Companion to Development Studies

Emil Dauncey is Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Studies at The Open University, UK.Vandana Desai is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.Robert B. Potter (1950–2014) was a leading researcher in urban and development geographies – with particular reference to Caribbean development studies – and an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was Professor Emeritus at Reading University, Head of School (2008–2012), and the recipient of the higher doctorate degree of DSc from the University of Reading for his outstanding contributions to the field.

• One: Theories and their Contentions 1) Theories, strategies and ideologies of development: an overviewRobert B. Potter2) The impasse in development studiesFrans J. Schuurman 3) Dependency Theories: from ECLA to André Gunder Frank and BeyondDennis Conway and Nik Heynen4) The New World Group of Dependency Scholars: Reflections of a Caribbean Avant-Garde MovementDon D Marshall5) World-systems theory: core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral regionsThomas Klak6) Neoliberalism: Different paths within a global project Elizabeth Humphrys7) Development as FreedomPatricia Northover8) PostcolonialismCheryl McEwan9) Postmodernism and developmentDavid Simon10) Post-DevelopmentJames D Sidaway11) Clarifying confusion between development as ‘change’ and ‘intention’David Lewis12) Culture and DevelopmentSusanne Schech 13) Development EthicsDes GasperTwo: Histories and discourses of development 14) Development in a global-historical contextRuth Craggs15) Heritage and DevelopmentCharlotte Cross and John D. Giblin16) The Changing Language of International DevelopmentDaniel Hammet17) Representing PovertyJohn Cameron 18) Global North and Global SouthKamna Patel19) The shift to global developmentRory Horner20) Enlightenment and the era of modernityMarcus Power21) The Washington Consensus and the Post-Washington ConsensusAli Burak Güven22) Concepts and Measures of Development: Beyond GDPJakob Dirksen23) Global economic inequality, the great divergence, and the legacies of colonialism and enslavementAlan Shipman, Julia Chukwuma, and Emil Dauncey24) Conflict Politics as DevelopmentalismRaktim RayThree: Actors and Institutions 25) Development and NationalismDavid Neilsen26) China-Africa relations in a changing worldFrangton Chiyemura27) Civil society and civic spacePeck28) Role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)Vandana Desai29) Philanthropy, private foundations and global developmentAdam Fejerskov30) For-profit consultants and contractors in developmentEmma Mawdsley31) Corporate Social Responsibility: Development on Whose Terms?Maha Rafi Atal32) Gender, Ethical Consumerism and political participationCelia Bartlett33) Environmental Defenders and Social Movements: The Violent Realities of Resisting ExtractivismLevi Gahman, Filiberto Penados and Shelda-Jane Smith34) ReligionJones35) Social Capital and DevelopmentAnthony Bebbington and Katherine Foo36) Is there a legal right to development?Radha D’SouzaFour: Identities and Practices37) Children and developmentKristen E. Cheney38) Youth: Perspectives and Paradigms in Global DevelopmentEmil Dauncey39) Ageing and povertyVandana Desai40) DisabilityRuth Evans and Yaw Adjei-Amoako41) Sexualities and DevelopmentAndrea Cornwall and Vanja Hamzić42) Rethinking Gender and EmpowermentJane Parpart43) Critique of feminism from the SouthMadhu Purnima Kishwar44) Identities and IntersectionalitySara de Jong45) A K-shaped crisis: Covid-19 and inequalitiesAna Luíza Matos de Oliveira and Magali N. Alloatti Five: People and the Planet 46) Sustainable developmentMichael Redclift47) The Sustainable Development GoalsJohnathan Rigg48) Transformations to sustainabilityLakshmi Charli-Joseph & Jesús Mario Siqueiros-García49) The 4D framework: a holistic approach to countering climate change misinformationJohn Cook50) Decolonising human-nature relationships: Indigenous ontologies and developmentThomas Aneurin Smith51) Water InsecurityCatherine Fallon Grasham52) The Blue EconomyKate Symons53) Fisheries and DevelopmentCarole White 54) FamineStephen Devereux55) Renewable Energy and DevelopmentAndrew Lawrence 56) Climate adaptationRónán McDermott, Karsten Schulz, Lummina Horlings, Lorenzo Squintani57) Global Environmental JusticeAdrian MartinSix: The Economics of development 58) Growth and DevelopmentAugustin Kwasi Fosu59) Aid and growthInes A. Ferreira 60) Foreign Aid in a Changing WorldStephen Brown 61) Aid conditionalityJonathan R. W. Temple62) Trade Liberalisation and Economic Development in the Developing CountriesKalim Siddiqui63) The Knowledge Based Economy and Digital Divisions of LabourMark Graham, Sanna Ojanperä, Martin Dittus64) New Institutional Economics and DevelopmentPhilipp Lepenies65) Development and consumptionCecile Jackson66) Rethinking ‘work’ from the cities of the SouthWilliam Monteith67) Rural Livelihoods in a Context of the Global Land RushAnnelies Zoomers and Kei Otsuki68) Migration and TransnationalismKatie Willis69) The measurement of povertyFrancesco Burchi and Howard White70) Behavioural economics and development economicsBereket Kebede71) Financialisation and DevelopmentBen FineSeven: Conflict, violence and peace 72) Fragile StatesTom Goodfellow 73) Resource WarsEmma Gilberthorpe and Elissaios Papyrakis 74) Gender and conflictErika Forsberg 75) Violence Against Women and GirlsCathy McIlwaine76) Global human exploitation: Trafficking, forced labour and modern slaveryLouise Waite77) Cities, crime and developmentPaula Meth78) Policing and development Charlotte Cross 79) Peace-building partnerships and human securityTimothy M. Shaw and Abigail KabandulaEight: The changing landscape of development 80) Urban BiasGareth A. Jones and Stuart Corbridge81) Studies in comparative urbanismColin McFarlane82) Understanding Land as Fictitious Capital in Financial CapitalismSarah E. Sharma and Susanne Soederberg 83) Land grabsPádraig Carmody and Adwoa Ofori84) GentrificationErnesto López-Morales85) Slums and ModernityHaider86) Urban Health: Sustainable Development and the Healthy CityJennifer Cole87) Infrastructures for DevelopmentStephanie Ketterer HobbisNine: Approaches to policy and practice 88) How to manage for effective aid? The recent emergence of three management approachesBrendan S Whitty89) Participatory DevelopmentGiles Mohan90) Cash Transfers and HIV Prevention in AfricaKevin Deane91) Social Protection in Development ContextSarah Cook and Katja Hujo92) Universal Basic IncomeE. Fouksman93) Making Social Work Visible in Social Development in Nigeria: challenges and interconnectionsUzoma Okoye and Susan Levy94) Technological Innovation and DevelopmentTheo Papaioannou95) Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)Azadeh Akbari96) Decolonising global healthJulia Ngozi Chukwuma 97) Navigating the institutional gaps, mismatch, and neglect: Exploring the landscape of non-communicable diseases in the developing countriesPallavi Joshi and Dinar Kale98) What is Vocational Education and Training for What Development?Simon McGrath