This book aims to reclaim the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies – something that is increasingly challenged from different directions. Confronted by the status quoist enterprise of randomized control trials ( RCTs) on the one hand and the radical endeavour to decolonize dominant knowledge systems (decoloniality) on the other, the study of development as an enduring societal ambition needs urgent revival.
The essays featured in this book build on the contributions of Ashwani Saith – an ardent critic of development orthodoxy and who at the same time is not ready to give up on the emancipatory potential of the development project. Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays touch upon many of the key questions of development studies centred around structural change, labour and poverty and inequality. They also highlight the continued necessity to ground the study of development processes in a critical political economy approach while interrogating the quick-fixes touted by the mainstream discourse on development.
Inhoudsopgave
List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Introduction: The Why and How of Reclaiming Development Studies, Murat Arsel, Anirban Dasgupta and Servaas Storm; Part I Growth and Structural Change; Chapter Two The Rural Non- farm Economy in India Revisited: From Rural Industrialization to Rural Entrepreneurs, Shreya Sinha and Bhaskar Vira; Chapter Three Economic Development in China and India: A Tale of Great Divergence, Ajit K. Ghose; Chapter Four Globalization: An Enhancement of Opportunity or the Deprivation of Autonomy to Pursue Rapid and Inclusive Growth?, Azizur Rahman Khan and Anirban Dasgupta; Part II Labour; Chapter Five Labour Laws and Manufacturing Performance in India: How Priors Trump Evidence and Progress Gets Stalled, Servaas Storm; Chapter Six Making People ‘Surplus Population’ in Southern Africa, Bridget O’Laughlin; Chapter Seven Effective Demand, Surplus Labour and the Pace of Development: Rereading Kalecki and Kahn, Marc Wuyts; Chapter Eight From Assumed Reluctancy to Enforced Redundancy: The Changed Depreciation of Labour in the Transition towards Global Capitalism, Jan Breman; Part III Poverty and Inequality; Chapter Nine Poverty Reduction and Social Progress in Bangladesh: Revisiting Some Development Ideas, Wahiduddin Mahmud; Chapter Ten Sukhatme’s Legacy and the Indian Exceptionalism, C. Sathyamala; Chapter Eleven English as a Medium of Instruction in Indian Education: Inequality of Access to Educational Opportunities, Vani Borooah and Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal; Chapter Twelve India’s Social Inequality as Durable Inequality: Dalits and Adivasis at the Bottom of an Increasingly Unequal Hierarchical Society, K. P. Kannan; Chapter Thirteen The Myth of Global Sustainability: Environmental Limits and (De)Growth in the Time of SDGs, Murat Arsel; List of Contributors; Index.
Over de auteur
Murat Arsel is Professor of Political Economy of Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
Anirban Dasgupta is Associate Professor of Economics at South Asian University, New Delhi.
Servaas Storm is Senior Lecturer in Economics at TU Delft.
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