Ebook: Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions

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 SussexPraise for the previous edition:'This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies' - Keith Griffin, University of California, RiversideThis is the se.  Read more... Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface to the second edition; Introduction; 1Trends in Development Theory; 2 Dilemmas of Development Discourse: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method; 3 The Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical Globalism; 4 Delinking or Globalization?; 5 The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power; 6 My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development; 7 After Post-development; 8 Equity and Growth Revisited: From Human Development to Social Development