Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
About the Book Series
The series features innovative and original research at the regional and global scale. Its scope extends to scholarly works that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.
The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from junior authors. To submit proposals, please contact the Development Studies Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Adami, Dan Plesch
January 09, 2023
This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of...
The Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks: A System of Debt or Development?
1st Edition
By Adrian Robert Bazbauers, Susan Engel
September 26, 2022
This book explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development banks (MDBs). MDBs have their roots in the growing system of international finance and multilateral cooperation, with the first recognisable MDB being proposed by Latin America in financial cooperation with the US in ...
The Informal Economy Revisited: Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Martha Chen, Françoise Carré
May 06, 2022
This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority ...
Engendering Transformative Change in International Development
1st Edition
By Gillian Fletcher
August 06, 2020
The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all, with ‘no one left behind’. However, these goals will be impossible to achieve without addressing inequity, inequality, marginalisation, and ...
Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Global Dam-Building
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuseppina Siciliano, Frauke Urban
April 15, 2019
In recent years, both Chinese overseas investment and hydropower development have been topics of increasing interest and research, with Chinese actors acting as financiers, developers, builders and sub-contractors. Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia explores the governance and ...
Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development: Rethinking Opportunities and Agency from a Human Development Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Aurora Lopez-Fogues, Firdevs Melis Cin
March 05, 2019
Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development investigates to what extent young people have access to fair opportunities, the factors influencing their aspirations, and how able they are to pursue these aspirations and to carry out their life plans. The book positions itself in the ...
United States Assistance Policy in Africa: Exceptional Power
1st Edition
By Shai Divon, Bill Derman
January 17, 2019
From the end of WWII to the end of the Obama administration, development assistance in Africa has been viewed as an essential instrument of US foreign policy. Although many would characterise it as a form of aid aimed at enhancing the lives of those in the developing world, it can also be viewed as...
Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development
1st Edition
By Lata Narayanaswamy
June 20, 2018
Knowledge-for-development is under-theorised and under-researched within development studies, but as a set of policy objectives it is thriving within development practice. Donors and other agencies are striving to improve the flow of information within and between decision-makers and so-called ‘...
Rural Livelihoods in China: Political economy in transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Heather Xiaoquan Zhang
November 10, 2017
In recent decades, China has undergone rapid economic growth, industrialisation and urbanisation concomitant with deep and extensive structural and social change, profoundly reshaping the country’s development landscape and urban-rural relationships. This book applies livelihoods approaches to ...
Democratic Accountability and International Human Development: Regimes, institutions and resources
1st Edition
By Kamran Afzal, Mark Considine
April 11, 2017
Scholars and policymakers have long known that there is a strong link between human development and spending on key areas such as education and health. However, many states still neglect these considerations in favour of competing priorities, such as expanding their armies. This book examines how ...
Socio-Economic Insecurity in Emerging Economies: Building new spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Khayaat Fakier, Ellen Ehmke
April 11, 2017
Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and governments in all three countries are faced with similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by liberalization and structural adjustment. The ...
Development Discourse and Global History: From colonialism to the sustainable development goals
1st Edition
By Aram Ziai
February 07, 2017
The manner in which people have been talking and writing about ‘development’ and the rules according to which they have done so have evolved over time. Development Discourse and Global History uses the archaeological and genealogical methods of Michel Foucault to trace the origins of development ...