New Development Management : Critiquing the Dual Modernization

'Development management' is an idea that blends the seemingly innocuous claims of managerialism with notions of modernity and utopian ideals of 'third world' progress. This book views both phenomena as problematic and modernizing interventions. In doing so, it overturns and reclaims such ideas as participation, community, governance, NGOs, and civil society. The contributors argue that the practices of development are often threaded together by the language of managerialism - reports, logframe, encounters with the boss - yet all of these serve to further development's disengagement from the mundane.

In voicing such concerns about the way development is going, and about the encroachment of managerialism, The New Development Management will breathe fresh life into post-development debates.

Sadhvi Dar is Lecturer in Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics at Queen Mary, University of London. She holds a degree in Psychology and received her PhD in Management Studies from the University of Cambridge. She has worked in the development sector in India and the UK and is involved in a number of development projects in London.

Bill Cooke is Professor of Management and Society at Lancaster University Management School. Previously he worked at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester School of Management, and Manchester Business School, all within what is now the University of Manchester, and at Teesside University. He is co-editor, with Uma Kothari, of Participation: The New Tyranny? (Zed 2001).