The Companion to Development Studies is essential reading in the field of development studies. This indispensable resource offers succinct, up-to-date, and insightful chapters that reflect the diverse voices and perspectives informing the field and the dynamic interplay of theory, policy, and practice that characterises it.

This fourth edition brings together contributions from an impressive range of renowned international experts and emerging voices at the forefront of development studies to deliver engaging, interdisciplinary, and provocative insights into this challenging field. The 98 chapters spanning both theory and practice offer readers accessible discussions of the core issues, emerging trends, and key debates of the discipline. Divided into nine sections of: theories and their contentions; histories and discourses of development; actors and institutions; identities and practices; people and the planet; the economics of development; conflict, violence, and peace; the changing landscape of development; and approaches to policy and practice; this timely new text provides easy to use summaries of all the major issues encountered in this rapidly growing and changing field.

The Companion serves students and scholars across various disciplines, including development studies, geography, politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, and economics. It offers incisive analysis and critical insights, equipping those working in development policy and practice with the knowledge and understanding they need to navigate and address contemporary global challenges.

This textbook is supported by flexible, online resources for teaching and learning such as tutorial guides, key concept videos, and a filmography.

Table of Contents

One: Theories and their Contentions

1) Theories, strategies and ideologies of development: an overview

Robert B. Potter

2) The impasse in development studies

Frans J. Schuurman

3) Dependency Theories: from ECLA to André Gunder Frank and Beyond

Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen

4) The New World Group of Dependency Scholars: Reflections of a Caribbean Avant-Garde Movement

Don D Marshall

5) World-systems theory: core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral regions

Thomas Klak

6) Neoliberalism: Different paths within a global project

Elizabeth Humphrys

7) Development as Freedom

Patricia Northover

8) Postcolonialism

Cheryl McEwan

9) Postmodernism and development

David Simon

10) Post-Development

James D Sidaway

11) Clarifying confusion between development as ‘change’ and ‘intention’

David Lewis

12) Culture and Development

Susanne Schech

13) Development Ethics

Des Gasper

Two: Histories and discourses of development

14) Development in a global-historical context

Ruth Craggs

15) Heritage and Development

Charlotte Cross and John D. Giblin

16) The Changing Language of International Development

Daniel Hammet

17) Representing Poverty

John Cameron

18) Global North and Global South

Kamna Patel

19) The shift to global development

Rory Horner

20) Enlightenment and the era of modernity

Marcus Power

21) The Washington Consensus and the Post-Washington Consensus

Ali Burak Güven

22) Concepts and Measures of Development: Beyond GDP

Jakob Dirksen

23) Global economic inequality, the great divergence, and the legacies of colonialism and enslavement

Alan Shipman, Julia Ngozi Chukwuma, and Emil Dauncey

24) Conflict Politics as Developmentalism

Raktim Ray

Three: Actors and Institutions

25) Development and Nationalism

David Neilsen

26) China-Africa relations in a changing world

Frangton Chiyemura

27) Civil society and civic space

Sarah Peck

28) Role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

Vandana Desai

29) Philanthropy, private foundations and global development

Adam Fejerskov

30) For-profit consultants and contractors in development

Emma Mawdsley

31) Corporate Social Responsibility: Development on Whose Terms?

Maha Rafi Atal

32) Gender, Ethical Consumerism and political participation

Celia Bartlett

33) Environmental Defenders and Social Movements: The Violent Realities of Resisting Extractivism

Levi Gahman, Filiberto Penados and Shelda-Jane Smith

34) Religion

Ben Jones

35) Social Capital and Development

Anthony Bebbington and Katherine Foo

36) Is there a legal right to development?

