Development studies

This book examines the ways in which colonialism continues to define the political economy of Nigeria sixty years after gaining political independence from the British.

This book identifies the main challenges to confronting global health (in)securities at three levels.

Policing and ecological crises - and all the inequalities, discrimination, and violence they entail - are pressing contemporary problems.

Applying a trans-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive, research-based guide to understanding, implementing, and strengthening sustainable community health in diverse international settings.

This book examines the construction of an innovation system in Brazil's health industries over the past twenty years.

There is an emerging consensus that what is projected as democratic governance and justice in Africa requires a re-calibration, in particular, in relation to the constitutive demos, human rights, the realisation of commitments at various governance levels and the convergence between these ideations.

This book makes an important contribution to the conflict literature and to new ways of thinking about agency and social life in fragile contexts.

This book conceptualises the ongoing hydropower expansion in Southwest China as a socio-political and transnational project transcending the construction of dams.

This book explains the political origins and evolution of capitalist institutions in developing countries by looking at distinct patterns in the electronics industry in three Southeast Asian countries: Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.

This is a comprehensive regional geography synthesis of the most important physical and human spatial processes that shaped Serbia and led to many interesting regional issues, not only to Serbia but to the Balkans and Europe.

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age.

This edited collection investigates the human dimension of urban renewal, using a range of case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, India and North America, to explore how the conception and delivery of regeneration initiatives can strengthen or undermine local communities.

This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition.

This book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice.

This book critically addresses concepts and analyses related to the higher education and development nexus in Africa.

This book explores the variations in the transformation of the Asian developmental state in South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.

This book presents an accessible overview of the seven key concepts of city diplomacy (development cooperation, peacekeeping, economy, innovation, environment, culture, and migration).

This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders' legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries.

This book examines research using anti-oppressive, arts-based methods to promote social change  in oppressed and marginalized communities.

This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the practice of sustainability through a diverse range of case studies spanning across varied fields and areas of expertise.

This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry.

This book contains the full research papers presented at  the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University &  Research  in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities.

This book investigates how NGOs in authoritarian states, such as China, craft accountability and legitimacy to ensure their survival.

This book explains why there is a pronounced disjuncture between R2P's habitual invocation and its actual influence, and why it will not make the transformative progress its proponents claim.

This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies.

This book explores how environmental policies are made and enforced in Africa.

The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to discuss them in relation to policy developments in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe.

This book covers initiatives related to higher education's public mission such as university-community engagement, knowledge transfer, economic development, and social responsibility, using empirical and conceptual cases in the US, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA.

This edited book offers a collection of highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods in peace and conflict across political time and space.

This book contributes to the current revival of dependency approaches for the analysis of global capitalism.

This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans' ideas on the laws of motion of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally, international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics of the international system.

In this book Fulya Apaydin argues that labor responses to dramatic technological change are influenced by the political institutions of the Global South more than any other factor.

 This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South.

This book offers engagements with topics in mainline theology that concern the lifelines in and of the Pacific (Pasifika).

This book is an open invitation to the enterprise of re-imagining an alternative decolonial development project in Africa.

This book debunks the foundations of contemporary government-led development policy.

This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South.

The book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility.

This edited collection draws upon interdisciplinary research to explore new dimensions in the politics of image and aid.

This book explores how the recent development of Muslim countries as a group has fallen far short of non-Muslim countries, which, some have concluded, may be a result of Islamic teachings.

This handbook provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the study of social movements and collective action, discussing the different disciplinary approaches that have developed.

This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy of resistance and hope for marginalized social groups.

This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses.

Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications.

This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa.