Development theory. 2nd ed.

Autor/inn/en	Nederveen Pieterse, Jan; Pieterse, Jan Nederveen
Titel	Development theory. 2nd ed. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Entwicklungstheorie.
Quelle	London: Sage (2010), 252 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Theory, culture and society
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-1-4129-4515-8
Schlagwörter	Ganzheitlicher Ansatz; Gesellschaft; Sozialhilfe; Virtuelle Realität; Technologische Entwicklung; Weltbild; Gesellschaftsbild; Kapitalismus; Kultureller Wandel; Pluralismus; Transformation; Wertewandel; Globalisierung; Lernende Organisation; Wirtschaftswachstum; Qualifikationswandel; Entwicklung; Netzwerk; Theorie; Umverteilung; Welt
Abstract	"Chapter 1 is the substantive introduction to the book. It problematizes development knowledge and offers a stock taking of major trends in development thinking. Chapter 1 (Trends) and Chapters 11 (Futures) and 12 (Twenty-first century globalization) tie a ribbon around the book. Chapters 2-7 mainly consist of critical treatments of different approaches to development. Chapters 2 and 3 discuss the career of development thinking in the mode of discourse analysis. Chapter 2 focuses on the deep legacies of Eurocentrism in developmentalism. Chapter 3 addresses the zigzag character of development thinking and its inconsistencies over time. Its closing argument on critical globalism is both analytic and programmatic. One of the limitations of discourse analysis (taken up in Chapters 1 and 7) is that it fails to engage the specifics of political economy. Chapter 4 revisits the political economy approach by way of a critique of Samir Amin's work. His thesis in favour of delinking is contrasted to globalization processes, continuing the argument of critical globalism in the previous chapter. Another theme is Amin's political economy approach to 'culture'. Chapter 5 takes up various ways in which 'culture' has been incorporated into development discourse and policy.; Chapters 4-7 address four critical approaches in development: prioritizing structures (political economy), prioritizing culture (culture and development), prioritizing social forces (alternative development) and prioritizing discourse (post-development).; Chapter 8 argues for extending the human development approach to social development and for a supply-side approach to social development, including taking on questions such as social capital. Chapter 9 is a philosophical and methodological reflection; it takes the arguments on Eurocentrism in Chapter 2 further and argues for critical holism as the Tao of development. Chapter 11 on futures of development takes the opening arguments on trends in development thinking and policy into the future tense, redefines development in light of the overall discussion, and concludes with reconstructions in development. Chapter 12, new in the second edition, reflects or twenty-first century developments." Forschungsmethode: Theoriebildung; Grundlagenforschung. (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/3