A Radical History of Development Studies

In this book some of the leading thinkers in Development Studies trace the history of their multi-disciplinary subject from the late colonial period all the way through to its contemporary concerns with poverty reduction. They present a critical genealogy of development, looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses. These personal and institutional recollections, by those who teach, research and practise development, challenge simplistic, unilinear periodizations of the evolution of the discipline, and draw attention to ongoing critiques, such as Marxism, feminism and postcolonialism, which so often have been marginalized or written out of mainstream development discourse. Key themes include gender and development, NGOs, and natural resource management. The book is radical in that it challenges orthodoxies of development theory and practice and highlights concealed, critical discourses that have been written out of conventional stories of development.

ISBN 1842775251   Pages 240 ISBN13 9781842775257 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Zed Books Ltd   Weight (grammes) 372 Imprint Zed Books Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 01 Dec 2005   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2005047356   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 338.9009   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

1		A radical history of development studies : individuals, institutions and ideologies by Uma Kothari		1
2		Great promise, hubris and recovery : a participant's history of development studies by John Harriss		17
3		From colonial administration to development studies : a post-colonial critique of the history of development studies by Uma Kothari		47
4		Critical reflections of a development nomad by Robert Chambers		67
5		Secret diplomacy uncovered : research on the World Bank in the 1960s and 1980s by Teresa Hayter		88
6		Development studies and the Marxists by Henry Bernstein		111
7		Journeying in radical development studies : a reflection on thirty years of researching pro-poor development by John Cameron		138
8		The rise and rise of gender and development by Ruth Pearson		157
9		Development studies, nature and natural resources : changing narratives and discursive practices by Phil Woodhouse and Admos Chimhowu		180
10		Individuals, organizations and public action : trajectories of the 'non-governmental' in development studies by David Lewis		200

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