• 6 My paradigm or yours? Variations on alternative development
• Alternative development
• Alternative development paradigm
• Paradigm politics
• Mainstream development
• Conclusion
• 7 After post-development
• Problematizing poverty
• Development=westernization
• Critique of modernism and science
• Development as discourse
• Alternatives to development
• Anti-managerialism
• Dichotomic thinking
• Politics of post-development
• Coda
• 8 Equity and growth revisited: from human development to social development
• Social development
• Redistribution with growth
• Lessons of East Asia
• Human development
• Lessons of welfare states
• Social capital
• Conclusion
• 9 Critical holism and the Tao of development
• Remedying remedies
• Wholeness, holism
• Contradictions of modernity
• Development and high modernism
• Shortcuts and other remedies
• Towards the Tao of development
• 10 Digital capitalism and development: The unbearable lightness of ICT4D
• Bridging the digital divide
• ICT4D as a package deal
• Digital capitalism? cyber utopia
• ICT4D and development studies
• ICT4D and development policy
• 11 Futures of development
• Futures of development thinking
• Development as collective learning
• Complexity
• Reflexive modernity, reflexive development
• Reconstructions
• 12 Twenty-first century globalization and development
• Twenty-first century globalization
• Turning points
• New development era
• Development pluralism
• International development cooperation
• After the crisis