4th Edition
The Companion to Development Studies
The Companion to Development Studies is essential reading in the field of development studies. This indispensable resource offers succinct, up-to-date, and insightful chapters that reflect the diverse voices and perspectives informing the field and the dynamic interplay of theory, policy, and practice that characterises it.
This fourth edition brings together contributions from an impressive range of renowned international experts and emerging voices at the forefront of development studies to deliver engaging, interdisciplinary, and provocative insights into this challenging field. The 98 chapters spanning both theory and practice offer readers accessible discussions of the core issues, emerging trends, and key debates of the discipline. Divided into nine sections of: theories and their contentions; histories and discourses of development; actors and institutions; identities and practices; people and the planet; the economics of development; conflict, violence, and peace; the changing landscape of development; and approaches to policy and practice; this timely new text provides easy to use summaries of all the major issues encountered in this rapidly growing and changing field.
The Companion serves students and scholars across various disciplines, including development studies, geography, politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, and economics. It offers incisive analysis and critical insights, equipping those working in development policy and practice with the knowledge and understanding they need to navigate and address contemporary global challenges.
This textbook is supported by flexible, online resources for teaching and learning such as tutorial guides, key concept videos, and a filmography.
One: Theories and their Contentions
1) Theories, strategies and ideologies of development: an overview
Robert B. Potter
2) The impasse in development studies
Frans J. Schuurman
3) Dependency Theories: from ECLA to André Gunder Frank and Beyond
Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen
4) The New World Group of Dependency Scholars: Reflections of a Caribbean Avant-Garde Movement
Don D Marshall
5) World-systems theory: core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral regions
Thomas Klak
6) Neoliberalism: Different paths within a global project
Elizabeth Humphrys
7) Development as Freedom
Patricia Northover
8) Postcolonialism
Cheryl McEwan
9) Postmodernism and development
David Simon
10) Post-Development
James D Sidaway
11) Clarifying confusion between development as ‘change’ and ‘intention’
David Lewis
12) Culture and Development
Susanne Schech
13) Development Ethics
Des Gasper
Two: Histories and discourses of development
14) Development in a global-historical context
Ruth Craggs
15) Heritage and Development
Charlotte Cross and John D. Giblin
16) The Changing Language of International Development
Daniel Hammet
17) Representing Poverty
John Cameron
18) Global North and Global South
Kamna Patel
19) The shift to global development
Rory Horner
20) Enlightenment and the era of modernity
Marcus Power
21) The Washington Consensus and the Post-Washington Consensus
Ali Burak Güven
22) Concepts and Measures of Development: Beyond GDP
Jakob Dirksen
23) Global economic inequality, the great divergence, and the legacies of colonialism and enslavement
Alan Shipman, Julia Ngozi Chukwuma, and Emil Dauncey
24) Conflict Politics as Developmentalism
Raktim Ray
Three: Actors and Institutions
25) Development and Nationalism
David Neilsen
26) China-Africa relations in a changing world
Frangton Chiyemura
27) Civil society and civic space
Sarah Peck
28) Role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
Vandana Desai
29) Philanthropy, private foundations and global development
Adam Fejerskov
30) For-profit consultants and contractors in development
Emma Mawdsley
31) Corporate Social Responsibility: Development on Whose Terms?
Maha Rafi Atal
32) Gender, Ethical Consumerism and political participation
Celia Bartlett
33) Environmental Defenders and Social Movements: The Violent Realities of Resisting Extractivism
Levi Gahman, Filiberto Penados and Shelda-Jane Smith
34) Religion
Ben Jones
35) Social Capital and Development
Anthony Bebbington and Katherine Foo
36) Is there a legal right to development?
