Alternative development : unravelling marginalization, voicing change

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Author:

Brun, Cathrine

ISBN:

9781472409348

Publication Information:

Surrey : Ashgate, 2014

Physical Description:

xviii, 355 s.

Contents:

Preface; Introduction: Alternative development: unravelling marginalization, voicing change, Cathrine Brun and Piers Blaikie. Section 1 Knowledge, Policy and Practice of Development: Towards an engaged political ecology, Piers Blaikie; Teaching to learn -- learning to teach: learning experiences from the reality of an ever-changing world, Hans Skotte; Foreign direct investment, local development and poverty reduction: the sustainability of the salmon industry in Southern Chile, Arnt Floisand and Jonathan R. Barton; Housing the urban poor in metropolitan Accra, Ghana: what is the role of the state in the era of liberalization and globalization?, George Owusu; Implementing international consensus on women in development: context, policy and practice, Ingrid Eide. Section 2 Alternative Geographies of Gender and Development: Muted power -- gender segregation and female power, Vibeke Vagenes; Gender, politics and development in Accra, Ghana, Samuel Agyei-Mensah and Charlotte

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Brun, Cathrine

Blaikie, Piers

Jones, Michael

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This book brings together a collection of essays that discuss alternative development and its relevance for local/global processes of marginalization and change in the Global South. Alternative development questions who the producers of development knowledges and practices are, and aims at decentring development and geographical knowledge from the Anglo-American centre and the Global North. It involves resistance to dominant political-economic processes in order to further the possibilities for non-exploitative and just forms of development. By discussing how to unravel marginalization and voice change through alternative methods, actors and concepts, the book provides useful guidance on understanding the relationship between theory and practice. The main strength of the book is that it calls for a central role for alternative development in the current development discourse, most notably related to justice, rights, globalization, forced migration, conflict and climate change. The book provides new ways of engaging with alternative development thinking and making development alternatives relevant.