On the Edges of Development: Cultural Interventions (Routledge Studies in Development and Society)

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Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture — in the broadest sense of lived experience and its representation — can recenter resistance, suggest alternative models, and advance critiques of development as it is currently practiced.

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Rural development is inherently viewed as a positive thing; it is seen as something that brings together groups of individuals with automatic positive implications and outcomes. Policy rhetoric frequently uses popular terms such as involvement, participation and power sharing to describe rural…. Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture — in the broadest sense of lived experience and….

Much of the academic and political debate surrounding this issue has focused on private sector participation. Edited by David A. McDonald , Greg Ruiters. There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does and does not constitute an….

The child labour debate, the Child Rights Convention and the target of universal primary education in the Millennium Development Goals have drawn increasing attention to children in developing countries. Alongside, a debate has waged on the need for child participation and the appropriateness of…. The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer.

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Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. By Richard Martin , Ashna Mathema. This book explores development from theperspective of the poor.

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What lives do they live? And most importantly, what can they do about it? Martin and Mathema debate how people can be given legitimate control of theirown…. By Hartmut Brandt , Uwe Otzen. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor…. This unique study is the first in depth examination of the environment and development of the Straits. Taking an integrative approach, the book argues that the region has an underlying unity which political divisions between Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore disguise.

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This book explores the linkages between formal and informal housing finance drawing upon the lessons of NGO and micro-finance practices. Both public and private formal finance institutions have experienced great difficulty in lending below a middle-income client group, and are often reluctant to…. Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the motivational foundations.

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Edited by Per Raberg. This book launches a strategy for sustainable development, starting from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or 'Life Region'. Special emphasis is placed on the situation of the provincial and peripheral regions of Europe and the….

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