Development After Globalization

This reflection on the situation in the countries of the global South examines their shared but diverse experiences of the hard facts of poverty and exclusion in the world of capitalist globalization. It probes the reality of 'underdevelopment' in an unequal world, driven by western power and capitalist profit-seeking and supported by inequalities within the countries of the 'Third World' themselves. John Saul suggests fresh ways to consider the dynamics of this situation, and seeks to rethink the ways of linking a class-based struggle with the progressive demands of gender equality and identity politics. He looks towards a synthesis of democratic, socialist, and anti-imperialist sensibilities and invites scholars and activists alike to involve themselves in the kind of intellectual activism that can underpin local, national, regional and global struggles.

'[Saul's] writings are all about instilling hope and learning from failure... He is in a sort of underground, alternate Canadian tradition to the internationalism of Lester Pearson, (one that) includes Dr. Norman Bethune who worked in China in the 1930s and Dr. Chris Giannou today.' - Rick Salutin, leading Canadian author and columnist, writing in The Toronto Globe and Mail 'John Saul's work is ... provocative, sometimes uncomfortable, but always forward-looking and constructive intervention." - Colin Leys, scholar and author 'John Saul is a scholar activist who has devoted his working life to participation on the intellectual front-line of the '30 years war' in Southern Africa.' - Victoria Brittain, journalist and writer

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