Development Studies

This important new collection gathers together a world class team of contributors to assess the impact of neoliberalism on the world economy. These include Douglass C. North, Robert Keohane, Peter Hall and Peter Katzenstein...

This book provides a comprehensive spatial guide to the globalized world of the 21st century, focusing on nine timely global themes as well as insights and ideas for worlds of the future: demographic trends in the contemporary world and migration; problems of development; religion; war, conflict and..

This book brings together two sets of development questions usually considered separately: the affective investments in humanitarian and development aid and the latter’s use of visual representation and digital media. The author interweaves analysis of both to directly address young people’s investm..

First published in 1989, this book deals with the impact of cereal production upon the Third World, specifically ‘Modern Varieties’ (MVs). Using evidence from plant breeding, economics and nutrition science, the authors seek to pinpoint what has been achieved, what has gone wrong and what needs to b..

A concise, comprehensive and critical introduction to the subject of NGOs and development. This critical overview will be useful to students of development studies at undergraduate and masters levels, as well as to more general readers and practitioners...

This book fills this gap by offering a much needed political economy analysis of One Health research and policy. Through ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative data, the book draws together a diverse number of case studies. These include chapters exploring global narratives about One Health oper..

This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for thinking about urban development and crosses the longstanding divide in urban scholarship and urban policy, between Western and other cities...

Historically, Latin America has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty. Adopting a multidimensional approach, the causes and consequences of this inequality are analytically examined here...

This new edition of Overseas Research: a Practical Guide is the ideal guide book to the real-life challenges of living and working in the developing world. The authors cover all aspects of the experience: choosing where to work, preparation for departure, finding somewhere to live, conducting resear..

This new edition of Overseas Research: a Practical Guide is the ideal guide book to the real-life challenges of living and working in the developing world. The authors cover all aspects of the experience: choosing where to work, preparation for departure, finding somewhere to live, conducting resear..

Participation is a key community work method and this text critically engages with its theoretical and conceptual underpinnings before drawing on international examples and perspectives. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, this book will challenge and inspire all those involv..

This book presents current thinking and practice in applying gender-sensitive and participatory research in working with women and men in poor and marginal farming communities._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Development in Practice...