Routledge Studies in Development and Society
About the Book Series
The development of different societies is a complex and diverse matter. This series incorporates a multidisciplinary approach to explore the impact of development theory and practice. In particular, the series highlights the importance of current research on:
* gender and equality
* sustainable development
* environment protection
* security.
Titles in the series offer authoritative insights into developmental issues of regional and global importance.
Social Innovations in Post-Soviet Countries
1st Edition
By Bakhrom Radjabov
August 26, 2024
This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Following the dissolution of the USSR, organisations such as the UNDP have encouraged local communities and governments to innovate in order to find solutions to existing social ...
Children, Youth, and Participatory Arts for Peacebuilding: Lessons from Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia, and Nepal
1st Edition
Edited
By Ananda Breed, Helena-Ulrike Marambio, Kirrily Pells, Rajib Timalsina
June 14, 2024
This book demonstrates how participatory arts-based approaches can help children and youth contribute to peacebuilding within post-conflict contexts and to their communities. Cultural forms of storytelling through visual arts, drama, music, and dance can help to enhance post-conflict community ...
Women's Economic Empowerment: Insights from Africa and South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Grantham, Gillian Dowie, Arjan de Haan
March 05, 2021
This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and ...
Civil Society in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Palash Kamruzzaman
December 18, 2020
In recent years civil society has been seen as a key route for democracy promotion and solving development ‘problems’ in low-income countries. However, the very concept of civil society is deeply rooted in European traditions and values. In pursuing civil society reform in non-Western countries, ...
The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda
1st Edition
By Stephanie E.L. Bengtsson, Bilal Barakat, Raya Muttarak
October 17, 2019
The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. While it is widely understood that there is a positive relationship ...
Feminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence against Women: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Mahnaz Akhami, Yakın Ertürk, Ann Elizabeth Mayer
September 08, 2018
Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights. It can affect almost every aspect of a woman's life, including the right to choose a partner, inherit property, hold a job, and obtain child custody. Often referred to as family law, these laws have ...
Governance, Development, and Social Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Chathapuram S. Ramanathan, Subhabrata Dutta
August 09, 2018
This book explores how many issues related to development and governance –including migration, disaster management, environmental justice, peace and security, sustainability, public-private partnerships, and terrorism – impact the practice of social work. It takes a global, comparative ...
Cultures of Development: Vietnam, Brazil and the Unsung Vanguard of Prosperity
1st Edition
By Jonathan Warren
April 23, 2018
The North Atlantic development establishment has had a blemished track record over the past 65 years. In addition to a sizeable portfolio of failure, the few economic success stories in the developing world, such as South Korea and China, have been achieved by rejecting the advice of Western ...
Informal Urban Street Markets: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Clifton Evers, Kirsten Seale
February 12, 2018
Through an international range of research, this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor and consumption, but also in regards to cultural and spatial contingencies. In many places, street ...
The Language of Global Development: A Misleading Geography
1st Edition
By Marcin Solarz
January 30, 2017
Terms such as "Third World", "developing countries" and "Global South" are ubiquitous in the discipline of development studies, but they are often poorly defined, ideologically weighted and misleading. Taking an intellectual history approach, this book examines the most commonly used spatial terms...
World Bank and Urban Development: From Projects to Policy
1st Edition
By Edward Ramsamy
December 18, 2015
As one of the world’s most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Bank’s urban programs and their complex relationship to urban policy ...
Development, Power, and the Environment: Neoliberal Paradox in the Age of Vulnerability
1st Edition
By Md Saidul Islam
September 08, 2015
Unmasking the neoliberal paradox, this book provides a robust conceptual and theoretical synthesis of development, power and the environment. With seven case studies on global challenges such as under-development, food regime, climate change, dam building, identity politics, and security ...