Radha D’Souza

Four: Identities and Practices

37) Children and development

Kristen E. Cheney

38) Youth: Perspectives and Paradigms in Global Development

Emil Dauncey

39) Ageing and poverty

Vandana Desai

40) Disability

Ruth Evans and Yaw Adjei-Amoako

41) Sexualities and Development

Andrea Cornwall and Vanja Hamzić

42) Rethinking Gender and Empowerment

Jane Parpart

43) Critique of feminism from the South

Madhu Purnima Kishwar

44) Identities and Intersectionality

Sara de Jong

45) A K-shaped crisis: Covid-19 and inequalities

Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira and Magali N. Alloatti

Five: People and the Planet

46) Sustainable development

Michael Redclift

47) The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS)

Johnathan Rigg

48) Transformations to sustainability

Lakshmi Charli-Joseph & Jesús Mario Siqueiros-García

49) The 4D framework: a holistic approach to countering climate change misinformation

John Cook

50) Decolonising human-nature relationships: Indigenous ontologies and development

Thomas Aneurin Smith

51) Water Insecurity

Catherine Fallon Grasham

52) The Blue Economy

Kate Symons

53) Fisheries and Development

Carole Sandrine White

54) Famine

Stephen Devereux

55) Renewable Energy and Development

Andrew Lawrence

56) Climate adaptation

Rónán McDermott, Karsten Schulz, Lummina Horlings, Lorenzo Squintani

57) Global Environmental Justice

Adrian Martin

Six: The Economics of development

58) Growth and Development

Augustin Kwasi Fosu

59) Aid and growth

Ines A. Ferreira

60) Foreign Aid in a Changing World

Stephen Brown

61) Aid conditionality

Jonathan R. W. Temple

62) Trade Liberalisation and Economic Development in the Developing Countries

Kalim Siddiqui

63) The Knowledge Based Economy and Digital Divisions of Labour

Mark Graham, Sanna Ojanperä, Martin Dittus

64) New Institutional Economics and Development

Philipp Lepenies

65) Development and consumption

Cecile Jackson

66) Rethinking ‘work’ from the cities of the South

William Monteith

67) Rural Livelihoods in a Context of the Global Land Rush

Annelies Zoomers and Kei Otsuki

68) Migration and Transnationalism

Katie Willis

69) The measurement of poverty

Francesco Burchi and Howard White

70) Behavioural economics and development economics

Bereket Kebede

71) Financialisation and Development

Ben Fine

Seven: Conflict, violence and peace

72) Fragile States

Tom Goodfellow

73) Resource Wars

Emma Gilberthorpe and Elissaios Papyrakis

74) Gender and conflict

Erika Forsberg

75) Violence Against Women and Girls

Cathy McIlwaine

76) Global human exploitation: Trafficking, forced labour and modern slavery

Louise Waite

77) Cities, crime and development

Paula Meth

78) Policing and development

Charlotte Cross

79) Peace-building partnerships and human security

Timothy M. Shaw and Abigail Kabandula

Eight: The changing landscape of development

80) Urban Bias

Gareth A. Jones and Stuart Corbridge

81) Studies in comparative urbanism

Colin McFarlane

82) Understanding Land as Fictitious Capital in Financial Capitalism

Sarah E. Sharma and Susanne Soederberg

83) Land grabs

Pádraig Carmody and Adwoa Ofori

84) Gentrification

Ernesto López-Morales

85) "Slums and Modernity"

Syed Haider

86) Urban Health: Sustainable Development and the Healthy City

Jennifer Cole

87) Infrastructures for Development

Stephanie Ketterer Hobbis

Nine: Approaches to policy and practice

88) How to manage for effective aid? The recent emergence of three management approaches

Brendan S Whitty

89) Participatory Development

Giles Mohan

90) Cash Transfers and HIV Prevention in Africa

Kevin Deane

91) Social Protection in Development Context

Sarah Cook and Katja Hujo

92) Universal Basic Income

Elizaveta Fouksman

93) Making Social Work Visible in Social Development in Nigeria: challenges and interconnections

Uzoma Okoye and Susan Levy

94) Technological Innovation and Development

Theo Papaioannou

95) Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)

Azadeh Akbari

96) Decolonising global health

Julia Ngozi Chukwuma

97) Navigating the institutional gaps, mismatch, and neglect: Exploring the landscape of non-communicable diseases in the developing countries

Pallavi Joshi and Dinar Kale

98) What is Vocational Education and Training for What Development?

Simon McGrath

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The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Covering a wide range of disciplines the book is divided into ten sections, each prefaced by a section introduction written by the editors. The sections cover: the nature of development, theories and strategies of development, globalization and development, rural development, urbanization and development, environment and development, gender, health and education, the political economy of violence and insecurity, and governance and development.

