Critical Reflections on Development

Informationen zum Autor Damien Kingsbury, Deakin University, AustraliaAndrew Hewett, Oxfam AustraliaChris Roche, Oxfam AustraliaSimon Fenby, adviser to the Prime Minister of Timor-LesteJohn McKay, Australian chair of the Society for International DevelopmentRohan Bastin, Deakin University, AustraliaMark McPeak, ChildFund AustraliaPaul Ronalds, Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, AustraliaCraig Thorburn, Monash University, AustraliaSue Kenny, Deakin University, AustraliaLaurel Bossen, McGill University, CanadaElizabeth Reid AO, Australian National University Klappentext Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development. Zusammenfassung Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Damien Kingsbury 1. Reconceptualising Development: the Painful Job of Thinking; Andrew Hewett & Chris Roche 2. The g7+ Group of Fragile States: Towards Improved International Engagement; Simon Fenby 3. After the Washington Consensus; John McKay 4. Civil War and the Limits of Decolonization Capitalism; Rohan Bastin 5. The Good Governance-Human Rights Nexus; Damien Kingsbury 6. Reconceptualising International Aid and Development NGOs; Paul Ronalds 7. A Trojan Horse? International Development Agencies Embrace Business Practices and Mental Models; Mark McPeak 8. Seeing the Forest for the Carbon: How Might REDD+ Schemes Impact Forest-dependent Communities?; Craig Thorburn 9. The Turn to Civil Society?; Sue Kenny 10. Feminist Reflection on the Declarations of Paris and Dili; Elizabeth Reid 11. Reproduction and Real Property in Rural China: Three Decades of Development and Discrimination; Laurel Bossen Conclusion; Damien Kingsbury...

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• Authors: D.g. Kingsbury
• Assisted by: Kingsbury (Editor), D Kingsbury (Editor), D. Kingsbury (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349351039
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35103-9
• No. of pages: 260
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