The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.
Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes:
This textbook will be essential reading for students of global development, political science, sociology, economics, gender studies, geography, history, anthropology, agrarian studies, international political economy, and area studies. It will also be an important resource for development researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
| ISBN: | 9780367478858 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2021 |
| Author: | Henry Veltmeyer, Paul Bowles |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 412 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Critical Development Studies |
| Genres: |
Development studies International relations Development economics and emerging economies |
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.
Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes:
This textbook will be essential reading for students of global development, political science, sociology, economics, gender studies, geography, history, anthropology, agrarian studies, international political economy, and area studies. It will also be an important resource for development researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies features in the following genres: Development studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Social and political philosophy, Political economy, Sociology, Politics and government
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies is available in Paperback
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies was written by Henry Veltmeyer, Paul Bowles and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies has 412 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Critical Development Studies series
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