Debating Development Discourse

Institutional and Popular Perspectives

• Author(s): David B. Moore, Gerald J. Schmitz,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Pages: 259
• ISBN_10: 0333617533
  ISBN_13: 9780333617533
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Political Science / International Relations / General , Business & Economics / Development / General , Political Science / Political Economy , Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy , Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy ,

Description:... This book combines critical historical analysis and case studies of the theory and practice of post-1945 international development. Beginning with a Gramscian analysis of institutional and academic development discourse, continuing with critiques of international institutions' current neo-liberal economic and 'governance' practices, and followed by studies of African moral opposition to structural adjustment's 'scientific capitalism', South African housing struggles, Zimbabwean development strategies, Costa Rican agrarian NGO's, and northern Albertan public environmental hearings, it advocates deepening radical and popular participatory democracy.