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 starting point the multiple crises – economic, political, social and environmental – of the dominant current global capitalist system. The chapters collectively document and analyze these crises and the need to find alternatives to the system(s) that generate them. To do so, analyses of class, gender and empire are placed at the centre of discussion, in contrast to markets, liberalization and convergence, which characterize mainstream development discourse. Each contributor supplements their overview with a guide to the critical development studies literature on the topic, thereby providing scholars and students not only with a precis of the key issues, but also a signpost to further readings.
This is an important resource for academics, researchers, policymakers and professionals in the areas of development studies, political science, sociology, economics, gender studies, history, anthropology, agrarian studies, international relations and international political economy.
Table of Contents:
Critical Development Studies: An Introduction
Henry Veltmeyer and Paul Bowles
I. Reflections on History
Chapter 1. History from a critical development perspective Kari Levitt:
II. Thinking Critically about Development
Chapter 2. Critical development theory: Results and prospects Ronaldo Munck
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Chapter 3. Thinking capitalist development beyond Eurocentrism Alf Nilsen
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Chapter 4. Development theory: the Latin American pivot Cristóbal Kay
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Chapter 5. Postdevelopment and other critiques of the roots of development Eduardo Gudynas
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Chapter 6. Development in question: the feminist perspective Fernanda Wanderley
III. Capitalism, Imperialism and Globalization: Implications for Development
Chapter 7. The world systems perspective Salvatore Babones
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Chapter 8. The Central Contradictions of Capitalism and Capitalist Crises Berch Berberoglu
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Chapter 9. Imperialism, Capitalism and Development James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer
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Chapter 10. Critical globalization studies and development S.A. Hamed Hosseini and Barry K. Gills
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Chapter 11. The end of globalization Walden Bello
IV. Poverty, Inequalities and Development Dynamics
Chapter 12. The poverty and development problematic Joe Tharamangalam
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Chapter 13. Poverty analysis through a gender lens: a brief history of feminist contributions in international development Naila Kabeer
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Chapter 14. Gender inequalities at work: explanations with examples from Cambodia, the Philippines and China Fiona MacPhail
V. Policy Configurations for Development: International, National and Local
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Chapter 15. The Post-Washington consensus Elisa Van Waeyenberge
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Chapter 16. International cooperation for development Peter Kragelund
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Chapter 17. The developmental state and late industrialization: still feasible—and desirable? Paul Bowles
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Chapter 18. Local economic development and microcredit Milford Bateman
V. Class and Development
Chapter 19. Class analysis and development Henry Veltmeyer
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Chapter 20. Class dynamics of the global capitalist system Berch Berberoglu
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Chapter 21. The making of the migrant working class in China Pun Ngai
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Chapter 22. Class struggle and resistance in Latin America Susan Spronk
VI. Agrarian Change and Spatial Reconfigurations
Chapter 23. Contemporary dynamics of agrarian change Cristóbal Kay
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Chapter 24. The global food regime Haroon Akram-Lodhi
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Chapter 25. The migration-development nexus Raúl Delgado Wise
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Chapter 26. Urban development in the global south Charmain Levy
VII. Resources, Energy and the Environment
Chapter 27. Capitalism versus the environment Darcy Tetreault
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Chapter 28. Climate change and development Marcus Taylor
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Chapter 29. Extractive capitalism and subterranean resistances Raúl Zibechi
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Chapter 30. Popular sustainable development, or ecological economics from below David Barkin
IX. The BRICS as the new ‘development giants’
Chapter 31. Brazil: from the margins to the centre? Ana Garcia and Miguel Borba de Sá
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Chapter 32. India: Critical issues of a ‘tortuous transition’ John Harriss
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Chapter 33. Interrogating the China model of development Alvin So and Yin Wah Chu
X. The Search for a New Model: Rethinking development in Latin America
Chapter 34. Rethinking Latin America: Towards new development paradigms Ronaldo Munck
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Chapter 35. Peasant alternatives to neoliberalism Leandro Vergara-Camus
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Chapter 36. Socialism and development: A Latin American perspective Claudio Katz
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Chapter 37. Confronting the capitalist hydra: the Zapatistas reflect on the storm that is upon us Sergio Rodriguéz Lascano
