Critiques : In Defence of Development /
Critiques presented here in defence of development range across a number of issues, all of which are central to discussions about the desirability or undesirability of this historical process. These include one particular aspect - labour market competition - of the debate about racism, why the repro...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2025.
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Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Critical Social Sciences ;
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- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Last Rites for Development Studies?
- Are We the Masters Now?
- Dismantling Development
- Post-development?
- This Sense of Identity
- Climate, Class, Risk
- Themes
- part 1
- Questioning the Paradigm
- 1 Racism and Development: Blood, Sweat and Fears
- Introduction: More Lessons from History
- An Absent Nationality
- A Race against Time, a Time against Race
- Southern Myths
- No Ear to Hear
- Differences, Sameness
- Common Heirs to Its Impositions
- The Battle for Bread
- The Pinch of Hunger
- Conclusion
- 2 The Industrial Reserve and Development: A Vanishing Army?
- Introduction: Redefining the Industrial Reserve
- 19th Century Marxist Views
- 20th Century Liberal Views
- 20th Century Marxist Views
- Border Wars
- Human Flourishing, but Whose?
- What Marx Really Said
- Travelling the Same Road?
- Conclusion
- 3 Sociology and Development: A Warning from The History Man
- Introduction: Publishing, Hierarchy, Power
- The Bleak End of Things
- Who Is The History Man Now?
- The Power of Hierarchy
- No One Is Listening?
- Conclusion
- 4 Critical Agrarian Studies and Development: A Populist Land Grab
- Introduction: The Sleep of Forgetfulness
- In the Academic Salon
- Deprivileging Marxism
- 'Marxist' Questions
- 'Marxist' Answers
- Reprivileging Agrarian Populism
- Conclusion
- part 2
- Alternative Agendas
- 5 Development: A Theory without a Past, Present, or Future?
- Introduction: Paradigms/Concepts That Disappear/Reappear
- Call a Friend
- Concepts, Origins
- Capitalism Everywhere, Capitalism Nowhere
- Development Theory?
- The Sharpest Weapon
- Conclusion
- 6 Liberalism and Development: Fukuyama's Scylla and Charybdis
- Introduction: A Benign Capitalism?
- Floreat Classical Liberalism?
- I Am a Nice Shark ...
- A Progressive Left?
- Political Corrections, Problematic History
- Conclusion
- 7 Anthropology and Development: Self in the World, World in the Self
- Introduction: What Do I Know?
- The Self (in the World)
- Self-help
- No Friends There
- The World (in the Self)
- Insufficiency
- Self-sufficiency
- Humanity's Priority
- Restlessness
- Conclusion
- 8 Labour Regime and Development: Deproletarianisation and Neo-bondage Compared
- Introduction: Explaining Unfree Labour
- Deproletarianisation, Neo-bondage
- Unfreedom, Patronage, Politics
- Differences Explained?
- Misinterpreting Capitalism
- Conclusion
- part 3
- Beyond Capitalism?
- 9 Postmodernism and Development: Misremembering the Peasantry
- Introduction: Doing without Development?
- Methodology
- Sources
- Stories
- Theory
- Definitions
- Economy
- Politics
- Conclusion
- 10 On the Continuing Necessity of (Marxist) Critique
- Introduction: Paradigms, Polemics, Popularity
- A Return to Yesterday
- New Paradigms, Old Assumptions
- Class Dismissed
- Producing Curtains
- Urgent Need of Renewal
- Conversation, Collaboration, Cooperation?
- Hegemonic Formation, Populist Moments, Floating Signifiers?
- Taking People's Beliefs Seriously?
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.