The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies

"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 characterize 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: 18 new chapters including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health; Expanded global coverage, including new chapters on South Africa, North Africa and the Gulf Arab states; A new section on Resistance and Alternatives; Additional pedagogical features, including a glossary of key terms, discussion questions, and expanded guides for further reading. 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 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 characterize 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: 18 new chapters including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health; Expanded global coverage, including new chapters on South Africa, North Africa and the Gulf Arab states; A new section on Resistance and Alternatives; Additional pedagogical features, including a glossary of key terms, discussion questions, and expanded guides for further reading. 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- Front Cover -- The essential guide to critical development studies -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the authors -- Critical development studies: an introduction -- The geneology of critical thinking in development -- Themes and issues -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Reflections on history -- Chapter 1: History from a critical development perspective -- Origins of the development agenda -- The development project takes shape -- The right to development -- The nation state, capitalism and development -- The contradictions of financialization -- A reconfiguration of international power relations -- Capitalism in the current conjuncture of neoliberal globalization -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Thinking critically about development -- Chapter 2: Critical development theory: results and prospects -- Marx and development -- Leninism and development -- Socialism and underdevelopment -- Post-development -- References -- Chapter 3: Thinking capitalist development beyond Eurocentrism -- Bringing capitalism back in - but how? -- Chibber versus Chakrabarty -- Chibber in the Eurocentric tunnel of time? -- A possible Marxist approach -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Development theory: the Latin American pivot -- Structuralist theory of development -- Dependency theory -- Neostructuralism and alternative development -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Post-development and other critiques of the roots of development -- Post-development as critique -- Post-development as critique and a space for alternatives -- Reactions and constancy in relation to post-development -- Rethinking critical development studies -- Levels of critical development studies -- A toolbox for the critical analysis of the roots of development -- References