Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions / Jan Nederveen Pieterse.

By: Nederveen Pieterse, JanMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)Publication details: Los Angeles : London : SAGE, 2010Edition: 2nd edDescription: xviii, 252 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781412945141 (hbk.); 1412945143 (hbk.); 1412945151 (pbk.); 9781412945158 (pbk.)Subject(s): Development economics | Economic development -- Sociological aspects | Development economics | Economic development -- Sociological aspectsDDC classification: 338.9001
Contents:
1. Trends in development theory -- 2. Dilemmas of development discourse: The crisis of developmentalism and the comparative method -- 3. development of development theory: Towards critical globalism -- 4. Delinking or globalization? -- 5. The cultural turn in development: Questions of power -- 6. My paradigm or yours? Variations on alternative development -- 7. After post-development -- 8. Equity and growth revisited: From human development to social development -- 9. Critical holism and the Tao of development -- 10. Digital capitalism and development: The unbearable lightness of ICT4D -- 11. Futures of development -- 12. Twenty-first-century globalization and development.
Summary: This is a long awaited second edition of this popular exploration of development theory, from one of the leading figures in the field, Jan Nederveeden Pieterse.
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Previous ed.: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Trends in development theory -- 2. Dilemmas of development discourse: The crisis of developmentalism and the comparative method -- 3. development of development theory: Towards critical globalism -- 4. Delinking or globalization? -- 5. The cultural turn in development: Questions of power -- 6. My paradigm or yours? Variations on alternative development -- 7. After post-development -- 8. Equity and growth revisited: From human development to social development -- 9. Critical holism and the Tao of development -- 10. Digital capitalism and development: The unbearable lightness of ICT4D -- 11. Futures of development -- 12. Twenty-first-century globalization and development.

This is a long awaited second edition of this popular exploration of development theory, from one of the leading figures in the field, Jan Nederveeden Pieterse.

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