Development Theory

Second Edition

Jan Nederveen Pieterse - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Other Titles in:
Development Studies | Politics of Developing Countries | Social Change & Modernization

July 2010 | 272 pages | SAGE South Asia

This is the second edition of this successful book. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the book:

- Situates students in the expanding field of development theory
- Provides an unrivalled guide to the strengths and weaknesses of competing theoretical approaches
- Explains key concepts
- Examines the shifts in theory
- Offers an agenda for the future

In this book, the author brings a huge range of experience and knowledge about the relationship between the economically advanced and the emerging and developing nations.

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

Trends in Development Theory

Dilemmas of Development Discourse: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method

The Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical Globalism

Delinking or Globalization?

The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power

My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development

After Post-Development

Equity and Growth Revisited: From Human Development to Social Development

Critical Holism and the Tao of Development

Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D

Futures of Development

Twenty-First Century Globalization and Development

Reference

Index

This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses

Andrea Cornwall

Institute of Development Studies, The University of Sussex

This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies.

Keith Griffin

Dept of Economics, University of California at Riverside

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Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural anthropology. He was previously at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a part-time chair at Maastricht University. He currently focuses on new trends in twenty-first-century globalization and the implications of economic crisis. He has been visiting a professor in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, India,... More About Author

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