Advanced Introduction to Critical Global Development

Elgar Advanced Introductions series

Uma Kothari, Professor of Migration and Postcolonial Studies, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK and Elise Klein, Associate Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

This stimulating and accessible Advanced Introduction critically engages with dominant, modernist and ahistorical narratives of development, foregrounding the overlooked dissonant discourses that are largely written out of mainstream development. It argues that development discourse and practice must remain aware of how historically unequal relations continue to be reproduced today and outlines a range of effective strategies for guiding change towards achieving global social justice.

‘Insisting on how much and little has changed, this book dwells simultaneously in the past, present, and future of development discourse and practice. The immediacy and longevity of the insights it provides are devastating and liberatory. Read it and respond.’
– Lisa Palmer, University of Melbourne, Australia

‘This is a text that manages to be pacy and accessible, while staying founded in deep scholarship on the long history and current state of ‘development’. As well as explanation and critique, the book finishes with important ideas about how to make things work better.’
——艾玛Mawdsley、英国剑桥大学