This third edition has been extensively updated and contains 45 new contributions from leading authorities, dealing with pressing contemporary issues such as race and development, ethics and development, BRICs and development, global financial crisis, the knowledge based economy and digital divide, food security, GM crops, comparative urbanism, cities and crime, energy, water hydropolitics, climate change, disability, fragile states, global war on terror, ethnic conflict, legal rights to development, ecosystems services for development, just to name a few. Existing chapters have been thoroughly revised to include cutting-edge developments, and to present updated further reading and websites.

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Part 1: The Nature of Development and Development Studies 1.1 Development in a Global-Historical Context Ruth Craggs 1.2 The Third World, Developing Countries, the South, Emerging Markets and Rising Powers Klaus Dodds 1.3 The Nature of Development Studies Robert B. Potter 1.4 The Impasse in Development Studies Frans J. Schuuman 1.5 Development and Economic Growth A. P. Thirlwall 1.6 Development and Social Welfare/Human Rights Jennifer A. Elliott 1.7 Development as Freedom Patricia Northover 1.8 Race and Development Denise Ferreira da Silva 1.9 Culture and Development Susanne Schech 1.10 Ethics and Development Des Gasper 1.11 New Institutional Economics and Development Philipp Lepenies 1.12 Measuring Development: From GDP to the HDI and Wider Approaches Robert B. Potter 1.13 The Measure of Poverty Howard White 1.14 The Millennium Development Goals Jonathan Rigg 1.15 BRICS and Development José E. Cassiolato Part 2: Theories and Strategies of Development 2.1 Theories, Strategies and Ideologies of Development: An Overview Robert B. Potter 2.2 Smith, Ricardo and the World Marketplace, 1776 to 2012: Back to the Future and Beyond David Sapsford 2.3 Enlightenment and the Era of Modernity Marcus Power 2.4 Dualistic and Unilinear Concepts of Development Tony Binns 2.5 Neoliberalism: Globalization’s Neoconservative Enforcer of Austerity Dennis Conway 2.6 Dependency Theories: From ECLA to André Gunder Frank and Beyond Dennis Conway and Nik Heynen 2.7 The New World Group of Dependency Scholars: Reflections of a Caribbean Avant-Garde Movement Don D. Marshall 2.8 World-Systems Theory: Core, Semi-Peripheral and Peripheral Regions Thomas Klak 2.9 Indigenous Knowledge and Development John Briggs 2.10 Participatory Development Giles Mohan 2.11 Postcolonialism Cheryl McEwan 2.12 Postmodernism and Development David Simon 2.13 Post-Development James D. Sidaway 2.14 Social Capital and Development Anthony Bebbington and Katherine Foo Part 3: Globalisation, Employment and Development 3.1 Globalization: An Overview Andrew Herod 3.2 The New International Division of Labour Alan Gilbert 3.3 Global Shift: Industrialization and DevelopmentRay Kiely 3.4 Globalization/Localization and Development Warwick E. Murray and John Overton 3.5 Trade and Industrial Policy in Development Countries David Greenway and Chris Milner 3.6 The Knowledge Based Economy and Digital Division of Labour Mark Graham 3.7 Corporate Social Responsibility and Development Dorothea Kleine 3.8 The Informal Economy in Cities of the South Sylvia Chant 3.9 Child Labour Sally Lloyd-Evans 3.10 Migration and Transnationalism Katie D. Willis 3.11 Dispora and Development Claire Mercer and Ben Page Part 4: Rural Development 4.1 Rural Poverty Edwards Heinemann 4.2 Rural Livelihoods in a Context of a New Scarcities Annelies Zoomers 4.3 Food Security Richard Tiffin 4.4 Famine Stephen Devereux 4.5 Genetically Modified Crops and Development Matin Qaim 4.6 Rural Co-Operatives: A New Millennium? D. W. Atwoods, B. S. Baviskar and D. R. Sick 4.7 Land Reform Ruth Hall, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Ben White 4.8 Gender, Agriculture and Land RightsSusie Jacobs 4.9 The Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture Jules Pretty Part 5: Urbanization