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The Companion to Development Studies de Vandana Desai

The Companion to Development Studies

Editat de Vandana Desai, Rob Potter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mar 2014

Relevanța acestei lucrări pentru examenele de specialitate și acreditările în domeniul relațiilor internaționale sau sociologiei este incontestabilă, fiind un text de referință în bibliografiile universitare globale. The Companion to Development Studies, aflat la a treia ediție, reprezintă o resursă enciclopedică ce reușește să sintetizeze complexitatea studiilor de dezvoltare prin contribuțiile a peste o sută de experți. Notăm cu interes modul în care editorii Vandana Desai și Rob Potter au structurat volumul în zece părți distincte, oferind o progresie logică de la bazele teoretice și istorice către provocări contemporane presante. Putem afirma că această ediție este marcată de o actualizare masivă, aducând în discuție 45 de perspective noi asupra unor subiecte precum securitatea alimentară, hydropolitica și impactul tehnologiei digitale. Alternativă la Theories and Practices of Development de Katie Willis pentru cursurile de geografie umană și politici de dezvoltare, acest volum are avantajul unei acoperiri mult mai vaste a studiilor de caz, de la economiile BRICs până la fragilitatea statelor în contextul conflictelor etnice. În contextul operei editorului, volumul completează abordările metodologice din Doing Development Research și analizele structurale din The Handbook of Displacement, făcând trecerea de la tehnica cercetării la aplicarea politicilor în teren. Reținem organizarea riguroasă a cuprinsului, care ghidează cititorul prin labirintul globalizării, urbanizării și economiei politice, oferind totodată resurse suplimentare și referințe web esențiale pentru aprofundare.

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ISBN-13: 9781444167245
ISBN-10: 1444167243
Pagini: 626
Ilustrații: 49 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables, 3 black & white halftones, 46 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 174 x 246 x 38 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Ediția:Revizuită
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Vandana Desai este o figură proeminentă în cercetarea interdisciplinară, activitatea sa concentrându-se pe intersecția dintre guvernanța urbană, gen și politicile de dezvoltare. Cu o experiență vastă în colaborarea cu ONG-uri internaționale precum WaterAid și Practical Action, ea aduce o perspectivă pragmatică asupra relațiilor dintre donatorii din Nord și beneficiarii din Sud. Cercetările sale vizează în mod special infrastructura urbană și locuințele pentru persoanele cu venituri mici, integrând teorii din sociologie și geografie pentru a influența procesele de elaborare a politicilor internaționale, aspecte reflectate în rigoarea editorială a acestui ghid.

Descriere scurtă

The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. The sections cover: the nature of development, theories and strategies of development, globalization and development, rural development, urbanization and development, environment and development, gender, health and education, the political economy of violence and insecurity, and governance and development.
This third edition has been extensively updated and contains 45 new contributions from leading authorities, dealing with pressing contemporary issues such as race and development, ethics and development, BRICs and development, global financial crisis, the knowledge based economy and digital divide, food security, GM crops, comparative urbanism, cities and crime, energy, water hydropolitics, climate change, disability, fragile states, global war on terror, ethnic conflict, legal rights to development, ecosystems services for development, just to name a few. Existing chapters have been thoroughly revised to include cutting-edge developments, and to present updated further reading and websites.
The Companion to Development Studies presents concise overviews providing a gateway to further reading and a flexible resource for teaching and learning. It has established a role as essential reading for all students of development studies, as well as those in cognate areas of geography, international relations, politics, sociology, anthropology and economics.

