Politics of Development: a Survey

Introduction / Heloise Weber -- The politics of governing development / Christina Rojas and Shannon Kindornay -- Race and development / Robbie Shilliam -- Politics of indigenous development / Elizabeth Strakosch -- Gender and development / Lucy Ferguson, Juanita Elias and Thomas Wanner -- Social movements and the politics of development / Martin Weber -- Religion and development / Jeff Haynes -- The security-development nexus and fragile states : a critical political analysis / Kamil Shah -- The environmental politics of development / Martin Weber -- Politics of neoliberal development : Washington consensus and the post-Washington consensus / Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho -- Charter cities and development : examining a paradox / Michael Spann -- The politics of migration and the North American free trade agreement / Samid Suliman -- Politics of the Agrarian question / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi.

The Politics of Development: A Survey provides an overview of the intrinsically political relations of development. It brings together essays written by experts in the politics of development and covers a range of significant and topical concerns: gender, race, indigenous development, social movements, religion, security, environmental concerns, colonialism and its legacies, migration, the political economy of development, trajectories in urbanization, and the agrarian question. It introduces and examines key concepts and approaches which have underpinned development, as well as the struggles

"This title provides an overview of the intrinsically political relations of development. It brings together essays written by experts in the politics of development and covers a range of topical concerns: gender, race, indigenous development, social movements, religion, security, the environment, colonialism, migration, the political economy of development, urbanization, and the agrarian question. It examines key concepts and approaches which have underpinned development, as well as the struggles it has engendered historically, and in contemporary contexts. This volume offers alternative analytical frameworks for understanding the relationships around development and inequalities"--

"This title provides an overview of the intrinsically political relations of development. It brings together essays written by experts in the politics of development and covers a range of topical concerns: gender, race, indigenous development, social movements, religion, security, the environment, colonialism, migration, the political economy of development, urbanization, and the agrarian question. It examines key concepts and approaches which have underpinned development, as well as the struggles it has engendered historically, and in contemporary contexts. This volume offers alternative analytical frameworks for understanding the relationships around development and inequalities"--