Critical Development Studies: An Introduction: 1 - Softcover

Veltmeyer, Henry; Delgado Wise, Raśl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788530055 ISBN 13: 9781788530057

Publisher: Practical Action Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

Development studies is typically used by agencies concerned with improving the living conditions of people across the world by advancing capitalism as the institutional and policy framework of the global development process. Veltmeyer and Delgado Wise, on the contrary, view capitalism as the problem rather than the solution, and provide a critical development perspective on some of the major issues that afflict people and countries across the world. This introductory volume provides readers with an overview of the key issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the nature of the global capitalist system and an analysis of the dynamics associated with the development process, the agrarian question, the outmigration and urbanization of rural areas, the formation of a global working class and the emergence of powerful resistance movements such as the Zapatistas.

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About the Authors

Henry Veltmeyer is at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico and annually engages in an extended program of research and public lectures across Latin America.

Raśl Delgado Wise is professor and former director of the Doctoral Program in Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788530055
• ISBN 13: 9781788530057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140