and Development 5.1 Urbanization in Low and Middle Income Nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America David Satterthwaite 5.3 Global Cities and the Production of Uneven Development Chrisof Pamreiter 5.2 Urban Bias Gareth Jones and Stuart Corbridge 5.4 Studies in Comparative Urbanization Colin McFarlane 5.5 Prosperity or Poverty? Wealth, Inequality and Deprivation in Urban Areas Carole Rakodi 5.6 Housing the Urban Poor Alan Gilbert 5.7 Urbanization and Environment in Low and Middle Income Nations David Satterthwaite 5.8 Transport and Urban Development Eduardo Alcantara Vasconcellos 5.9 Cities, Crime and Development Paula Meth Part 6: Environment and Development 6.1 Sustainable Development Michael Redclift 6.2 International Regulations and the Environment Giles Atkinson 6.3 Climate Change and Development: An Overview Emily Boyd 6.4 A Changing Climate and African Development Chuwumerije Okereke 6.5 Vulnerability and Disasters Terry Cannon 6.6 Ecosystem Services and DevelopmentTim Daw 6.7 Natural Resource Management: A Critical Appraisal Jayalaxshmi Mistry 6.8 Water and Hydropolitics Jessica Budds and Alex Loftus 6.9 Energy and Development Subhes C. Bhattacharyya 6.10 Tourism and Environment Matthew Louis Bishop 6.11 Transport and Sustainability: Developmental Pathways Robin Hickman Part 7: Gender and Development 7.1 Demographic Change and Gender Tiziana Leone 7.2 Women and the State Kathleen Staudt 7.3 Gender, Families and Households Ann Varley 7.4 Feminism and Feminist Issues in the Global South Madhu Purnima Kishwar 7.5 Rethinking Gender and Empowerment Jane Parpart 7.6 Gender and Globalization Vandana Desai 7.7 Migrant Woman in the New Economy: Understanding the Gender-Migration-Care Nexus Kavita Datta 7.8 Woman and Political Representation Shirin M. Rai 7.9 Sexuality and Development Andrew Cornwall 7.10 Indigenous Fertility Control Tulsi Patel Part 8: Health and Education 8.1 Nutritional Problems, Policies and Intervention Strategies in Developing Economies Prakash Shetty 8.2 Motherhood, Mortality and Healthcare Maya Unnithan-Kumar 8.3 The Development Impacts of HIV/AIDS Lora Sabin, Marion McNabb and Mary Bachman DeSilva 8.5 Health Disparity: From ‘Health Inequality’ to ‘Health Inequity’: The Move to a Moral Paradigm in Global Health DisparityHazel R. Barrett 8.6 Disability Ruth Evans 8.7 Social Protection in Development Context Sarah Cook and Katja Hujo 8.8 Female Participation in Education Christopher Colclough 8.9 The Challenge of Skill Formation and Training Jeemol Unni 8.10 Development Education, Global Citizenship and International Volunteering Matt Baillie Smith Part 9: Political Economy of Violence and Insecurity 9.1 Gender and Aged Based Violence Cathy McIlwaine 9.2 Fragile States Tom Goodfellow 9.3 Refugees Richard Black and Ceri Oeppen 9.4 Humanitarian Aid Phil O’Keefe and Joanne Rose 9.5 Global War on Terror, Development and Civil Society June Howell 9.6 Peace-Building Partnership and Human Security Timothy M. Shaw 9.7 Nationalism Michel Seymour 9.8 Ethnic Conflict and the State Rajesh Venugopal 9.9 Religions and Development Emma Tomalin Part 10: Governance and Development 10.1 Foreign Aid in a Changing World Stephen Brown 10.2 The Rising Powers as Development Donors and Partners Emma Mawdsley 10.3 Aid Conditionality Jonathan R. W. Temple 10.4 Aid Effectiveness Jonathan Glennie 10.5 Global Governance Issues and the Current Crisis Isabella Massa and Jose Brambila-Macias 10.6 Change Agents: A History of Hope in NGOs, Civil Society and the 99% Alison Van Rooy 10.7 Corruption and Development Susan Rose-Ackerman 10.8 The Role of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Vandana Desai 10.9 Non-Government Public Action Networks and Global Policy Processes Barbara Rugendyke 10.10 Multilateral Institutions: ‘Developing Countries’ and ‘Emerging Markets’ – Stability or Change? Morten Boas 10.11 Is There a Legal Right to Development Radha D’Souza

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