The following books are available for review in PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT
STUDIES. Please email me your top two choices, your affiliation, a land
address, and a fax number, and I shall try and send you one book (which
you keep). Reviews are expected to be 1,000 words long, to be delivered
by Aug 31 2010.
This list is also available online (constantly updated - please check to
see which books are left):
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/forsytht/PIDS_Books_for_Review.htm
PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES is an international journal cited in
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submitted papers on all aspects of international development. We
specialize on review papers of important topics of development theory
and practice, but can also publish case studies and other empirical
work.
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Understanding Economic Development: A global transition from poverty to
prosperity?
Colin White
Elgar, 2009 pp401
discussion of economic theory, and its application in development
practice; no econometrics
Why Doesn't Microfinance Work? The destructive rise of local
neoliberalism
M Bateman
Zed 2010 pp262
critical analysis of microfinance, poverty trap, commercialization etc
Chinese Economic Development and the Environment
S Managi and S Kaneko
Elgar, 2009 pp332
environmental economics, lots of econometrics; Kuznets curve, oil, gas
CO2 etc
Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of the
Transformation
S Andreasson
Zed, 2009 pp258
political economy, development theory, focus on Botswana, South Africa
and Zimbabwe
The Aid Triangle: Recognizing the human dynamics of dominance, justice
and identity
M MacLachlan, S Carr and E McAuliffe
Zed, 2010 pp172
critical review of aid thinking
Intellectual property and sustainable development: Development agendas
in a changing world
Eds: R Melendez-Ortiz and P Roffe
Elgar, 2009 pp459, 16 chps
wide review of general themes, and case studies from Asia and Africa
Health care systems in developing and transition countries: the role of
research evidence
Eds: D Masis and P Smith
Elgar, 2009 pp363; 10 chps
health care, some econometrics, finance, design, implementation
Markets and Society: The great transformation today
Eds: C. Hann and K. Hart
Cambridge UP 2009 pp320, 15 chapters
a new discussion of Polanyi's 1944: Great Transformation, looking at
market and society from multidisciplinary perspectives
Towards a culture of participation? The influence of organizational
culture on participation and empowerment of 'beneficiaries.': A case
study of social organization in Pretoria
J Verholter
Verlag: LIT, 2009 pp96
Case study monograph, NGO management
Solving the riddle of globalization and development
Eds M Agosin, D Bloom, G Chapelier and J Saigal
UNCTAD, UNDP, Routledge, 2009 300pp 11 chapters
non-econometrics, analyses of trade, investment and local development
benefits, with case studies
Counter-terrorism, aid and civil society: Before and after the war on
terror
J Howell and J Lind
Palgrave, 2009 pp242
politics, aid, civil society, terrorism, Kenya, Afghanistan, India
Climate change and sustainable development: New challenges for poverty
reduction
Ed M Salih
Elgar, 2009 pp311, 14 chps
various chapters including on polycentric governance (Ostrom), justice
(Gupta, Hartmann), and other aspects of 'development' and cc
Protest and social movements in the developing world
Eds S Shigetomi and K Makino
Elgar, 2009 pp246, 10 chapters
contextual analysis of opportunities for political protest, various case
studies from Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, SAfrica, etc
Gender discrimination in land ownership
Ed Prem Chowdhury
Sage: Land reform in India: Volume 11, 2009 pp314, 14
chapters
14 chapters focusing on different provinces of India, reviewing
different themes of gender and land tenure. Very focused on India.
Qualitative, legal, political, social, analysis.
