Reclaiming Development Studies

Reclaiming Development StudiesAs the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.

The origin of photographic cinema is reframed based on a multitude of visual examples

giving practical examples of ways to engage students with this particular form of visual pleasure

Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India

creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious

this book is a study of the British communist life between the Wars as it was experienced at the various phases of the life cycle

The book aims to set a distinction between ‘deep’ and ‘broad’ contexts

technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present

and allegory

arguing that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the “good” innovations also provides fertile ground for the development of the “bad” ones

Essays on previously unexplored topics and reflective pieces on McGahern as a writer illuminate his body of work in new and challenging ways

This is the only book arguing that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy

explores the enormous impact that gay politics had on the landscape of post-war Britain