STUART CORBRIDGE (ed.)

The Development Reader

Herausgeber: Chari, Sharad; Corbridge, Stuart

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Development Reader brings together a set of key readings that explore the changing ways that ideas of development are understood, contested and put into practice. Adam Smith and Karl Marx meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs, and section and individual extract introductions guide students through the material and bind the readings into a coherent whole.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1136g
• ISBN-13: 9780415415057
• ISBN-10: 0415415055
• Artikelnr.: 23201426

Autorenporträt

Sharad Chari is Lecturer in Human Geography at the London School of Economics. He works on the historical ethnography of labour, work, activism, gender, state-sanctioned racism, and development in India and South Africa. He is the author of Fraternal Capital: Peasant-workers, self-made men, and globalization in provincial India (Stanford University Press, 2004), and is working on a monograph on space, race and activism in twentieth-century South Africa. Stuart Corbridge is Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics. He has written widely on economic and political change in India and the history of development thought. His most recent book (with Williams, Srivastava and Veron) is Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (CUP, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Object of Development. 'The Geography of Poverty and Wealth'
J. Sachs, A. Mellinger and J. Gallup. Late Victorian Holocausts M. Davis.
Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest A.
McClintock Part 2: Markets, Empire, Nature, Difference. 'Economic
Development: A Semantic History' H.Arndt. The Wealth of Nations, Book IV
A. Smith. 'British Rule in India' K. Marx. On Social Evolution: Selected
Writings H. Spencer. Hind Swaraj M.K. Gandhi Part 3: Reform, Revolution,
Resistance. 'Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren' J.M. Keynes.
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
K. Polanyi. Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and
Netherlands India J.S. Furnivall. Bread and Democracy in Germany A.
Gerschenkron. 'This is the Voice of Algeria' F.Fanon Part 4: Promethean
Visions. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third
World A. Escobar. The Stages of Economic Growth W.W. Rostow. The Population
of India and Pakistan K. Davis. 'Economic Development with Unlimited
Supplies of Labour W.A. Lewis. 'The Distribution of Gains between Investing
and Borrowing Countries' H. Singer. The Economics of Feasible Socialism
Revisited A. Nove. 'Man and Nature in China' R. Murphey Part 5: Challenges
to the Mainstream the Political Economy of Growth P. Baran. 'Capitalism and
Cheap Labour Power in South Africa: From Segregation to Apartheid' H.
Wolpe. Women's Role in Economic Development E. Boserup. Silent Spring R.
Carson. Why Poor People Stay Poor: A Study of Urban Bias in World
Development M. Lipton. 'Latin American Squatter Settlements: A Problem and
a Solution' W. Mangin Part 6: The Hubris of Development. 'Foreign Aid
Forever?' P. Bauer. The Poverty of 'Development Economics' D. Lal.
'Democracy and the "Washington Consensus" J. Williamson. Seeing Like a
State J. Scott. 'The Irrelevance of Development Studies' M. Edwards. 'Male
Bias in the Development Process: An Overview' D. Elson. 'The Anti-Politics
Machine: 'Development' and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho' J. Ferguson with
L.Lohmann Part 7: Institutions, Governance and Participation. 'Goodbye
Washington Consensus, Hello Washington Confusion?' D. Rodrik. 'Was Latin
America too Rich to Prosper?: Structural and Political Obstacles to
Export-Led Economic Growth' J. Mahon. 'Fiscal Reform and the Economic
Foundations of Local State Corporatism in China' J. Oi. 'Moving the State:
The Politics of Democratic Decentralization in Kerala, South Africa and
Porto Allegre' P. Heller. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the
Legacy of Late Colonialism M. Mamdani. 'People's Knowledge', Participation
and Patronage' D. Mosse Part 8: Globalization, Security and Well-Being.
Why Globalization Works M. Wolf . 'Is Globalization Reducing Poverty and
Inequality?' R. Wade. Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment P.
Dasgupta. 'More than 100 Million Women are Missing' A.K. Sen.
'Conceptualising Environmental Collective Action: Why Gender Matters' B.
Agarwal. 'AIDS, Gender and Sexuality During Africa's Economic Crisis' B.
Schoepf. 'Feminism, the Taliban and the Politics of Counter-Insurgency' C.
Hirschkind and S. Mahmood Part 9: Development in the Twenty-First Century.
'Asia's Re-Emergence' S. Radelet and J. Sachs. 'On Missing the Boat: The
Marginalization of the Bottom Billion in the World Economy P. Collier. The
New Imperialism D. Harvey. 'From the Spectre of Marx to the Spirit of the
Law: Labor Insurgency in China' C.K. Lee. 'The Recurrent Crises of the
Gatekeeper State' F. Cooper. 'Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Non-imperial
Geohistorical Categories' F. Coronil. 'Globalization and Violence' A.
Appadurai. 'On Development, Demography and Climate Change: The End of the
Third World as we Know it?' T. Dyson