Development and its discontents / Andy Sumner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sumner, Andrew, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

illustration

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

'Development and Its Discontents' is a critical examination of development studies' history and what it has become, and what it might yet be. It argues that the field is increasingly differentiated along competing modes of thought, worldviews, and claims to knowledge, bringing long-running debates about the study of development back into sharp focus. Drawing on cross-disciplinary thinking on development, from the rise of classical development economics and the anti-colonial momentum of the Bandung era to contemporary decolonial critiques, the book maps the intellectual currents that have shaped development studies and the tensions and debates that now structure it. The result is a framework for recognising the field's internal pluralism and for taking interdisciplinarity more seriously, without pretending that its disagreements are merely semantic.

Contents:

The study of development

Continuum I: the framing of development

Continuum II: the scope of development

Continuum III: the onto-epistemology of development.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on September 15, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Sumner, Andrew,1973- Development and its discontents.

ISBN:

9780198902904

0198902905

9780198902898

0198902891

OCLC:

1602281409

Publisher Number:

CIPO000412019

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license