Recognition and Redistribution: Beyond International Development

by Weber; Heloise

• ISBN13: 9780415448178
• ISBN10: 0415448174
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is an innovative and insightful approach to the global politics of development. The authors challenge conventional perspectives of, and approaches to, development and offer alternative accounts of the politics of development from the perspective of non-state centred and non-state centric approaches. The authors offer critical reinterpretations of historical experiences of development processes and together with insightful analysis of contemporary development strategies this is a genuinely new perspective on the global politics of development. Moreover, in moving beyond more '¬Üeconomistic'¬" approaches to development this book seeks to uncover the complexity of development in ways that account for social relations of power and identity. The authors successfully demonstrate the transdisciplinary nature of the politics of development in their respective engagement with political theory, anthropological and sociological perspectives in ways that provide an overall integrated approach to the politics of recognition and redistribution in development. In contrast to globalisation calling into question the idea and practices of international development, this study situates the question of the politics of the '¬Üinternational'¬" within a broader historical context of global social relations of power and dispossession, and their impact on states, regions and cultures. In framing the project as whole through the concepts of recognition and redistribution, this is a genuine effort to '¬Ürethink development'¬". It is timely in an era of global politics and globalisation wherein both issues of identity and struggles over development challenge us to re-rethink disciplinary boundaries.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. History, Power and Knowledge: The Context 2. Keeping the World Safe for Primary Colors: The Idea and Practice of Nation-Building and the Transformation of the North-South Divide, 1945-2005 3. The Promises of Progress: The Contradictions and Challenges of Global Modernity 4. Challenging the Globalization Project: Social Regulation and Development in the Idiom of Islam 5. I Think therefore I am Developed: Social Relations and the Developmental Subject The Global Dimensions of the International Development Project in Social and Political Contradictions 6. Making Global Governance Work for the Poor: International Development and the Democratic Deficit 7. Governing Development: The 'Political' and the 'Economic' in the Restructuring of the "Third World" 8. Insecurity and Modernity: The Rhetoric of the "Failed State" and International Development 9. Making Sense of Multinationals in Development Theory: A Neo-Gramscian Reading of the Global Compact 10. From Dis-Embedding Social Liberalism to Globalizing Neoliberalism: Development Studies and the Changing International Order 11. Global Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Discipline and Resistance Recognition and Redistribution: Beyond the International 12. Re-Envisioning Global Development: Conceptual and Methodological Issues 13. Development and Inequality in World Politics: A Critique of Methodological Choices, Disciplines and Boundaries 14. Beyond the North-South Divide: Rethinking the Production-Development Nexus 15. Towards a Dialogical Political Economy of Development 16. The Poverty of the Global Order 17. Conclusion: Beyond International Development