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.
Why Justice in Innovation and Development Matters: A Relational Egalitarian Perspective
1st Edition
By Theo Papaioannou
April 07, 2026
This book argues that justice needs to be imbedded in innovation and development, both so that the fruits of technologies are distributed fairly, and to ensure that social relations in the process of generation and application of new knowledge are equalised. Drawing together updated and new ...
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
October 27, 2025
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 ...
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 ...
Quality in Higher Education as a Tool for Human Development: Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Zimbabwe
1st Edition
By Patience Mukwambo
September 30, 2021
Whilst many studies have explored how quality in higher education is conceptualised in the Global North, less attention has been paid to quality in higher education in Africa and the Global South. This book uses the human development and capabilities approach to demonstrate how quality in teaching ...
Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights: Identity, Advocacy and Norms
1st Edition
By Corinne Lennox
August 02, 2021
This book explores the ways in which minority groups across the world are reshaping the international minority rights protection system. It documents the actions of four major groups that are using transnational social mobilisation to achieve recognition of their identities and their rights. The ...
Cultural Resistance and Security from Below: Power and Escape through Capoeira
1st Edition
By Zoë Marriage
March 31, 2021
This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century, capoeira is now a cultural institution and export that is protected by the ...
The Prior Consultation of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Inside the Implementation Gap
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Wright, Alexandra Tomaselli
March 31, 2021
This book delves into the reasons behind and the consequences of the implementation gap regarding the right to prior consultation and the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.In recent years, the economic and political projects of Latin American States have...
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, ...
Inclusive Innovation for Development: Meeting the Demands of Justice through Public Action
1st Edition
By Theo Papaioannou
September 30, 2020
Innovation has the potential to address a number of development challenges such as combating poverty and delivering health services, but all too often technological progress has failed to consider the needs of the poor, and has actually served to increase inequalities, rather than sharing out the ...
The Gates Foundation's Rise to Power: Private Authority in Global Politics
1st Edition
By Adam Moe Fejerskov
September 30, 2020
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making. Driven by fierce confidence and immense expectations about its ability to change the world through its normative and ...
Poverty Alleviation and Poverty of Aid: Pakistan
1st Edition
By Fayyaz Baqir
June 30, 2020
Aid effectiveness has emerged as an intensely debated issue amongst policy makers, donors, development practitioners, civil society and academics during the past decade. This debate revolves around one important question: does official development assistance complement, duplicate or disregard the ...