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Zusatztext "This Guide invaluably fills a vacuum in the literature. Across its nearly forty chapters! it provides the highest level of scholarship and knowledge around the history! content and scope of critical development studies! covering both material and intellectual developments in a reader-friendly fashion for researchers! students and policymakers alike." - Ben Fine! Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies! University of London! UK"We have not reached the end of history but the story of Progress! its errors and criticisms is the most important one in social science. Here 37 experts have both charted and navigated an extensive archipelago of ideas to produce this guidebook. Not only will teachers and students find it indispensable but so also will everyone currently critical of means to the ends of the world's Sustainable Development Goals." - Barbara Harriss-White! Emeritus Professor of Development Studies! Oxford University and Visiting Professor! Jawaharlal Nehru University! India."The Essential Guide presents clear! historically contextualised genealogies of major trends in development theory! and problematises them with critical alternatives. Feminist theory! counter narratives such as buen vivir ('living well') and discursive analyses of Development help to show the limitations of mainstream development theory and neoliberal approaches." - Andrea Nightingale! Chair?of Rural Development in the Global South! Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences! Sweden"The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies! edited by Henry Veltmeyer and Paul Bowles! is the comprehensive product and theoretical culmination of some six decades of critical research on development and underdevelopment! from Paul Baran's The Political Economy of Growth (1957) to the present. Bringing together the analyses of many of the world's leading analysts in this area! it explains how successive waves of liberal and neoliberal developmentalism have largely failed to address the complex problems of the global South and the persistent realities of imperialism and unequal exchange. In the twenty-first century these issues have proven more important than ever! making this volume an invaluable contribution to the understanding of the epochal crises and global transformations taking place in our time." - John Bellamy Foster! editor! Monthly Review! USA"the book is highly recommended for activists! researchers! students and teachers of international development at all levels! especially those who seek a comprehensive and authoritative guide to central themes! theories and research in critical development studies. The book's theoretical diversity and high-profile contributors! alongside its wide-ranging scope! emancipatory goals and use of accessible language! make it an excellent candidate as a textbook and an essential addition to any collection of work on critical development studies." - Efe Can Gurcan! Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement! 2018 Informationen zum Autor Henry Veltmeyer is Senior Research Professor in Development Studies at Universidad de Autónoma de Zacatecas! Mexico! and Professor Emeritus in International development Studies at Saint Mary's University! Canada.Paul Bowles is Professor of Economics and International Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia! Canada. Zusammenfassung In recent years! much mainstream development discourse has sought to co-opt and neutralize key concepts relating to empowerment! participation! gender! sustainability and inclusivity in order to serve a market-driven! neoliberal agenda. Critical development studies now play a crucial role in combatting this by analyzing the systemic changes needed to transform the current world to one where economic and social justice and environmental integrity prevail.The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies takes as its ...
