2nd Edition
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies
The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies provides an up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the field, challenging mainstream development discourse and the assumptions that underlie it.
Critical development studies lays bare the economic, political, social, and environmental crises that characterise the current global capitalist system, proposing instead systemic change and different pathways for moving beyond capitalism into a new world of genuine progress where economic and social justice and ecological integrity prevail. In this book, the authors challenge market-driven, neoliberal development agendas, incorporating analyses of class, gender, race, and the dynamics of uneven capitalist development. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition includes:
• 18 new chapters, including on topics such as philanthrocapitalism, race, the energy transition, Indigenous resistance and resilience, and global health
• Expanded global coverage, including new chapters on South Africa, North Africa, and the Gulf Arab states
• A new section on resistance and alternatives
• Additional pedagogical features, including a glossary of key terms, discussion questions, and expanded guides for further reading.
This textbook will be essential reading for students of global development, political science, sociology, economics, gender studies, geography, history, anthropology, agrarian studies, international political economy, and area studies. It will also be an important resource for development researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
CRITICAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction to Critical Development Studies: Four Characteristics with Illustrations from Seven Decades
Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer
PART 1: HISTORY AS DEVELOPMENT
2. Unravelling the Canvas of History
Kari Polanyi Levitt
PART 2: THINKING CRITICALLY ABOUT DEVELOPMENT
3. Critical Development Theory: Results and Prospects
Ronaldo Munck
4. Race in/and Development
Robtel Neajai Pailey
5. Development Theory: The Latin American Pivot
Cristóbal Kay
6. Postdevelopment and Other Critiques of Development
Eduardo Gudynas
7. Feminist Contributions to Critical Development Studies
Fernanda Wanderley
PART 3: SYSTEM DYNAMICS: CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION
8. Capitalism and Crises
Radhika Desai
9. Development, Capitalism, Imperialism, Globalisation: A Tale of Four Concepts
Henry Veltmeyer
10. Globalisation Versus Development: Beyond Dualism
S.A. Hamed Hosseini and Barry K. Gills
11. Philanthrocapitalism and Development
Andrew Mushita and Carol Thompson
12. The Migration-Development Nexus in the Neoliberal Era
Raúl Delgado Wise
PART 4: POLICY CONFIGURATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT
13. The Post-Washington Consensus
Elisa Van Waeyenberge
14. International Cooperation for Development
Peter Kragelund
15. The Developmental State, Globalisation and Structural Transformation
Paul Bowles
16. Local Economic Development, Microcredit and Financial Inclusion
Milford Bateman
PART 5: INSIDE THE BRICS
17. Brazil: Development Strategies and Peripheral Conditions
Ana Garcia and Miguel Borba de Sá
18. India: Critical Issues of a ‘Tortuous Transition’
John Harriss
19. Interrogating the China Model of Development
Yin-Wah Chu and Alvin Y. So
20. South Africa: An Economy of Extremes
Sam Ashman
PART 6: POVERTY, INEQUALITIES AND DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS
21. Development: Class Matters
Henry Veltmeyer
22. The Dynamics of Poverty Production: A Political Economy Perspective for the SDGs Era
Alberto D. Cimadamore
23. Poverty Analysis through a Gender Lens
Naila Kabeer
24. Women, Work and Gender Inequalities: With Illustrations from Cambodia and China
Fiona MacPhail
25. Health Inequalities and Development in a Global Context
Ted Schrecker
PART 7: CAPITALISM, LABOUR AND THE STATE
26. Labour and Development
Benjamin Selwyn
27. The Triangle of Underdevelopment: Technology, Patents and Monopoly
Edgar Záyago Lau
28. The Making of the New Chinese Working Class
Pun Ngai
29. Labour and Development in Latin America
Susan Spronk
30. Class and State Formation in the Gulf Arab States
Adam Hanieh
PART 8: DYNAMICS OF AGRARIAN CHANGE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
31. Contemporary Dynamics of Agrarian Change
Cristóbal Kay
32. Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions
Haroon Akram-Lodhi
33. Urban Development in the Global South
Charmain Levy and Alice Moura
34. Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism
Leandro Vergara-Camus
PART 9: DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
35. Eco-Marxist Lenses for Viewing Human-Nature Relations
Darcy Tetreault
36. Climate Change and Development
Marcus Taylor
37. The Energy Transition and the Global South
Leandro Vergara-Camus
38. The Political Economy of Extractivism in North Africa
Hamza Hamouchene
PART 10: RESISTANCES AND ALTERNATIVES
39. Understanding the Rise of the Far Right, and what to do about it
Walden Bello
40. Rural Dispossession and Resistance in Asia and Africa
Dip Kapoor
41. Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Latin America
Raúl Zibechi
42. Colonialism’s Miasmas: Indigenous Resistance and Resilience
Makere Stewart-Harawira
43. Workers’ Control and Self-Management
Dario Azzellini
44. Communitarian Revolutions: Ecological Economics from Below
David Barkin
CONCLUSION
45. Moving towards Another World: Possibilities and Pitfalls
Henry Veltmeyer
Biography
Henry Veltmeyer is Senior Research Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico, and Professor Emeritus of International Development Studies (IDS) at Saint Mary’s University, Canada.
Paul Bowles is Professor of Global Studies and Economics at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada.
'In this updated and expanded edition across over forty chapters, this volume is the "go to" source for scholars and students of critical development studies. It provides the highest levels of scholarship and knowledge around the history, content and scope of the field with relevance for challenging and posing contemporary policy and activism.'
Ben Fine, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
'Given the aspirations for social, economic and climate justice, the need for critical, interdisciplinary knowledge that points us toward bold alternatives has never been greater. This Essential Guide offers an invaluable resource in this regard. Its chronicling of the trajectory of development studies will be particularly useful to contemporary scholars to see their ideas in a historical context.'
Ananya Mukherjee Reed, Professor, Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada; Co-editor, Canadian Journal of Development Studies
'The second edition of The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies offers a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive and highly accessible guide to the growing field of international development studies from a critical perspective. It is critical in two senses: critical of mainstream development thought, while at the same time scrutinising popular ideas on alternatives. It will be an indispensable guide for academic researchers (students and senior scholars) as well as activists and development policy practitioners.'
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Professor of Agrarian Studies, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), the Netherlands
'We have not reached the end of history but the story of progress, its errors and criticisms, is the most important one in social science. Here critical development scholars have both charted and navigated an extensive archipelago of ideas to produce this guide. This updated and expanded edition covers many crucial debates and is indispensable.'
Barbara Harriss-White, FAcSS, Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK
