About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface; Introduction: Alternative development: unravelling marginalization, voicing change, Cathrine Brun and Piers Blaikie. Part I 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 Fløysand 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. Part II Alternative Geographies of Gender and Development: Muted power - gender segregation and female power, Vibeke Vågenes; Gender, politics and development in Accra, Ghana, Samuel Agyei-Mensah and Charlotte Wrigley-Asante; Ignored voices of globalization: women’s agency in coping with human rights violations in an export processing zone in Sri Lanka, Chamila Attanapola; `No more tears, sister’: feminist politics in Sri Lanka, Jennifer Hyndman. Part III Human-Environment Relations, Environmental Discourses and Development: Renegotiating local values: the case of Fanjingshan reserve, China, Stuart C. Aitken, Li An, Sarah Wandersee and Yeqin Yang; Rights to rights: Adivasi (tribal) women in the context of not-so-silent revolution in Odisha, India, Smita Mishra Panda; The reemergence of environmental causation in migration studies and its relevance for Bangladesh, Haakon Lein; Discourses that hide: gender, migration and security in climate change, Bernadette Resurrección. Part IV On the Margins: Conflict, Migration and Development: Impacts of internal displacement on women’s agency in two resettlement contexts in Sri Lanka, Fazeeha Azmi; Coping capacity of small-scale border fish traders in Cambodia, Kyoko Kusakabe; Spontaneous frontier migration in Sri Lanka: conflict and cooperation in state-migrant relations, Berit Helene Vandsemb; Researching forced migration at the interface of theory, policy and practice, Cathrine Brun and Ragnhild Lund. Part V Conclusion: Researching alternative development: an autobiographical discussion with Ragnhild Lund, Michael Jones; Index.
About the Author :
Cathrine Brun and Michael Jones are both at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway and Piers Blaikie is Professor Emeritus of the University of East Anglia, UK. Cathrine Brun, Piers Blaikie, Hans Skotte, Arnt Floysand, Jonathan R. Barton, George Owusu, Ingrid Eide, Vibeke Vagenes, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Charlotte Wrigley-Asante, Chamila Attanapola, Jennifer Hyndman, Stuart C. Aitken, Li An, Sarah Wandersee, Yeqin Yang,, Smita Mishra Panda, Haakon Lein, Bernadette Resurreccion, Fazeeha Azmi, Kyoko Kusakabe, Berit Helene Vandsemb, Ragnhild Lund, Michael Jones.
Review :
'A refreshing exploration of alternative approaches to development, including bottom-up initiatives and a consideration of the intersections of marginalization, globalization and participation. Anyone interested in bridging the gap between development policy and practice will not be disappointed with this timely and thought-provoking collection.' Samantha Punch, University of Stirling, UK
`A refreshing exploration of alternative approaches to development, including bottom-up initiatives and a consideration of the intersections of marginalization, globalization and participation. Anyone interested in bridging the gap between development policy and practice will not be disappointed with this timely and thought-provoking collection.’
Samantha Punch, University of Stirling, UK
