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Zusatztext An ambitious and engaging book, challenging readers to go beyond simple depictions of development success or failure to examine how colonialism and capitalism are implicated in current global economic and social inequalities, and to consider alternative futures. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Brooks is a lecturer in development geography at King’s College London. His research examines connections between spaces of production and places of consumption, and particularly the geographies of economic and social change in Africa. Fieldwork has taken him to India, Papua New Guinea and across Africa. Research in Africa has included extensive investigations of markets and politics in Malawi and Mozambique as well as Chinese investment in Zambia. Klappentext A scathing indictment of the current development agenda! and an impassioned call for a new and radical approach to alleviating global poverty. Vorwort A scathing indictment of the current development agenda, and an impassioned call for a new and radical approach to alleviating global poverty. Zusammenfassung A scathing indictment of the current development agenda, and an impassioned call for a new and radical approach to alleviating global poverty. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: What’s Wrong with Development? Part I: Making the Modern World 1. Environmental Determinism and Early Human History 2. Colonializing the World 3. America: Making the Modern World Part II: Development and Change 4. Anticipating Modernity 5. The Debt Crisis and The Resource Curse 6. East Asian Tigers Part III: After Development 7. Is Africa Rising? 8. Depoliticizing Development 9. What Next? The End of Development References
List of contents
Introduction: What's Wrong with Development?
Part I: Making the Modern World
1. Environmental Determinism and Early Human History
2. Colonializing the World
3. America: Making the Modern World
Part II: Development and Change
4. Anticipating Modernity
5. The Debt Crisis and The Resource Curse
6. East Asian Tigers
Part III: After Development
7. Is Africa Rising?
8. Depoliticizing Development
9. What Next? The End of Development
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'An ambitious and engaging book, challenging readers to go beyond simple depictions of development success or failure to examine how colonialism and capitalism are implicated in current global economic and social inequalities, and to consider alternative futures.'
Katie Willis, Royal Holloway, University of London
'It is very difficult to say something new about development, but this book does just that, particularly in providing new insights on Africa: its importance in the distant and recent past, the present and into the future. The unusual combination of history and human stories makes for great reading.'
Gustavo Esteva, co-author of The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto
'What can be done to reduce poverty and spur economic development in areas that have been left behind? Brooks's engaging style and interesting nuggets of political history scattered throughout the chapters dealing with the modern period draw the reader into engaging with the important questions he asks.'
Population and Development Review
'The aid industry and African politics are examined in a holistic and critical manner that is most illuminating ... fits within a genre of accessible economics texts such as those of Joseph Stiglitz and Naomi Klein ... Andrew Brooks has hit the mark.'
New Global Studies
'Succeeds in telling the counter-narrative of 'development' by showing that more prosperity does not mean less poverty ... rich in examples and figures supporting the main argument that inequality is central to capitalist development.'
Society & Natural Resources
