Development studies

This is an original approach to debates about indigenous knowledge.

This is an original approach to debates about indigenous knowledge.

Since the 1970s, Turkey has faced some of the most serious crises since the Republic was established in 1923.

Since the 1990s, most African economies and public spheres have been liberalised, and new civil society actors have emerged.

Millions of people around the world live in countries torn apart by war, where violence and suffering are part of everyday life.

The rise of the BRICS - a bloc of emerging economies, comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is one of the defining features of the modern global economy.

The rise of the BRICS - a bloc of emerging economies, comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is one of the defining features of the modern global economy.

Human security is a key element in the measure of well-being, and a hot topic in anthropology and development studies.

Fair trade is widely regarded as a universal good.

What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy?

Tourism is booming world wide - it makes up a massive part of the global economy.

In The Implosion of Capitalism world-renowned political economist Samir Amin connects the key events of our times - financial crisis, Eurozone implosion, the emerging BRIC nations and the rise of political Islam - identifying them as symptoms of a profound systemic crisis.

In The Implosion of Capitalism world-renowned political economist Samir Amin connects the key events of our times - financial crisis, Eurozone implosion, the emerging BRIC nations and the rise of political Islam - identifying them as symptoms of a profound systemic crisis.

The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at the Fair Trade consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign.

The Fair Trade Scandal takes aim at the Fair Trade consumer movement which many assume to be entirely benign.

The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights.

The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights.

Western aid is in decline.

Western aid is in decline.

This book examines the failure of 'development' in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic.

This book examines the failure of 'development' in Central America, where despite billions of dollars of development funding and positive indicators of economic growth, poverty remains entrenched and violence endemic.

The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads.

The world's food system is broken, and today's peasant societies are at a crossroads.

This book explores the practice of organisation development and group change in a way that will appeal to anyone involved in working towards social transformation.

Foreign aid is about charity.

Foreign aid is about charity.

Under the guise of 'development', a globalizing capitalism has continued to cause poverty through dispossession and the exploitation of labour across the Global South.

While leftist governments have been elected across Latin America, this 'Pink Tide' has so far failed to reach Peru.

Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence.

Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence.

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor.

Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative.

Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative.

Voicing Demands is a collection of analytical narratives of what has happened to feminist voice, a key pathway to women's empowerment.

Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Shortlisted for the Fage and Oliver Prize 2018From December 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.

The 2008 financial crisis revitalised the question of whether capitalism was working and how it might be overturned.

The 2008 financial crisis revitalised the question of whether capitalism was working and how it might be overturned.

This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux.

This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux.

What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country?

What really happens when the World Bank imposes its policies on a country?

The sustainable development goals signed in 2016 marked a new phase in global development thinking, one which is focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements.

The sustainable development goals signed in 2016 marked a new phase in global development thinking, one which is focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements.

While leftist governments have been elected across Latin America, this 'Pink Tide' has so far failed to reach Peru.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.

Transnational surrogacy the creation of babies across borders has become big business.