Development Theory: Deconstructions/Reconstructions (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Nederveen Pieterse, Jan

ISBN 10: 0761952934 / ISBN 13: 9780761952930

Published by SAGE Publications Ltd, London, 2002

About this Item

195 pp, index. Light corner wear.

Seller Inventory # C0182

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Development Theory: Deconstructions/Reconstructions (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761952934
• ISBN 13: 9780761952930
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

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Synopsis

The thoughts and works of one of the leading commentators on the theory and policy of development are contained in this volume. The book looks widely over issues of Eurocentricism, critical globalism, intercultural transaction, delinking and post-development theory and presents ideas for the future of the field. Throughout, the author tries to connect issues of development with the latest thinking in sociology, critical theory and social science generally. This comprehensive book will be used as a barometer of critical thought in the field today. The writing has come out of many years of teaching and travelling in developing countries and reflects the author′s unusual and detailed experience of conditions in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

About the Author

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and cultural anthropology. He was previously at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University of Amsterdam. He holds a part-time chair at Maastricht University. He currently focuses on new trends in twenty-first-century globalization and the implications of economic crisis. He has been visiting a professor in Argentina, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and Thailand. He is on the editorial board of Clarity Press, the Journal of Global Studies and e-global, and is associate editor of the European Journal of Social Theory, Ethnicities, Third Text and the Journal of Social Affairs.