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Routledge Critical Development Studies


About the Series

The global crisis, coming at the end of three decades of uneven capitalist development and neoliberal globalization that have devastated the economies and societies of people across the world, especially in the developing societies of the global south, cries out for a more critical, proactive approach to the study of international development. The challenge of creating and disseminating such an approach, to provide the study of international development with a critical edge, is the project of a global network of activist development scholars concerned and engaged in using their research and writings to help effect transformative social change that might lead to a better world.

This series will provide a forum and outlet for the publication of books in the broad interdisciplinary field of critical development studies—to generate new knowledge that can be used to promote transformative change and alternative development.

The editors of the series welcome the submission of original manuscripts that focus on issues of concern to the growing worldwide community of activist scholars in this field.

To submit proposals, please contact the Development Studies Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).

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Postdevelopment in Practice Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies

Postdevelopment in Practice: Alternatives, Economies, Ontologies

1st Edition

Edited By Elise Klein, Carlos Eduardo Morreo
April 23, 2019

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whilst also pushing beyond theory to uncover...

The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit Development, debt and disillusion

The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit: Development, debt and disillusion

1st Edition

Edited By Milford Bateman, Stephanie Blankenburg, Richard Kozul-Wright
August 22, 2018

In the mid-1980s the international development community helped launch what was to quickly become one of the most popular poverty reduction and local economic development policies of all time. Microcredit, the system of disbursing tiny micro-loans to the poor to help them to establish their own ...

Neoextractivism and Capitalist Development

Neoextractivism and Capitalist Development

1st Edition

By Dennis C. Canterbury
May 10, 2018

The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resources has increased, leading to greater attention to the role of resource extraction in the development of the exporting countries. The term ...

The Class Struggle in Latin America Making History Today

The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today

1st Edition

By James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer
July 11, 2017

The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts ...

Moving Beyond Capitalism

Moving Beyond Capitalism

1st Edition

Edited By Cliff DuRand
September 19, 2016

The book speaks to the widespread quest for concrete alternative ways forward 'beyond capitalism' in the face of the prevailing corporatocracy and a capitalist system in crisis. It examines a number of institutions and practices now being built in the nooks and crannies of present societies and ...

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