Theories of Development

by Peet, Richard; Hartwick, Elaine

• ISBN13: 9781572304895
• ISBN10: 1572304898
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-09
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

The stakes involved in development debates are enormous. While development can use the productive resources of society to improve the living conditions of the world's most vulnerable people, it can also form the basis of intense manipulative power on behalf of elites. This important new text surveys the leading theories and models of economic and social development. Chapters examine sociological, economic, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, feminist, and radical democratic approaches, as well as an array of development models including modernization, dependency, and neoliberalism. Reaching conclusions at odds with much of the recent literature, this volume is critical of neoliberal, market-driven economic growth, arguing instead that an alternative, democratic form of development remains a viable possibility.

Author Biography

Richard Peet is a professor in the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University. He was editor of Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography from 1969-1985, and coeditor of Economic Geography from 1992-1998.
Elaine R. Hartwick received her doctorate from the Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1995. She has taught at the University of Southern Maine, Central Connecticut State College, Clark University, and Keene State College.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Geography of Development	p. 3
Measuring the Geography of Development	p. 4
Critique--I	p. 7
Critique--II	p. 10
Critical Modernist Development	p. 11
Ethics of Development	p. 12
Arguments within Western Developmentalism	p. 12
Economic Theories of Growth and Development	p. 17
Preclassical Beginnings	p. 18
Classical Economics	p. 23
The Neoclassical Interlude	p. 31
Dynamic Analysis	p. 35
Keynesian Growth Theory	p. 37
Development Economics	p. 40
Counterrevolution in Development Economics	p. 47
Neoliberalism	p. 48
World Bank Policy	p. 53
Critique	p. 57
Sociological Theories of Modernization	p. 65
Naturalism	p. 66
Rationalism	p. 68
Structural Functionalism	p. 71
Sociological Modernization Theory	p. 76
Economic Modernization Theory	p. 77
Psychocultural Theories of Modernization	p. 79
Historical Stages of Modernization	p. 80
Modernization Geography	p. 83
Critique	p. 85
Marxist and Neo-Marxist Theories	p. 91
Idealism and Materialism	p. 91
Dialectics	p. 92
Production as the Transformation of Nature	p. 93
Production as Social Relations	p. 95
Mode of Production	p. 99
Development and Transformation	p. 102
Structural Marxism	p. 103
Imperialism	p. 104
Dependency Theory	p. 107
World Systems Theory	p. 111
Regulation Theory	p. 115
Critique	p. 118
Poststructuralism, Postcolonialism, and Postdevelopmentalism	p. 123
The Enlightenment and Its Critics	p. 124
Post-Enlightenment Criticisms	p. 127
Power-Truth-Knowledge	p. 129
Postcolonialism	p. 132
Intellectual Dependency Theory	p. 137
Rethinking Development	p. 138
The Poststructural Turn in Development Studies	p. 142
Encountering Development	p. 145
Postdevelopmentalism	p. 150
Critique	p. 153
Feminist Theories of Development	p. 163
Feminist Politics of Development	p. 163
Socialist Feminism	p. 166
Feminist Epistemology	p. 170
Feminist Criticism of Development Theory	p. 176
Women, Development, Theory	p. 177
Women in Development	p. 179
Women and Development	p. 183
Gender and Development	p. 187
Women, Environment, and Development	p. 188
Postmodernism and Development	p. 191
Critique	p. 192
Critical Modernism, Radical Democracy, Development	p. 195
Critical Modernism	p. 196
The Critique of Capitalism Modernity	p. 199
Ethical Development	p. 202
New Social Movements	p. 203
Radical Democracy	p. 206
Alternative Development	p. 208
References	p. 211
Index	p. 229
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