Globalization and Development by Don Kalb
This book is a collective effort on the part of researchers affiliated with the CERES Research School in Development Studies in the Netherlands to discuss a series of themes and concepts crucial to the overlapping fields of globalization and development research. While development in the course of the 1980s and 1990s was becoming hinged onto globalization, prior approaches to development were increasingly being criticized. An impasse was announced by various actors in the field, and renewed reflection on some of the basic concepts and methods became inevitable. Much of the initial rethinking went under the sign of postmodernism and tended to give priority to micro- and actor-centered research. Later, with the emerging discussion on globalization, new macro dimensions were added, and efforts were launched to articulate local/global approaches. This book discusses a set of key themes and concepts that reflect these intellectual and historical developments. Used by politicians and researchers, they reflect the continuing concern about inequality and poverty by students and practitioners of development, and contain crucial perspectives for a critical engagement of current globalization processes and their consequences. The chapters in this book examine the notions and issues of globalization, livelihood, identity, governance, transnationalism, and knowledge.
Don Kalb is an anthropologist and associate professor of general sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Marco van der Land is a sociologist and consultant with A2 stAdsAdviseur in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Richard Staring is an anthropologist with the Rotterdam Institute for Social Policy Research at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Bart van Steenbergen is associate professor in the Department of General Social Sciences at the University of Utrecht. Nico Wilterdink is professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Vice Dean of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781402024740 |
| ISBN 10 | 1402024746 |
| Title | Globalization and Development |
| Author | Don Kalb |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2004-06-24 |
| Number of pages | 204 |
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