| Description |
1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Perspectives on Development Series |
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Routledge perspectives on development.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Images -- Tables -- Boxes -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Relevance of Human Rights and Development -- Introduction -- Multi-disciplinarity in understanding human rights and development -- A provisional encounter: Human rights and development -- Chapter overview -- Chapter 2: Development in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 3: Globalisation and Shifting Worlds of Development -- Chapter 4: Human Rights Controversies and Convergences |
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Chapter 5: Actors and Institutions in Human Rights and Development -- Chapter 6: Intersections -- Rights-Based Approaches to Development -- Chapter 7: The Human Right to Health and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 8: Impact in Rights-Based Approaches: Aligning Actors, Institutions and Interests -- Chapter 9: Shaping Human Rights and Development Futures -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Websites -- Reference list -- 2. Development in Theory and Practice -- Introduction -- Forged in the fires of the industrial revolution: Historical process and ideas |
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Colonialism -- Post-world war two -- Development as economic transformation/underdevelopment in the 'less developed' world -- Dependency theory and the non-aligned movement -- Roll back of the state and 'neoliberal' structural adjustment -- Partnership and poverty reduction -- Human development -- Example: Infrastructure and evictions -- Development as project and practice -- The NGO era -- Democracy promotion amidst ongoing critique of development -- Postcolonial critique: The demise of development? -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Websites -- Reference list |
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3. Globalisation and Shifting Worlds of Development -- Global(-ised) development -- New spatial geographies of development -- The convergence club -- Global poverty -- Social exclusion -- Global and national inequality -- Sustainable development -- Inter-generational equity -- Planetary boundaries and climate change -- Environmental impacts and extractive imperatives -- Responses to extractivism: Environmental justice -- Global policy initiatives -- Sustainable development goals -- Universalist ambitions of the SDGs: Implications for development theory and practice -- Conclusion -- Summary |
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Discussion questions -- Further reading -- Websites -- Reference list -- 4. Human Rights Controversies and Convergences -- Introduction -- Characteristics -- Foundations of human rights -- Origins of human rights -- Early developments in human rights -- Abolition of the slave trade -- Modern human rights: Universal declaration of human rights -- Decolonisation and revisionist accounts -- A moral fiction with political impact -- From 'Asia values' to the 'Chinese model' debates -- The Belt and Road Initiative -- Legal rights -- Types of rights -- Controversies: Objections to socio-economic rights |
| Summary |
The emergence of human rights within development and the evolving relationship was increasingly brought to bear upon key debates and policies over the last couple of decades. This book provides a critically informed, comprehensive and multi-disciplinary entry-level account of this engagement between human rights and development |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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| Subject |
Human rights.
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Human rights and globalization.
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Economic development -- Social aspects.
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Political development -- Social aspects
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Economic development -- Social aspects
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Human rights
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Human rights and globalization
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351970235 |
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1351970232 |
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