Development Studies

Providing a clear introduction to a burgeoning topic, this innovative book places rural-urban interactions within a broader context; promoting a clearer understanding of the opportunities and challenges they represent...

First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

In this book, first published in 1989, Ken Post and Phil Wright provide a critical analysis of socialist construction in underdeveloped countries. Pointing out that all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century have occurred in underdeveloped peripheral capitalist countries, they focus on t..

This book explores the complex interrelationship between globalization, liberalization and human and social development, with a full analysis of development policy, strategy and practice...

This volume explores the dynamics of soy production from its diverse social settings to its transnational connections, examining the politics of commodity and knowledge production, the role of the state, and the reach of corporate power across soy landscapes in South America. It originally published..

Sheds fresh light on the historical roots of the ethnic crisis in the country. Its interest extends beyond contemporary politics into history, anthropology and development studies...

This book challenges current views of what it means to be a citizen by focusing on displacement and experiences of space as a political concept. Developing the concept of ‘political space’, the author analyses how historical processes shape spatial arrangements, informing the identities and politica..

This book challenges current views of what it means to be a citizen by focusing on displacement and experiences of space as a political concept. Developing the concept of ‘political space’, the author analyses how historical processes shape spatial arrangements, informing the identities and politica..

Provides a forum for analysis and debate of international and strategic affairs. This journal encourages writers to challenge conventional wisdom and bring fresh, often controversial, perspectives to bear on the strategic issues of the moment...

Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods shows that the scope of sustainability thinking needs to be widened to embrace public policies and experiences in both developed and developing countries...

Understanding the Water Energy Food nexus is important at a time when we are geared up for implementation of the SDGs which are currently formulated as individual goals, but they are not at all independent. This book will help different actors and stakeholders for moving towards action on the SDGs...

This book introduces the capability approach – in which wellbeing, agency and justice are the core values - as a powerful normative lens to examine technology and its role in development. This approach attaches central moral importance to human capabilities understood as effective opportunities peop..