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Key Thinkers on Development
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Ideal for students and scholars of development studies and sustainability, as well as professionals seeking authoritative insights into key thinkers who have shaped theory, policy, and practice worldwide.
Fifty Key Thinkers on Development has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field, providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum.
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Since its publication in 2006 as Fifty Key Thinkers on Development, this invaluable reference has established itself as the leading biographical handbook in its field, providing a concise and accessible introduction to the lives and key contributions of development thinkers from across the ideological and disciplinary spectrum. This substantially expanded and fully updated second edition in the relaunched series, without the numerical constraint, includes an additional 24 essays, filling in many gaps in the original selection, greatly improving the gender balance and diversifying coverage to reflect the evolving landscape of development in theory, policy and practice.
It presents a unique guide to the lives, ideas, and practices of leading contributors to the contested terrain of development studies and development policy and practice. Its thoughtful essays reflect the diversity of development in theory, policy, and practice across time, space, disciplines, and communities of practice. Accordingly, it challenges Western-centrism, Orientalism, and the like, while also demonstrating the enduring appeal of development in different guises. David Simon has assembled a highly authoritative team of contributors from different backgrounds, regional settings, and disciplines to reflect on the lives and contributions of leading authorities on development from around the world. These include:
- Modernisers like Kindleberger, Perroux, and Rostow
- Dependencistas such as Frank, Furtado, Cardoso, and Amin
- Progressives and critical modernists like Hirschman, Prebisch, Helleiner, Sen, Streeten, and Wang
- Political leaders enunciating radical alternative visions of development, such as Mao, Nkrumah, and Nyerere
- Progenitors of religiously or spiritually inspired development, such as Gandhi, Ariyaratne, and Vivekananda
- Development–environment thinkers like Agarwal, Blaikie, Brookfield, Ostrom, and Sachs
- International institution builders like Singer, Hammarsköld, Kaul, and Ul Haq
- Anti- and post-development thinkers and activists like Escobar, Ghosh, Quijano, and Roy
Key Thinkers on Development is therefore the essential handbook on the world’s most influential development thinkers and an invaluable guide for students of development and sustainability, policy-makers, and practitioners seeking an accessible overview of this diverse field and its leading voices.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781138494282
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 16 April 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: 2nd edition
Contributors:
- Edited by David Simon
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 725g
Pages: 490
About the Author
David Simon is Professor of Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Director of Mistra Urban Futures, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is author, editor and co-editor of many books and journal special issues on cities, development–environment challenges and climate change adaptation, most recently Rethinking Sustainable Cities: Accessible, Green and Fair (2016), Urban Planet (2018) and Holocaust Escapees and Global Development: Hidden Histories (2019).
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