New Actors and Alliances in Development
This collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a wider and more complex platform of actors than usually considered in the existing literature. The contributors also trace a changing set of key relations and alliances in development those between business and consumers; NGOs and celebrities; philanthropic organisations and the state; diaspora groups and transnational advocacy networks; ruling elites and productive capitalists; and between new donors and developing country governments. Despite the diversity of these actors and alliances, several commonalities arise: they are often based on hybrid transnationalism and diffuse notions of development responsibility; rather than being new per se, they are newly being studied as engaging in practices that are now coming to be understood as development; and they are limited in their ability to act as agents of development by their lack of accountability or pro-poor commitment. The articles in this collection point to images and representations as increasingly important in development branding and suggest fruitful new ground for critical development studies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
Lisa Ann Richey is Professor of International Development Studies at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. She is the author of Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World with Stefano Ponte (2011), Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (2008), and the co-editor of Women and Development: Rethinking Policy and Reconceptualizing Practice (special issue of Womens Studies Quarterly, 2003). She works on new actors in international aid, citizenship and body politics, and gender and the global South.
Stefano Ponte is Professor of International Political Economy at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is interested in how the global economy is governed and in how developing countries and emerging economies fare in it. His work examines how standards, labels and certifications on social and environmental conditions of production shape agro-food value chains. In recent research, he has been examining the increasing importance of celebrities and branding in mobilising compassionate consumption and new forms of corporate social responsibility that are distant and disengaged. His most recent books are Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World (co-author with Lisa Ann Richey, 2011) and Governing through Standards: Origins, Drivers and Limitations (co-editor with Peter Gibbon and Jakob Vestergaard, 2011).
Thirdworlds
Edited by Shahid Qadir, University of London
THIRDWORLDS will focus on the political economy, development and cultures of those parts of the world that have experienced the most political, social, and economic upheaval, and which have faced the greatest challenges of the postcolonial world under globalisation: poverty, displacement and diaspora, environmental degradation, human and civil rights abuses, war, hunger, and disease.
THIRDWORLDS serves as a signifier of oppositional emerging economies and cultures ranging from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and even those Souths within a larger perceived North, such as the U.S. South and Mediterranean Europe. The study of these otherwise disparate and discontinuous areas, known collectively as the Global South, demonstrates that as globalisation pervades the planet, the south, as a synonym for subalterity, also transcends geographical and ideological frontiers.
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