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Product Description 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 courses. - Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex Praise for the previous edition:"This marvellous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies". - Keith Griffin, University of California, RiversideThis is the second edition of this successful book. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, it:Situates students in the expanding field of development theory.Provides an unrivalled guide to the strengths and weaknesses of competing theoretical approaches.Explains key concepts.Examines the shifts in theory.Offers an agenda for the future.Jan Nederveen brings together a huge range of experience and knowledge about the relationship between the economically advanced and the emerging, developing nations. Review 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 About the Author 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.

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Brand: Sage Publications
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1412945143
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 September 2009
Listed Since: 23 May 2008

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