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Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North, is a provocative, engaging and interesting collection of real-world case studies in development and globalization focusing on under-emphasized threats to growth and human welfare worldwide. Created by two of America's top development sociologists, it targets undergraduates, graduates, academics and development professionals. Crises such as falling state capacity, declining technological innovation, increasing class inequality and persisting gender inequality are considered, along with their economic and social consequences.
List of contents
1.Crisis in Development – How development lives and dies, Samuel Cohn and Rae Blumberg 2. Crisis of International Development and the Case of Haiti: Making of an outer periphery, Robert Fatton, Jr. 3. Why Cutting Taxes Does Not Increase Employment – Or why shrinking the state does not provide compensating economic development, Samuel Cohn 4. State and Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia: Advantage of an ancient civilization, Harold R. Kerbo 5. Does a Post-Scarcity World Mean an End to Development?, Herman Mark Schwartz 6.(Pro)Creating a Crisis? Gender discrimination, sex ratios and their implications for the developing world, Abigail Weitzman 7.Gender, Development and the Environment: Female Empowerment and the Creation of Sustainable Societies, Stephen Scanlan 8. A Walk on the Wild Side of Gender, War and Development in Afghanistan and Northern Uganda, Rae Blumberg 9. Zimbabwe: A case study in bipolar development, Lorna Lueker Zukas 10. Advancing While Losing: Indigenous land claims and development in Argentina, Matthias vom Hau 11.What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About the Global in North American Higher Education, Richard Handler 12. Landmines and Sustainability: Remaking the World Through Global Citizenship, Activism, Research and Collaborative Mine Action, P. Preston Reynolds
About the author
Rae Lesser Blumberg is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia.
Samuel Cohn is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University.
Summary
Development in Crisis is a collection of real-world case studies on two crises of development in the Global South and North: the undercutting of state capacity and the disempowerment of women. Edited by two of America’s top development sociologists, the volume shows the profound human impact of these twin threats.
