Critical reflections on development

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Critical reflections on development

edited by Damien Kingsbury

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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