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Development Theory : deconstructions/reconstructions / by Jan Nederveen Pieterse

By: Publication details: New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd, 2010Description: 252p.; 24cmISBN:
  • 9788132105657
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9001 NED
Contents:
Chapter 1: Trends in Development Theory Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Development Discourse: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method Chapter 3: The Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical Globalism Chapter 4: Delinking or Globalization? Chapter 5: The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power Chapter 6: My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development Chapter 7: After Post-Development Chapter 8: Equity and Growth Revisited: From Human Development to Social Development Chapter 9: Critical Holism and the Tao of Development Chapter 10: Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D Chapter 11: Futures of Development Chapter 12: Twenty-First-Century Globalization and Development
Summary: Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the Second Edition of this successful 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, developing nations. (Source:https://sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/development-theory/toc)
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Chapter 1: Trends in Development Theory
Chapter 2: Dilemmas of Development Discourse: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method
Chapter 3: The Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical Globalism
Chapter 4: Delinking or Globalization?
Chapter 5: The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power
Chapter 6: My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development
Chapter 7: After Post-Development
Chapter 8: Equity and Growth Revisited: From Human Development to Social Development
Chapter 9: Critical Holism and the Tao of Development
Chapter 10: Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D
Chapter 11: Futures of Development
Chapter 12: Twenty-First-Century Globalization and Development

Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the Second Edition of this successful 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, developing nations.
(Source:https://sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/development-theory/toc)

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