The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. The sections cover: the nature of development, theories and strategies of development, globalization and development, rural development, urbanization and development, environment and development, gender, health and education, the political economy of violence and insecurity, and governance and development.
This third edition has been extensively updated and contains 45 new contributions from leading authorities, dealing with pressing contemporary issues such as race and development, ethics and development, BRICs and development, global financial crisis, the knowledge based economy and digital divide, food security, GM crops, comparative urbanism, cities and crime, energy, water hydropolitics, climate change, disability, fragile states, global war on terror, ethnic conflict, legal rights to development, ecosystems services for development, just to name a few. Existing chapters have been thoroughly revised to include cutting-edge developments, and to present updated further reading and websites.
The Companion to Development Studies presents concise overviews providing a gateway to further reading and a flexible resource for teaching and learning. It has established a role as essential reading for all students of development studies, as well as those in cognate areas of geography, international relations, politics, sociology, anthropology and economics.
Contents
1.1 Development in a Global-Historical Context
1.2 The Third World, Developing Countries, the South, Emerging Markets and Rising Powers
1.3 The Nature of Development Studies
1.4 The Impasse in Development Studies
1.5 Development and Economic Growth
1.6 Development and Social Welfare/Human Rights
1.7 Development as Freedom
1.8 Race and Development Denise
1.9 Culture and Development
1.10 Ethics and Development
1.11 New Institutional Economics and Development
1.12 Measuring Development: From GDP to the HDI and Wider Approaches
1.13 The Measure of Poverty
1.14 The Millennium Development Goals
1.15 BRICS and Development
2.1 Theories, Strategies and Ideologies of Development: An Overview
2.2 Smith, Ricardo and the World Marketplace, 1776 to 2012: Back to the Future and Beyond
2.3 Enlightenment and the Era of Modernity
2.4 Dualistic and Unilinear Concepts of Development
2.5 Neoliberalism: Globalization’s Neoconservative Enforcer of Austerity
2.6 Dependency Theories: From ECLA to André Gunder Frank and Beyond
2.7 The New World Group of Dependency Scholars: Reflections of a Caribbean Avant-Garde Movement
2.8 World-Systems Theory: Core, Semi-Peripheral and Peripheral Regions
2.9 Indigenous Knowledge and Development
2.10 Participatory Development
2.11 Postcolonialism
2.12 Postmodernism and Development
2.13 Post-Development 2.14 Social Capital and Development
3.1 Globalization: An Overview 3.2 The New International Division of Labour 3.3 Global Shift: Industrialization and Development 3.4 Globalization/Localization and Development 3.5 Trade and Industrial Policy in Development Countries 3.6 The Knowledge Based Economy and Digital Division of Labour 3.7 Corporate Social Responsibility and Development 3.8 The Informal Economy in Cities of the South 3.9 Child Labour
3.10 Migration and Transnationalism
3.11 Dispora and Development
Part 4: Rural Development
4.1 Rural Poverty 4.2 Rural Livelihoods in a Context of a New Scarcities
4.3 Food Security
4.4 Famine
4.5 Genetically Modified Crops and Development
4.6 Rural Co-Operatives: A New Millennium? 4.7 Land Reform 4.8 Gender, Agriculture and Land Rights 4.9 The Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture
5.1 Urbanization in Low and Middle Income Nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America David Satterthwaite
5.3 Global Cities and the Production of Uneven Development
5.2 Urban Bias
5.4 Studies in Comparative Urbanization
5.5 Prosperity or Poverty? Wealth, Inequality and Deprivation in Urban Areas
5.6 Housing the Urban Poor
5.7 Urbanization and Environment in Low and Middle Income Nations
5.8 Transport and Urban Development Eduardo
5.9 Cities, Crime and Development
6.1 Sustainable Development
6.2 International Regulations and the Environment
6.3 Climate Change and Development: An Overview
6.4 A Changing Climate and African Development
6.5 Vulnerability and Disasters
6.6 Ecosystem Services and Development
6.7 Natural Resource Management: A Critical Appraisal
6.8 Water and Hydropolitics
6.9 Energy and Development
6.10 Tourism and Environment
6.11 Transport and Sustainability: Developmental Pathways Part
7.1 Demographic Change and Gender
7.2 Women and the State
7.3 Gender, Families and Households
7.4 Feminism and Feminist Issues in the Global South
7.5 Rethinking Gender and Empowerment
7.6 Gender and Globalization
7.7 Migrant Woman in the New Economy: Understanding the Gender-Migration-Care Nexus
7.8 Woman and Political Representation
7.9 Sexuality and Development
7.10 Indigenous Fertility Control
Part 8: Health and Education
8.1 Nutritional Problems, Policies and Intervention Strategies in Developing Economies
8.2 Motherhood, Mortality and Healthcare
8.3 The Development Impacts of HIV/AIDS
8.5 Health Disparity: From ‘Health Inequality’ to ‘Health Inequity’: The Move to a Moral Paradigm in Global Health Disparity
8.6 Disability
8.7 Social Protection in Development Context
8.8 Female Participation in Education 8.9 The Challenge of Skill Formation and Training
8.10 Development Education, Global Citizenship and International Volunteering
Part 9: Political Economy of Violence and Insecurity
9.1 Gender and Aged Based Violence
9.2 Fragile States
9.3 Refugees
9.4 Humanitarian Aid
9.5 Global War on Terror, Development and Civil Society
9.6 Peace-Building Partnership and Human Security
9.7 Nationalism
9.8 Ethnic Conflict and the State
9.9 Religions and Development Part
10.1 Foreign Aid in a Changing World
10.2 The Rising Powers as Development Donors and Partners 10.3 Aid Conditionality
10.4 Aid Effectiveness 10.5 Global Governance Issues and the Current Crisis
10.6 Change Agents: A History of Hope in NGOs, Civil Society and the 99%
10.7 Corruption and Development
10.8 The Role of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
10.9 Non-Government Public Action Networks and Global Policy Processes
10.10 Multilateral Institutions: ‘Developing Countries’ and ‘Emerging Markets’ – Stability or Change?
10.11 Is There a Legal Right to Development
