Critical Reflections on Development

2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-35103-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kingsbury, D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Damien Kingsbury 1. Reconceptualising Development: the Painful Job of Thinking; Andrew Hewett & Chris Roche 2. The g7+ Group of Fragile States: Towards Improved International Engagement; Simon Fenby 3. After the Washington Consensus; John McKay 4. Civil War and the Limits of Decolonization Capitalism; Rohan Bastin 5. The Good Governance-Human Rights Nexus; Damien Kingsbury 6. Reconceptualising International Aid and Development NGOs; Paul Ronalds 7. A Trojan Horse? International Development Agencies Embrace Business Practices and Mental Models; Mark McPeak 8. Seeing the Forest for the Carbon: How Might REDD+ Schemes Impact Forest-dependent Communities?; Craig Thorburn 9. The Turn to Civil Society?; Sue Kenny 10. Feminist Reflection on the Declarations of Paris and Dili; Elizabeth Reid 11. Reproduction and Real Property in Rural China: Three Decades of Development and Discrimination; Laurel Bossen Conclusion; Damien Kingsbury

Über Autor(innen)

Damien Kingsbury, Deakin University, Australia
Andrew Hewett, Oxfam Australia
Chris Roche, Oxfam Australia
Simon Fenby, adviser to the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste
John McKay, Australian chair of the Society for International Development
Rohan Bastin, Deakin University, Australia

Mark McPeak, ChildFund Australia
Paul Ronalds, Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, Australia
Craig Thorburn, Monash University, Australia
Sue Kenny, Deakin University, Australia
Laurel Bossen, McGill University, Canada

Elizabeth Reid AO, Australian National University