Development Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism

   By Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert, Andreas Novy

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within a globalized world. The main argument put forward is that current mainstream analyses...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. International Handbook of Migration Studies

   Edited by Steven J. Gold, Stephanie J. Nawyn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The current era is marked by an unparalleled level of human migration, the consequence of both recent and long-term political, economic, cultural, social, demographic and technological developments. Despite increased efforts to limit its size and consequences, migration has wide-ranging impacts...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Evaluating Communication for Development

   A Framework for Social Change

   By June Lennie, Jo Tacchi

   Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Social Development

   Critical Themes and Perspectives

   Edited by Manohar S. Pawar, David R. Cox

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Gender, Development and Environmental Governance

   Theorizing Connections

   By Seema Arora-Jonsson

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. The African-Asian Divide

   Analyzing Institutions and Accumulation in Kenya

   By Paul Vandenberg

   Series: New Political Economy

   Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya by the African and Asian (Indian) communities. Using a new...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Development Through Bricolage

   Rethinking Institutions for Natural Resource Management

   By Frances Cleaver

   Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource management (e.g. Water User Associations, Irrigation Committees, Forest Management Councils) not work as planners intended?...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

   Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
9. The Capability Approach

   Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Francesca Panzironi, Katharine Gelber

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity

    Lessons from Cuba

    By Julia Wright

    When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and – up till now – only systematic and empirical study to come...

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge