Social science, Political Science, Economic history and conditions 

As the failings of neoliberalism become evident, the need for a new development paradigm becomes increasingly urgent. This Handbook offers a ground-breaking critical review of development and social change, and in doing so sets out the terms of the debates needed in areas where the orthodoxy has worn thin.

The Handbook on Development and Social Change tackles key global topics including sustainability, regionalism and international finance, as well as examining key developing regions from Latin America to China. With original chapters by recognized experts from across the globe with proven practical experience, this Handbook examines the economic, political and cultural aspects of development and social change. Promoting a strong interdisciplinary approach, and integrating knowledge with practice, it moves beyond current development theories which deal poorly with the non-causal and chaotic and thus provides an approach which is fit for purpose in the modern era of global complexity.

With its accessible coverage of complex issues this Handbook, will be of particular interest to students in the fields of development studies, development economics, comparative sociology and global politics. 

Contents:

1. Development and Social Change: A Genealogy for an Era of Complexity
Ronaldo Munck

Part I ECONOMIC ASPECTS
2. Towards An Ecology of Development
3. Development and Imperialism: Rethinking Old Concepts for a New Age
4. Development and the private sector: the challenge of extractives-led development in Uganda
5. Financialization and Development: Issues and Perspectives
6. Development and Regionalism
7. Small Loans, Big Problems: The Rise and Fall of Microcredit as Development Policy
8. ‘A rising tide lifts us all; don’t rock the boat!’: Economic growth and the legitimation of inequality

Part II: POLITICAL ASPECTS
9. Developing democracy, democratizing development: a backlash against hegemonic norms and practice?
10. Development NGOs, civil society and social change
11. The Developmental State Paradigm in the age of financialization
12. Development and Social Change in Latin America
13. Development in Africa as the global commodity super-cycle ends: African uprisings during and after ‘Africa Rising’
14. Tracing the Emergence of Sino-Capitalism: Social Change and Development in Contemporary China
15. Culture and Development: Contemporary Debates and Practices

Part III: SOCIAL ASPECTS
16. The Migration–Development Nexus: Current Challenges and Future Research Agenda
17. Requiem for the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach?
18. Development and Inequality: A Critical Analysis
19. Water and a Fluid International Development Agenda
20. Gender equality and the discursive landscape of non-governmental action in development: the inevitable failure of international NGOs to represent the interests of women?
21. Development and Poverty in the twenty-first Century: A challenge for research and social transformation
22. From the Ghost of Development to Buen Vivir (Living Well): Building Utopias 

Note: Includes bibliographical references and Index.