Development Theory Published in association with Theory Culture Society Professor Second Edition by Jan Nederveen Pieterse ISBN 978-1412945158 1412945151
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ISBN 10: 1412945151
ISBN 13: 978-1412945158
Author: Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the Second Edition of this successful book:
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
In this book, the author brings a huge range of experience and knowledge about the relationship between the economically advanced and the emerging, developing nations.
Table of contents:
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
Theorizing world development: 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
Development as discourse
Alternatives to development
Anti-managerialism
Dichotomic thinking
The 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 and complexity politics
Complexity politics
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
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