Insecure spaces: Peacekeeping, power and performance in Haiti, Kosovo
and Liberia
P Higate and M Henry
Zed, 2009 pp189
qualitative analysis of power through UN peacekeeping
Integration and Globalization: Challenges for developed and developing
countries
Eds: H Marques, E Soukiazia, and P Cerqueira
Elgar, 2009 pp184, 9 chapters
economics, with some small amount of econometrics, section on Europe,
another on the global economy; exchange rate, spillovers, innovation,
post-Kyoto, CGE etc
Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development and Nature in the Pacific
Lowlands
K Asher
Duke, 2009 pp247
ethnography, social movements, Colombia, black identity, resource
development versus biodiversity protection
Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions
Eds M Hitchcock, V King and M Parnwell
NIAS, 2009 16 chapters, pp358
qualitative discussions of economic, social and cultural implications of
tourism, some updates re terrorism, etc; lots of case studies, very
solid looking
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO (2nd ed)
R Peet
Zed, 2009 pp287
critique of neo-liberalism, globalization, etc
After 2015: International Development Policy at a Crossroads
A Sumner and M Tiwari
Ashgate 2009 pp215
Qualitative, political analysis of the MDGs, esp growth, governance and
globalization
Knowledge to Policy: Making the most of development research
F Carden
Sage, IDRC, 2009 16 chps, pp.218
Analysis of how to make knowledge work in influencing policy; 23 case
studies of water, poverty, resources, ICT, etc. Aimed at 'users' and
'development managers'
Religion in development: Rewriting the secular script
S Deneulin with M Bano
Zed, 2009 pp184
useful overview of religion in debate and conflicting traditions,
qualitative
Gender and HIV/AIDS: Critical perspectives from the developing world
eds: J Boesten and N Poku
Ashgate, 2009 pp201, 9 chapters
various studies looking at underlying vulnerabilities, targeted
interventions and rewriting gender relations, examples from Africa
(mainly), Peru, Haiti and India
Protest, repression and political regimes: An empirical analysis of
Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Sabine Carey
Routledge, 2009 pp138
comparison of how different regimes have used repression to respond to
protest
Social Protection in Africa
F Ellis, S Devereux, and P White
Elgar, 2009 pp294
vulnerability, assets, targeting, etc, lots of case studies from
countries in southern Africa
Indigenous development in the Andes: Culture, power and transnationalism
R Anolina, N Laurie and S Radcliffe
Duke University Press, 2009 pp345
cultural analysis of development, water politics, gender,
professionalization, identity, networks
Transnational corporations and development policy: critical perspectives
Eds: E Rugraff, D Sanchez-Ancochea and A Sumner
Palgrave, 2009 pp321
overviews plus case studies from China, India, Africa, Vietnam, some
stats but no econometrics
The Road not travelled: Education reform in the Middle East and North
Africa
World Bank, 2008 pp359
evaluation of education reforms
Africa's future, Africa's challenge: Early childhood care and
development in sub-Saharan Africa
Eds: M Garcia, A Pence, and J Evans
World Bank, 2008 pp525, 24 chapters
various aspects of early childhood care, health, education, etc,
international comparisons
Understanding tourism: a critical introduction
K Hannam and Dan Knox
Sage, 2010 pp220
textbook, introductory work, overview of different themes of tourism in
international context
Tourist Cultures: Identity, place and the traveller
S Wearing, D Stevenson and T Young
Sage, 2010 pp169
culture and development, space and representation, landscapes of
tourism, experiences of the 'other'
Planning, monitoring and evaluation in development organizations:
sharing training and facilitation experiences
John de Coninck et al
Sage, 2008 9 chpts, pp201
Manual for development workers, nicely illustrated, focus on India
The Cairo Consensus: demographic surveys, women's empowerment, and
regime change in population policy
Saul Halfon
Lexington, 2007 pp260, 10 chapters
Social analysis of 'surveys' as an underpoliticized, unexamined form of
data generation; implications for policy and unrepresented groups
French NGOs in the Global Era: A distinctive role in international
development
G Cumming
Palgrave, 2009 pp257, 10 chapters
in-depth analysis of origin, role and nature of French development NGOs,
qualitative
Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race and Identity
Eds C Korieh, and P Okeke-Ihejirika
Routledge, 2009 pp291, 15 chapters
cultural studies, various cases from around the world
Africa's Turn?
Edward Miguel
MIT Press, 2009 pp158
A 'Boston Review' book - ie like a long op-ed, concerning trends in
Africa, economic reform, social progress, and critiqued by nine
commentators including R Bates, P Collier etc
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Dr. Tim Forsyth
Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics
London WC2A 2AE
England
Editorial board member of 'Progress in Development Studies'
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