Compendium Committee Chair
Salvatore Babones
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Sydney
E-Mail: sbabones@inbox.com
List of Review Essays (as of Nov. 13, 2009):
I. Theorizing global development
1 What is Development?*
2 Development Economics: From Classical to Critical Analysis*
3 Political and Social Theory on Development
4 Non-Western Approaches to Development
II. Major theoretical traditions in global development studies
5 Modernization Theory*
6 Dependency and World-Systems Perspectives on Development*
7 Postdevelopment Theory*
8 Cultural Political Economy*
III. Encounters and processes in historical context
9 The Colonial Encounter and Its Legacy*
10 Decolonization and its Contradictions
11 The Development of "Lands of Recent Settlement"*
12 Cosmopolitanism, Race, and Post-Colonial Studies*
IV. Power and dispossession
13 Slavery: Historical and Continuing
14 Women and Development*
15 Labor and Labor Standards
16 Identity, Difference, and Development*
V. Development and the state
17 Sovereignty and the Nation-State System*
18 The Developmental Effectiveness of Foreign Aid*
19 Development and Democratic Processes*
20 Development, Welfare Policy, and the Welfare State*
VI. Systems of production
21 Determinants of Economic Growth*
22 Global Commodity Chains and Global Value Chains?*
23 The Developmental Effectiveness of Foreign Direct Investment
24 Clusters and Regional Development*
25 Structural Adjustment, Privatization, and the Decimation of the Commons
VII. Poverty and inequality
26 Measuring Global Poverty*
27 Income Inequality and Economic Development*
28 The Millennium Development Goals and the Politics of Global Poverty*
29 Foreign Aid and the Development Community
VIII. Development and human security
30 Development and Health
31 Expanding Urban Slums*
32 Food Insecurity*
33 Microfinance and Social Performance*
IX. Culture, religion, and development
34 Modernity and its Contradictions*
35 Development and Religion*
36 Fundamentalism and Globalization*
37 Diasporas and Development*
X. Responses to developmentalism
38 Neoliberalism and its Critics*
39 Global Indigenous Rights and Responses*
40 Land Reform and Landless Movements*
41 Transnational Social Movements*
XII. Pedagogy
42 Teaching global Development Studies*
*Indicates an author has already been identified for the essay
