> Dear All
>
[Apologies for cross postings]
> The Routledge Encyclopedia of International Development is in its final stages of commissioning entries. We have a few remaining topics. Would you like to write these?
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Please see the following website for a full list of entries:
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/forsytht/development_encyclopedia.htm
but some outstanding topics include:
Economic exclusion zones (500 words)
Energy policy (1000 words)
Electrification and power-sector reform (1000)
International economic order (500)
Labor makets (1000 words)
Mechanization (1000)
Job security (500)
United Nations (summary of purpose and agencies relevant to development (2000 words)
Communes / cooperatives (500)
Commodification (500 words)
Short sharp shock - and critique (500)
Family Law (domestic law) and development (1000 words)
> Nutrition (1000 words)
> Disease eradication (ie smallpox etc) (1000 words)
> Drugs (1000) [ie illegal drugs, not pharmaceuticals]
> Emergency Healthcare (500)
> Famine prevention (500 words)
> Reproductive rights (500 words)
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> If interested, please drop me a line - perhaps after looking at the website - and please say why you would be a good candidate. We DO pay for entries, but it is not huge. We are looking for entries to be done by late June (ie in 3 months from now).
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> For info, the Encyclopedia has been compiled with the help of some leading scholars in Development Studies worldwide (see below), and aims to be the leading reference work on Development Studies for students, academics and practitioners.
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> This is a truly international and authoritative work, and a chance to influence the discipline. We hope you will wish to take part!
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> Many thanks!!
>
> Dr. Tim Forsyth
> Development Studies Institute
> London School of Economics
>
> Routledge Encyclopedia of International Development
> http://personal.lse.ac.uk/forsytht/development_encyclopedia.htm
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> Editorial consultants for the Encyclopedia:
> Bina Agarwal (Delhi)
> Barbara Harriss-White (Oxford)
> Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia)
> Christine Obbo (Paris)
> Gabriel Palma (Cambridge)
> James Scott (Yale)
> Judith Tendler (MIT)
> Robert Wade (LSE)
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