Alternative Development

Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change

Cathrine Brun, Piers Blaikie (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

374 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4724-0934-8 (ISBN)

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This book brings together a collection of essays that discuss alternative development and its relevance for local/global processes of marginalization and change in the Global South. Alternative development questions who the producers of development knowledges and practices are, and aims at decentring development and geographical knowledge from the Anglo-American centre and the Global North. It involves resistance to dominant political-economic processes in order to further the possibilities for non-exploitative and just forms of development. By discussing how to unravel marginalization and voice change through alternative methods, actors and concepts, the book provides useful guidance on understanding the relationship between theory and practice. The main strength of the book is that it calls for a central role for alternative development in the current development discourse, most notably related to justice, rights, globalization, forced migration, conflict and climate change. The book provides new ways of engaging with alternative development thinking and making development alternatives relevant.

Cathrine Brun and Michael Jones are both at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway and Piers Blaikie is Professor Emeritus of the University of East Anglia, UK.

List of Figures and Tables, List of Contributors, Preface, 1 Introduction. Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change, Part I: Knowledge, Policy and Practice of Development, Part II: Alternative Geographies of Gender and Development, Part III: Human–Environment Relations, Environmental Discourses and Development, Part IV: On the Margins: Conflict, Migration and Development, PART V: Conclusion, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.1.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	850 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4724-0934-5 / 1472409345
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-0934-8 / 9781472409348
Zustand	Neuware