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Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so important to Americans? These travel stories show how encounters with Africans lead to a problematic desire to save Africa.
Drawing on both Development Studies and post-Soviet literature, this study examines projects in Siberia since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Focusing on... Læs mere
This book outlines a taxonomy of development practice using the notion of reflexivity, and examines it in the case of two countries... Læs mere
This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept. It aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation, focusing specifically on... Læs mere
The book examines how hegemonic development ideas and practices emerged in the context of the changing world order post-1945 and how this transformation was... Læs mere
This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in... Læs mere
Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals? Or do they co-opt and coerce groups... Læs mere
Breger Bush argues that derivatives markets work in the development context as engines of inequality and instability, aggravating poverty among those they are purported to help and highlighting some of the dangers of neoliberal globalization for the poor.
Local governments encounter many problems, and although there is not one panacea that works internationally, this book argues that there are... Læs mere
Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book... Læs mere
Confusion about governance abounds. Many lack appreciation of how different traditions of thought in the social sciences contribute to our... Læs mere
The book provides critical perspectives that reach beyond the technical approaches of international financial institutions and... Læs mere