Cuprins

Part 1. The Nature of Development and Development Studies 1.1 Development in a Global-Historical Context 1.2 What’s in a Name? From Third World to Poor Countries 1.3 The Origins and Nature of Development Studies 1.4 The Impasse in Development Studies 1.5 Development and Economic Growth 1.6 Development and Social Welfare - Human Rights 1.7 Development as Freedom 1.8 Race and Development 1.9 Culture and Development 1.10 Ethics and Development 1.11 New Institutional Economics and Development 1.12 Measuring Development: from GDP to HDI 1.13 Poverty and Development: Definitions and Measures 1.14 The Millennium Development Goals 1.15 BRICs and Development  Part 2. Theories and Strategies of Development 2.1. Theories, Strategies and Ideologies of Development 2.2. Smith, Ricardo and the World Marketplace 1776-2011 2.3. The Enlightenment and the Era of Modernity 2.4. Dualistic and Unilinear Perspectives on Development 2.5. Neoliberalism: Globalization’s Neoconservative Enforcer of Austerity 2.6. Dependency Theories 2.7. New World Dependency Theory 2.8. World Systems Theory 2.9 Indigenous Knowledge and Development 2.10. Participatory Development 2.11 Post-Colonialism and Development 2.12 Postmodernism and Development 2.13 Post-development 2.14 Social Capital and Development  Part 3. Globalisation, Employment and Development 3.1 Globalisation: an Overview 3.2 The ‘new’ International Division of Labour 3.3 Global Shift: Industrialization and Development 3.4 Globalisation and Localisation 3.5 Trade and Industrial Policy in Developing Countries 3.6 The Knowledge-based Economy and the Digital Divisions of Labour 3.7 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Development 3.8 The Informal Economy in Cities of the South 3.9 Child Labour 3.10 Pro-poor Globalisation 3.11 Migration and Transnationalism 3.12 Diaspora and Development  Part 4 Rural Development 4.1 Rural Poverty 4.2 Rural Livelihoods 4.3 Food Security 4.4 Famines 4.5 Genetically Modified Crops and Development 4.6 Rural Co-operatives 4.7 Land Reform 4.8 Gender, Agriculture and Land Rights 4.9 The Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture  Part 5. Urbanisation and Development 5.1 Urbanization in Low- and Middle-Income Nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America 5.2 Urban Bias 5.3 Global Cities and the Production of Uneven Development 5.4 Studies in Comparative Urbanism 5.5 Prosperity or Poverty? Wealth, Inequality and Deprivation in Urban Areas 5.6 Housing the Urban Poor 5.7 Urbanisation and Environment in Low and Middle-income Countries 5.8 Transport and Urban Development 5.9 Cities, Crime and Development  Part 6. Environment and Development 6.1 Sustainable Development 6.2 International Regulation and the Environment 6.3 Climate Change and Development: An Overview 6.4 Changing Climate and African Development 6.5 Vulnerability & Disasters 6.6 Ecosystems Services for Development 6.7 Natural Resource Management: A Critical Appraisal 6.8 Water and Hydropolitics 6.9 Energy and Development 6.10 Tourism and Environment 6.11 Transport and Sustainability: Developmental Pathways  Part 7. Gender and Development 7.1 Demographic Changes and Gender 7.2 Women and the State 7.3 Gender, Families and Households 7.4 Feminism and Feminist Issues in the South 7.5 Rethinking Gender and Empowerment 7.6 Gender and Globalisation 7.7 Migrant Women in the New Economy: Understanding the Gender-Migration-Care Nexus 7.8 Women and Political Representation Shirin M. Rai 7.9 Sexualities and Development 7.10 Hegemonic Masculinities 7.11 Indigenous Fertility Control  Part 8. Health and Education 8.1 Nutritional Problems, Policies and Intervention Strategies in Developing Economies 8.2 Motherhood and Child Health 8.3 The Development Impact of HIV/AIDS 8.4 Ageing and Poverty 8.5 Health and Inequality 8.6 Disability 8.7 Social Protection in Development Context 8.8 Female Participation in Education 8.9 The Challenge of Skill Formation and Training 8.10 Development Education, Global Citizenship and International Volunteering  Part 9. Political Economy of Violence and Insecurity 9.1 Gender and Age-Based Violence 9.2 Fragile States 9.3 Refugees 9.4 Humanitarian Aid 9.5 Rights and Social Justice 9.6 Global War on Terror, Development and Civil Society 9.7 Peace-building Partnerships and Human Security 9.8 Nationalism 9.9 Ethnic Conflict and the State 9.10 Religions and Development  Part 10. Governance and Development 10.1 Foreign Aid in a Changing World 10.2 The Rising Powers as Development Donors and Partners 10.3 Aid Conditionality 10.4 Aid Effectiveness 10.5 Global Governance Issues and Current Crisis 10.6 Change Agents: A History of Hope in NGOs, Civil Society, and the 99% 10.7 Corruption and Development 10.8 Role of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) 10.9 Non-Governmental Public action Networks and Global Policy Processes 10.10 Multilateral Institutions and the Financing of Development 10.11 Challenges to the World Trade Organisation 10.12 Is there a Legal Right to Development?