Development Theory and Practice Critical Perspectives

About this book

This text provides a critical assessment of dominant features of development theory and practice in such areas as globalization, governance, social development, participation, feminism and postcolonialism, civil society, environment and development management. Each chapter addresses a particular approach within development by setting out the orthodoxy, and critically evaluates this before engaging more constructively with the challenges presented by contemporary development. This approach should give students a clearer understanding of the debates within development today.

Contents

Critical Perspectives on Development: An Introduction - The Political Economy of Globalisation; U.Kothari and M.Minogue - Feminist and Postcolonial Challenges to Development; U.Kothari - Social Development: Issues and Approaches; M.Green - Social Capital, Civil Society and Social Exclusion; P.Francis - Participating in Development; R.McGee - Power to the People? Good Governance and the Reshaping of the State; M.Minogue - Development Policies and Environmental Agendas; P.Woodhouse - Neo-Liberalism: The World Bank, and the New Politics of Development; P. Cammack - Orthodoxy and its Alternatives in Contemporary Development; M.Minogue and U.Kothari - Bibliography - Index

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Biography

UMA KOTHARI is Senior Lecturer in Social Development, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. - MARTIN MINOGUE is Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester.