Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions /: deconstructions/reconstructions. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jan Nederveen Pieterse.
• Other Names: Nederveen Pieterse, Jan
• Contents: Trends in Development Theory; Development in Question; The Status of Development Theory; Meanings of 'Development' over Time; Development Is Struggle; The Development Field; Trends in Development Theory; Dilemmas of Development Discourse: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative Method; From Evolutionism to Development; Development as Redemption; The Crisis of Developmentalism; Options; From Bipolarity to Polycentrism; The Deconstruction of the West; The Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical Globalism; Notions of Change; Development Theories in the Plural; Modernization Revisited; Critical Globalism; Delinking or Globalization?; The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of Power; National Culture; Local Culture; Culture/Power; Add Culture and Stir; Development and Cultural Liberty; My Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative Development; Alternative Development; Alternative Development Paradigm; Paradigm Politics; Mainstream Development; Conclusion; After Post-Development; Problematizing Poverty; Development=Westernization; Critique of Modernism and Science; Development as Discourse; Alternatives to Development; Anti-Managerialism; Dichotomic Thinking; Politics of Post-Development; Coda; Equity and Growth Revisited: From Human Development to Social Development; Social Development; Redistribution with Growth; Lessons of East Asia; Human Development; Lessons of Welfare States; Social Capital; Conclusion; Critical Holism and the Tao of Development; Remedying Remedies; Wholeness, Holism; Contradictions of Modernity; Development and High Modernism; Shortcuts and Other Remedies; Towards the Tao of Development; Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D; Bridging the Digital Divide; ICT4D as a Package Deal; Digital Capitalism? Cyber Utopia; ICT4D and Development Studies; ICT4D and Development Policy; Futures of Development; Futures of Development Thinking; Development as Collective Learning; Complexity; Reflexive Modernity, Reflexive Development; Reconstructions; Twenty-First Century Globalization and Development; Twenty-First Century Globalization; Turning Points; New Development Era; Development Pluralism; International Development Cooperation; After the Crisis;
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: London : SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 338.9001; Development economics; Economic development -- Sociological aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446242186; 1446242188
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