Introduction
Chapter 1 The Idea of Development and Modernisation
Chapter 2 Early Critiques: Dependency, World Systems and Alternative Theories of Development
Chapter 3 The Neoliberal Revolution in Development: Participation, Power and Poverty
Chapter 4 Impacts of Neoliberalism and the Revival of Modernisation?
Chapter 5 The Role of the State: "Developmental States", Geopolitics, Industrialisation and Security
Chapter 6 Deconstructing Development: Postmodernism and Decoloniality
Chapter 7 Aid, Development and South–South Cooperation?
Chapter 8 ICT4D: Information Technology for Development?
Chapter 9 "The Resource Curse": Land, Wealth and Politics
Chapter 10 Urbanisation and Development: Generative Cities or Slumification?
Chapter 11 Rural Development and Climate: Crisis and Transcendence?
Chapter 12 Getting to or After Development?
Biography
Pádraig Carmody is Associate Professor in Geography, Head of Department, Fellow and director of the Masters in Development Practice at Trinity College Dublin and Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His research centres on the political economy of globalisation and economic restructuring in Southern and Eastern Africa. He has published in a variety of journals, such as Economic Geography, World Development and Political Geography, amongst others. He has published seven books. The second edition of his New Scramble for Africa has recently been published. He sits of the boards of the Journal of the Tanzanian Geographical Society, African Geographical Review, Political Geography and Geoforum, where he was previously editor-in-chief. He is currently an associate editor of the journal Transnational Corporations, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
"This book builds some of the most important bridges between the intellectual work that so badly needs to be in the centre of our discourse on all aspects of development – global hunger, trade, development, urbanisation and the pre-crisis need to link economy, ecology and a global ethics. Its inter-disciplinary character will be particularly welcomed by students anxious to move from good scholarship into the most practical of applications, in both the short term and a hopefully sustainable future. Above all, I welcome it in its challenge to inevitabilities of thought and practice that need to be questioned, and it is a real contribution in that sense to the pluralist scholarship we need."
President Michael D. Higgins, Republic of Ireland
