1st Edition

The Development Reader

Edited By Sharad Chari, Stuart Corbridge Copyright 2008
592 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

592 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Development Reader brings together fifty-four key readings on development history, theory and policy: Adam Smith and Karl Marx meet, among others, Robert Wade, Amartya Sen and Jeffrey Sachs. It shows how debates around development have been structured by different readings of the roles played by markets, empire, nature and difference in the organization of world affairs. For example,... Read more

Part I The Object of Development, Part II Markets, Empire, Nature, Difference, Part III Reform, Revolution, Resistance, Part IV Promethean Visions, Part V Challenges to the Mainstream, Part VI The Hubris of Development, Part VII Institutions, Governance and Participation, Part VIII Globalization, Security and Well-Being, Part IX Development in the 21st Century

Biography

Sharad Chari is Lecturer in Human Geography at the London School of Economics. He works on the historical ethnography of labour, work, activism, gender, state-sanctioned racism, and development in India and South Africa. He is the author of Fraternal Capital: Peasant-workers, self-made men, and globalization in provincial India (Stanford University Press, 2004), and is working on a monograph on space, race and activism in twentieth-century South Africa.

Stuart Corbridge is Professor of Development Studies at the London School of Economics. He has written widely on economic and political change in India and the history of development thought. His most recent book (with Williams, Srivastava and Veron) is Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India (CUP, 2005).