Critical Development Studies
An Introduction
First in this series, this book is a searing expose of the whole development industry. It is an introduction to the critical approach to development focusing on the needs of people rather than the pursuit of profit.
About the book
Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned on improving the living conditions of people across the world by advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of the global development process. Veltmeyer and Delgado Wise, on the contrary, view capitalism as the problem rather than the solution, and provide a critical development perspective on some of the major issues that afflict people and countries across the world.
This introductory volume provides readers with an overview of the key issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the nature of the global capitalist system and an analysis of the dynamics associated with the development process, the agrarian question, the outmigration and urbanization of rural areas, the formation of a global working class and the emergence of powerful resistance movements such as the Zapatistas.
Contents
- Acronyms
- Critical Development Studies Series
- Series Editors
- Introduction
- Critical Development Studies
- Contradictions of Capitalism
- Class and Development
- The Agrarian Question Today
- Capitalism, Migration and Development
- Imperialism, Globalization and Development
- Alternative Development and the Social Economy
- Confronting the Capitalist Hydra
- Index
- Acknowledgements