Radha D’Souza
Four: Identities and Practices
37) Children and development
Kristen E. Cheney
38) Youth: Perspectives and Paradigms in Global Development
Emil Dauncey
39) Ageing and poverty
Vandana Desai
40) Disability
Ruth Evans and Yaw Adjei-Amoako
41) Sexualities and Development
Andrea Cornwall and Vanja Hamzić
42) Rethinking Gender and Empowerment
Jane Parpart
43) Critique of feminism from the South
Madhu Purnima Kishwar
44) Identities and Intersectionality
Sara de Jong
45) A K-shaped crisis: Covid-19 and inequalities
Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira and Magali N. Alloatti
Five: People and the Planet
46) Sustainable development
Michael Redclift
47) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)
Johnathan Rigg
48) Transformations to sustainability
Lakshmi Charli-Joseph & Jesús Mario Siqueiros-García
49) The 4D framework: a holistic approach to countering climate change misinformation
John Cook
50) Decolonising human-nature relationships: Indigenous ontologies and development
Thomas Aneurin Smith
51) Water Insecurity
Catherine Fallon Grasham
52) The Blue Economy
Kate Symons
53) Fisheries and Development
Carole Sandrine White
54) Famine
Stephen Devereux
55) Renewable Energy and Development
Andrew Lawrence
56) Climate adaptation
Rónán McDermott, Karsten Schulz, Lummina Horlings, Lorenzo Squintani
57) Global Environmental Justice
Adrian Martin
Six: The Economics of development
58) Growth and Development
Augustin Kwasi Fosu
59) Aid and growth
Ines A. Ferreira
60) Foreign Aid in a Changing World
Stephen Brown
61) Aid conditionality
Jonathan R. W. Temple
62) Trade Liberalisation and Economic Development in the Developing Countries
Kalim Siddiqui
63) The Knowledge Based Economy and Digital Divisions of Labour
Mark Graham, Sanna Ojanperä, Martin Dittus
64) New Institutional Economics and Development
Philipp Lepenies
65) Development and consumption
Cecile Jackson
66) Rethinking ‘work’ from the cities of the South
William Monteith
67) Rural Livelihoods in a Context of the Global Land Rush
Annelies Zoomers and Kei Otsuki
68) Migration and Transnationalism
Katie Willis
69) The measurement of poverty
Francesco Burchi and Howard White
70) Behavioural economics and development economics
Bereket Kebede
71) Financialisation and Development
Ben Fine
Seven: Conflict, violence and peace
72) Fragile States
Tom Goodfellow
73) Resource Wars
Emma Gilberthorpe and Elissaios Papyrakis
74) Gender and conflict
Erika Forsberg
75) Violence Against Women and Girls
Cathy McIlwaine
76) Global human exploitation: Trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery
Louise Waite
77) Cities, crime and development
Paula Meth
78) Policing and development
Charlotte Cross
79) Peace-building partnerships and human security
Timothy M. Shaw and Abigail Kabandula
Eight: The changing landscape of development
80) Urban Bias
Gareth A. Jones and Stuart Corbridge
81) Studies in comparative urbanism
Colin McFarlane
82) Understanding Land as Fictitious Capital in Financial Capitalism
Sarah E. Sharma and Susanne Soederberg
83) Land grabs
Pádraig Carmody and Adwoa Ofori
84) Gentrification
Ernesto López-Morales
85) "Slums and Modernity"
Syed Haider
86) Urban Health: Sustainable Development and the Healthy City
Jennifer Cole
87) Infrastructures for Development
Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis
Nine: Approaches to policy and practice
88) How to manage for effective aid? The recent emergence of three management approaches
Brendan S Whitty
89) Participatory Development
Giles Mohan
90) Cash Transfers and HIV Prevention in Africa
Kevin Deane
91) Social Protection in Development Context
Sarah Cook and Katja Hujo
92) Universal Basic Income
Elizaveta Fouksman
93) Making Social Work Visible in Social Development in Nigeria: challenges and interconnections
Uzoma Okoye and Susan Levy
94) Technological Innovation and Development
Theo Papaioannou
95) Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)
Azadeh Akbari
96) Decolonising global health
Julia Ngozi Chukwuma
97) Navigating the institutional gaps, mismatch, and neglect: Exploring the landscape of non-communicable diseases in the developing countries
Pallavi Joshi and Dinar Kale
98) What is Vocational Education and Training for What Development?
Simon McGrath
Biography
Emil Dauncey is Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Studies at The Open University, UK.
Vandana Desai is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Robert B. Potter (1950–2014) was a leading researcher in urban and development geographies – with particular reference to Caribbean development studies – and an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was Professor Emeritus at Reading University, Head of School (2008–2012), and the recipient of the higher doctorate degree of DSc from the University of Reading for his outstanding contributions to the field.
