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.
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 ...
The End of the Developmental State?
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Williams
September 08, 2015
The End of the Developmental State? brings together leading scholars of development to assess the current status of the "developmental state" in several developing and transitional economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, Brazil and India. Has the concept ...
Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Women and Identity in Guyana
1st Edition
By Linda Peake, D. Alissa Trotz
December 01, 2014
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and ...
Psychology of Aid
1st Edition
By Stuart Carr, Mac MacLachlan
December 01, 2014
Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the motivational foundations. Designed as a practical tool for looking at development projects in a new and structured way, the authors bring many of the ...
The Life Region: The Social and Cultural Ecology of Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Per Raberg
December 01, 2014
This book launches a strategy for sustainable development, starting from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or 'Life Region'. Special emphasis is placed on the situation of the provincial and peripheral regions of Europe and the ...