Synopses & Reviews
In recent years there has been considerable rethinking of the whole concept of development, including a growing awareness of its gender, cultural and environmental dimensions, and the impact of globalization. The contributors to this volume seek to extend these debates to a more fundamental level, tackling major issues and transcending those critiques of development which simply engage in a blanket dismissal of the whole enterprise. Instead they offer innovative ways of re-engaging with a reality that, despite globalization, is very much still a dimension of our era.
About the Author
Ronaldo Munck is at the University of Liverpool. Denis O'Hearn is at Queen's University, Belfast.
Table of Contents
About the Contributors
Preface
1. The Myth of Development: A Critique of a Eurocentric Discourse - Vincent Tucker
Part 1: Critical Perspectives
2. On Oppositional Postmodernism - Boaventura de Sousa Santos
3. Development and the Locations of Eurocentrism - Ziauddin Sardar
4. Critical Holism and the Tao of Development - Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Part 2: Political Economy
5. Reintegrating Production and Consumption, or Why Political Economy Still Matters - Diane Perrons
6. Tigers and Transnational Corporations: Pathways from the Periphery? - Denis O'Hearn
7. The Place of Development in Theories of Imperialism and Globalization - Bob Sutcliffe
Part 3: Polemical Perspectives
8. Is it Possible to Build a Sustainable World? - Richard Douthwaite
9. Cultural politics and (post) Development Paradigm(s) - G.H. Fagan
10. Deconstructing Development Discourses: of Impasses, Alternatives and Politics - Ronaldo Munck
Index