1: Global development – making a difference? 2: Development through the ages 3: Understanding and measuring development 4: Globalisation, economics and development 5: Why we think development only happens ‘over there’ 6: Contesting the development landscape 7: Is there a future for global development?
Biography
Daniel Hammett is Senior Lecturer in political and development geography at the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg. His work focuses on the intersections of citizenship, popular geopolitics, and global development and has been published in journals including Political Geography, International Development Planning Review, Progress in Human Geography, and Citizenship Studies.
Global Development: the basics unpacks the complex and changing language of international development, providing a comprehensive guide to students new to this important area of research and practice.
Professor Jo Sharp, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews
This is the best possible introductory text to global development today. Daniel Hammett has written a highly engaging and readable book, which provides a pacy and informed analysis of development history and current issues, encompassing political economy to decolonisation.
Professor Emma Mawdsley, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
