Handbook on alternative global development / Franklin Obeng-Odoom.

Front Matter;
Copyright;
Contents;
List of figures;
List of tables;
Editor;
List of contributors;
Acknowledgements;
Part I: GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT;
Chapter 1: Broken mirrors: towards holistic political economies of development, its discontents and alternatives;
Franklin Obeng-Odoom;
Chapter 2: Imperialism and postcolonialism;
Jayanth Tharappel;
Part II: PROBLEMATIC EXPLANATIONS;
Chapter 3: Neoliberalism and development;
Bill Dunn;
Chapter 4: Property rights;
Giorgos Meramveliotakis and Dimitris Milonakis;
Chapter 5: Land reforms;
Tim Anderson;
Chapter 6: Resource curse;
Cyril Obi;
Chapter 7: Human capital, gender and intersectionality;
Irene Browne and Allison Sullivan;
Chapter 8: International trade and economic development;
Amitava Krishna Dutt;
Chapter 9: Cities and development;
Heba E. Helmy;
Chapter 10: Microcredit: when market-driven social innovations go wrong;
Milford Bateman;
Chapter 11: Reverse remittances;
Geraldine Asiwome Ampah;
Chapter 12: The poverty of development theory: China’s Faustian bargain with global capital;
Walden Bello;
Part III: ALTERNATIVES;
Chapter 13: Sustainability and sustainable communities;
David Barkin;
Chapter 14: Self-reliance and autonomous development;
Julia Eder;
Chapter 15: Social and solidarity economy;
Nathanael Ojong;
Chapter 16: Development and (dis)abilities;
Hisayo Katsui;
Chapter 17: Black feminism and development;
Odile Mackett;
Chapter 18: Burkindi: self-centred development;
Zakaria Soré and Paul-Marie Moyenga;
Chapter 19: Bioeconomy: a solution to the challenges of a post-fossil future?;
Dennis Eversberg, Jana Holz, and Matthias Schmelzer;
Chapter 20: Ecological reparations;
Franklin Obeng-Odoom;
Back Matter;
Index.

"Challenging the dominant and mainstream views in global development, this pioneering Handbook questions the entirety of the development process in order to outline the holistic political economies of development, its discontents, and its alternatives. Critically engaging with key theoretical debates and constructs in development studies, expert 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 post development. They 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 will also find its insights refreshing"-- Provided by publisher.