Development Theory

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural anthropology. He was previously at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a part-time chair at Maastricht University. He currently focuses on new trends in twenty-first-century globalization and the implications of economic crisis. He has been visiting a professor in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and Thailand. He is on the editorial board of Clarity Press, the Journal of Global Studies and e-global, and is associate editor of the European Journal of Social Theory, Ethnicities, Third Text and the Journal of Social Affairs.

• Trends in Development Theory Development in QuestionThe Status of Development TheoryMeanings of ′Development′ over TimeDevelopment Is StruggleThe Development FieldTrends in Development TheoryDilemmas of Development Discourse: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Comparative MethodFrom Evolutionism to DevelopmentDevelopment as RedemptionThe Crisis of DevelopmentalismOptionsFrom Bipolarity to PolycentrismThe Deconstruction of the WestThe Development of Development Theory: Towards Critical GlobalismNotions of ChangeDevelopment Theories in the PluralModernization RevisitedCritical GlobalismDelinking or Globalization?The Cultural Turn in Development: Questions of PowerNational CultureLocal CultureCulture/PowerAdd Culture and Stir Development and Cultural LibertyMy Paradigm or Yours? Variations on Alternative DevelopmentAlternative DevelopmentAlternative Development ParadigmParadigm PoliticsMainstream DevelopmentConclusion After Post-Development Problematizing PovertyDevelopment=WesternizationCritique of Modernism and ScienceDevelopment as DiscourseAlternatives to DevelopmentAnti-ManagerialismDichotomic ThinkingPolitics of Post-DevelopmentCodaEquity and Growth Revisited: From Human Development to Social DevelopmentSocial DevelopmentRedistribution with GrowthLessons of East AsiaHuman DevelopmentLessons of Welfare StatesSocial CapitalConclusion Critical Holism and the Tao of Development Remedying RemediesWholeness, HolismContradictions of ModernityDevelopment and High ModernismShortcuts and Other RemediesTowards the Tao of DevelopmentDigital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4DBridging the Digital DivideICT4D as a Package DealDigital Capitalism? Cyber UtopiaICT4D and Development StudiesICT4D and Development PolicyFutures of DevelopmentFutures of Development ThinkingDevelopment as Collective LearningComplexityReflexive Modernity, Reflexive DevelopmentReconstructionsTwenty-First Century Globalization and DevelopmentTwenty-First Century GlobalizationTurning PointsNew Development EraDevelopment PluralismInternational Development CooperationAfter the Crisis

This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies coursesAndrea CornwallInstitute of Development Studies, The University of SussexThis marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studiesKeith GriffinDept of Economics, University of California at Riverside