1st Edition

Recognition and Redistribution Beyond International Development

Edited By Heloise Weber, Mark T. Berger Copyright 2009
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts of the politics of development from the perspective of non-state centred and non-state centric approaches. The authors offer critical reinterpretations of historical experiences of development... Read more
  1. Introduction: Beyond International Development  Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber
  2. Keeping the World Safe for Primary Colors: Area Studies, Development Studies, International Studies, and the Vicissitudes of Nation-Building  Mark T. Berger
  3. Social Regulation in the Time of War: Constituting the Current Crisis  Shelley Feldman
  4. On the Critique of the Subject of Development: Beyond Proprietary and Methodological Individualism  Martin Weber
  5. 'Failed States' and 'State Failure': Threats or Opportunities?  Morten Boas and Kathleen M. Jennings
  6. From the Politics of Development to the Challenges of Globalization  Jennifer Bair
  7. Taming Corporations or Buttressing Market-Led Development? A Critical Assessment of the Global Compact  Susanne Soederberg
  8. A Global Knowledge Bank? The World Bank and Bottom-Up Efforts to Reinforce Neoliberal Development Perspectives in the Post-Washington Consensus Era  Dieter Plehwe
  9. Rethinking the Global Production of Uneven Development  Marcus Taylor
  10. Re-Envisioning Global Development: Conceptual and Methodological Issues  Sandra Halperin
  11. A Political Analysis of the Formal Comparative Method: Historicizing the Globalization and Development Debate  Heloise Weber
  12. International Political Economy/Development Otherwise  Cristina Rojas
  13. The Poverty of the Global Order  Dia Da Costa and Philip Mcmichael
  14. Conclusion: Towards Recognition and Redistribution in Global Politics  Heloise Weber and Mark T. Berger

Biography

Heloise Weber is Lecturer in International Relations and Development, School of Political Science and International Relations, University of Queensland.

Mark T. Berger teaches in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California).