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Challenging the dominant and mainstream views in global development, this pioneering Handbook questions the entirety of the development process in order to outline holistic political economies of development, discontents, and alternatives.

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Challenging the dominant and mainstream views in global development, this pioneering Handbook questions the entirety of the development process in order to outline holistic political economies of development, discontents, and alternatives.Critically engaging with key theoretical debates and constructs in development studies, the contributors assess the problem of global development and underdevelopment, and the existing problematic explanations and solutions, before outlining alternatives. Chapters explore the nature of development, engaging with, critiquing, and going beyond the dominant theoretical approaches of modernisation, dependency, neoliberalism, human development, sustainable development, and postdevelopment. The chapters further examine more recent powerful forces of change, including sustainability, self-reliance, social and solidarity economies, and ecological alternatives. The Handbook makes a convincing case for an open-ended, ongoing theorisation of development and leaves readers with a key take-away: that not only inequalities but also social stratification can be used to frame the theorising, teaching, practice, praxis, policies, politics, activism, and indeed everything in the political economy of development.Underpinning innovative new research on development, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of development studies, development economics, political economy, and social policy in emerging countries. Global in scope, policymakers and practitioners working in the Global South and the Global North will also find this Handbook refreshing.

Author Biography

Edited by Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Professor of Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

Table of Contents

Contents:PART I GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT1 Broken mirrors: towards holistic political economies of development, its discontents and alternatives 2Franklin Obeng-Odoom2 Imperialism and postcolonialism 12Jayanth TharappelPART II PROBLEMATIC EXPLANATIONS3 Neoliberalism and development 39Bill Dunn4 Property rights 55Giorgos Meramveliotakis and Dimitris Milonakis5 Land reforms 75Tim Anderson6 Resource curse 91Cyril Obi7 Human capital, gender and intersectionality 107Irene Browne and Allison Sullivan8 International trade and economic development 123Amitava Krishna Dutt9 Cities and development 143Heba E. Helmy10 Microcredit: when market-driven social innovations go wrong 168Milford Bateman11 Reverse remittances 198Geraldine Asiwome Ampah12 The poverty of development theory: China's Faustian bargain with global capital 215Walden BelloPART III ALTERNATIVES13 Sustainability and sustainable communities 233David Barkin14 Self-reliance and autonomous development 250Julia Eder15 Social and solidarity economy 273Nathanael Ojong16 Development and (dis)abilities 289Hisayo Katsui17 Black feminism and development 305Odile Mackett18 Burkindi: self-centred development 323Zakaria Soré and Paul Marie Moyenga19 Bioeconomy: a solution to the challenges of a post-fossil future? 334Dennis Eversberg, Jana Holz and Matthias Schmelzer20 Ecological reparations 352Franklin Obeng-OdoomIndex 362

Review

'A strength of this Handbook is the broad spread of its chapter authors – geographically and by gender and ethnicity – as well as drawing country-specific examples of development challenges and how they have been handled. ... It provides foundational knowledge on the current state of development theory. More importantly, it forces the reader to confront and critically reflect on their own personal views. Regardless of the conclusions one draws from this Handbook, it represents a necessary next step in development theory. The Handbook is not complacent. It does not just critique the current state of development theory. Rather, it aims to inspire a mutation within development theory – to unlock and to create a new mode of development and a new identity of development theory.' -- Harrison Read, Journal of Australian Political Economy

Details ISBN1839109947 Author Franklin Obeng-Odoom Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Series Elgar Handbooks in Development Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781839109942 Format Hardcover Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Place of Publication Cheltenham Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Franklin Obeng-Odoom AU Release Date 2023-11-28 NZ Release Date 2023-11-28 Audience Professional & Vocational Pages 388 Publication Date 2023-11-24 UK Release Date 2023-11-24 We've got this

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