Radical History of Development Studies

Uma Kothari is a senior lecturer in development studies at the School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK. She has carried out research in India and Mauritius and her research interests include histories and theories of development, colonial and post-colonial discourse, social development and migration and development. She is co-editor of Participation: The New Tyranny? (Zed Books, 2001, with B. Cooke) and Development Theory and Practice: Critical Perspectives (2002, with M. Minogue).

• 1. A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies - Uma Kothari2. Great Promise, Hubris and Recovery: A Participant's History of Development Studies - John Harriss3. From colonialism administration to development studies: a postcolonial critique of the history of development studies - Uma Kothari4. Critical Reflections of a Development Nomad - Robert Chambers5. Secret Diplomacy Uncovered: Research on the World Bank in the 1960s and 1980s - Teresa Hayter6. Development Studies and the Marxists - Henry Bernstein7. Journeying in Radical Development Studies: A Reflection on Thirty Years of Researching Pro-Poor Development - John Cameron8. The Rise and Rise of Gender and Development - Ruth Pearson9. Development Studies, Nature and Natural Resources: Changing Narratives and Discursive Practices - Phil Woodhouse and Admos Chimhowu10. Individuals, Organisations and Public Action: Trajectories of the 'Non-Governmental' in Development Studies - David Lewis

Overall, it is a stimulating book ... very well documented, it facilitates a retracing of the history of the field and it also highlights how individuals involved had to continually rethink or revisit what they had been doing.