The Politics of Development: A Survey provides an overview of the intrinsically political relations of development. It brings together essays written by experts in the politics of development and covers a range of significant and topical concerns: gender, race, indigenous development, social movements, religion, security, environmental concerns, colonialism and its legacies, migration, the political economy of development, trajectories in urbanization, and the agrarian question.

Table of Contents

• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• ESSAYS
• Introduction - HELOISE WEBER
• The politics of governing development - CRISTINA ROJAS AND SHANNON KINDORNAY
• Race and development - ROBBIE SHILLIAM
• Politics of Indigenous development - ELIZABETH STRAKOSCH
• Gender and development - LUCY FERGUSON, JUANITA ELIAS AND THOMAS WANNER
• Social movements and the politics of development - MARTIN WEBER
• Religion and development - JEFFREY HAYNES
• The security-development nexus and fragile states: a critical political analysis - KAMIL SHAH
• The environmental politics of development - MARTIN WEBER
• Politics of neo-liberal development: Washington Consensus and post-Washington Consensus - BEN FINE AND ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO
• Charter cities and development: examining a paradox - MICHAEL SPANN
• The politics of migration and the North American Free Trade Agreement - SAMID SULIMAN
• Politics of the agrarian question - A. HAROON AKRAM-LODHI
• Select bibliography
• A-Z glossary
• ACBF (African Capacity Building Foundation)
• Accumulation
• AfDB (African Development Bank)
• Agrarian political economy
• Agrarian question
• Agrarian reform
• AIDS
• ALBA-TCP
• Alternative World Water Forum
• Anthropocene
• Anthropogenic environmental crisis
• Appropriate technology
• ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
• Bali Action Plan
• Banana republic
• Bandung Conference
• Basel Convention
• Bilateral aid
• Biodiversity
• Biofuels
• Biopiracy
• Bretton Woods (institutions)
• BRICS
• Budgetary assistance or budget support
• CAADP (Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme)
• Capital
• Cartagena Protocol
• Cash crops
• CDM (Clean Development Mechanism)
• CEC (Commission for Environmental Cooperation)
• CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest)
• CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)
• Charter City/Cities
• Christianizing mission
• Circular migration
• CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
• Civil rights movement
• Civil society
• Civil society organizations
• Civilizational standards and colonial violence
• Civilizing mission
• CLC (Commission for Labor Cooperation)
• Codex Alimentarius (Commission)
• Cold War
• Colonialism
• Commodification
• Comparative advantage
• Competition state
• Complex multilateralism
• Conditionalities
• COP (Conference of the Parties)
• Corporate food regime
• Cotonou Agreement
• Countries in transition
• Country Assistance Plans (CAPs)
• Country-led approaches
• Coyote
• Critical security studies
• CTE (Committee on Trade and Environment)
• Debt-for-development swaps
• Debt-for-nature swaps
• Debt relief
• Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• De facto and de jure
• Dependency Theory
• Development
• Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
• Development ladder
• DFID (Department for International Development)
• Disciplinary neo-liberalism
• Dual mandate
• EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
• Ecological Footprint Theory (EFT)
• Ecological Modernization Theory (EMT)
• ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council)
• ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States)
• Embedded liberalism
• Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) Theory
• Eurocentrism
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• European Community (EC)
• European Development Fund
• European Union (EU)
• Export processing zone
• Faith-based organizations (FBOs)
• FAME (Forum Alternatif Mondial de l'Eau/Alternative World Water Forum)
• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
• Fast track (authority)
• Financial aid
• Financial intermediaries
• Food security
• Food sovereignty
• Foreign direct investment (FDI)
• Fragile states
• Fundamentalism
• G7/G8
• G20
• G77
• GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services)
• GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
• GAVI Alliance
• GDP (gross domestic product)
• GEF (Global Environmental Facility)
• Gender
• Gender analysis in development
• Gender and Development (GAD)
• Gender mainstreaming
• Geneva Convention(s)
• Ghost acres
• Global climate change
• Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD)
• Global Migration Group
• Globalization
• GNI (gross national income)
• Good governance
• Governmentality
• Harmonization
• Hegemony
• HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries)
• Historical materialism
• HIV
• Homeland Security
• Human Development Index (HDI)
• Human Development Report
• Human security
• Humanitarian assistance
• Hybridity
• IDB (Inter-American Development Bank)
• ILO (International Labour Organization)
• IMF (International Monetary Fund)
• Imperialism
• Income groups
• Indigenous
• Indigenous Economic Development Strategy (IEDS)
• Indigenous knowledge
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Interfaith dialogue
• Intermediate technology
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs)
• International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)
• International Development Association (IDA)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
• Keynesianism
• La Via Campesina
• Labour migration
• Landless Movement (Landless Workers’ Movement)
• League of Nations
• Least Developed Country (LDC)
• Liberal Peace Thesis
• Liberation theory
• Limits to Growth
• Logical Framework Approach (LFA)
• Low Income Countries
• Managing for results
• Mandates system
• Maquiladoras
• Megacity/Megacities
• Men-streaming
• Metabolic rift
• Microcredit
• Middle Income Countries (MICs)
• MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency)
• Migrant remittances
• Millennium Challenge Accounts
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Modernization Theory
• Monogenism
• Most Favoured Nation (MFN)
• Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem-Terra (MST)
• Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)
• Multilateral aid
• Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)
• NAAEC (North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation)
• NAALC (North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation)
• NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
• Neo-liberal development
• Neo-liberalism
• NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development)
• New constitutionalism
• New International Division of Labour (NIDL)
• New International Economic Order (NIEO)
• New racism
• New social movements (NSMs)
• New Wars
• Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
• Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
• ODA (official development assistance)
• OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
• Official aid
• Organizations
• Orientalism
• Orthodox conceptions of development
• Paris Declaration
• Petty commodity production
• Plantation system (or plantation economy)
• Polygenism
• Post-Washington Consensus (PWC)
• Poverty reduction budget support
• Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)
• Prevention through deterrence (PTD)
• Programme aid
• Programme-based approaches
• Prosperity theology
• Public-private partnerships (PPPs)
• Public sphere and counter-publics
• R2P (Responsibility to Protect)
• Ready-made garments (RMG) industry
• Regional development banks
• Religion and development
• Resource curse
• Rio Conference (or Rio Earth Summit)
• Risk society
• SADC (Southern African Development Community)
• Sector-wide approaches or sector investment programmes
• Securitization
• Security-development nexus
• Settler colonialism
• Social movements
• Solidarity
• Sovereignty
• Special Development Regions
• State building
• Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs)
• Sustainability
• Syncretism
• System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
• Terra nullius
• Trade unions
• Tragedy of the Commons
• Triangular Trade
• Trilateral Commission
• Trusteeship
• United Nations (UN)
• UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
• UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)
• UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
• UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
• UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)
• UNGA (United Nations General Assembly)
• UN-HABITAT (United Nations Human Settlement Programme)
• UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
• UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund)
• UNIFEM
• UNPFII (United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues)
• UN-REDD (United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation)
• UNSC (United Nations Security Council)
• UN Women
• Untied aid
• Urban bias
• USAID (United States Agency for International Development)
• Washington Consensus (WC)
• Water wars/conflicts
• WHO (World Health Organization)
• WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
• Women and Development (WAD)
• Women in Development (WID)
• World Bank
• World Bank Institute
• World Economic Forum (WEF)
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• World religions
• World Social Forum
• World Systems Theory
• World Water Council (WWC)
• WTO (World Trade Organization)