Volume18
- Review of Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism
Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao (eds.)
Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006 ISBN 0 8223 3731 2 (cloth), ISBN 0 8223 3743 6 (pbk) 354 pp.
Reviewed by Jennifer Vaughan,
Country Director – Honduras,
Plan International, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Review of Globalization and the Third World: A Study of Negative Consequences
B.N. Ghosh and Halil M. Guven (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN: 0-230-00467-9, 269 pp.
Reviewed by Walden Bello
Affiliation: University of the Philippines
- Review of Hatred of Democracy
Jacques Ranciére
London: Verso, 2006, ISBN 13: 978 1 844 670987, 106pp.
Reviewed by Douglas Bulloch
PhD student, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Review of Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
Amartya Sen
London: Allen Lane, 2007, ISBN: 0713999381, 215pp.
Reviewed by Douglas Bulloch
PhD student, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Review of The New Public Finance – Responding to Global Challenges
Inge Kaul and Pedro Conceicão (eds.)
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN13: 9780195179972, ISBN10: 0195179978, 688 pp.
Reviewed by David Hall
Director, Public Services International Research Unit,
University of Greenwich, London, England
- Review of African Perspectives on China in Africa
Firoze Manji and Stephen Marks
Nairobi and Oxford: Fahamu, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-0-9545637-3-8, 174 pp.
Reviewed by Luk, Tak-Chuen
Centre for Research and Development, China Unit, Oxfam Hong Kong
- Review of ASEAN–China Economic Relations
Saw Swee-Hock (ed.)
Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), 2007, ISBN: 978-981-30-408-7, 375 pp.
Reviewed by Alexander C. Chandra,
Institute for Global Justice (IGJ) and Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacy (SAPA), Brussels
- Review of Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change
W. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq, and M.J. Mace (eds.)
The MIT Press (Cambridge, MA and London), 2006, ISBN: 02625 11 932, 319pp.
Reviewed by Antonio Hill
Senior Policy Adviser, Climate Change
Oxfam GB, Oxford, England
- Review of Terrorism: The Present Threat in Context
Stephen Sloan
Oxford: Berg, 2006, ISBN: 184520-344-5, 140 pp.
Reviewed by Michael J. Boyle
Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrew’s, Scotland
- Review of Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN Community : Insights from the Former ASEAN Secretary-General
Rodolfo C. Severino
Singapore, ISEAS, 2006, ISBN 978-981-230-388-2, 489 pp.
Reviewed by Consuelo Katrina A. Lopa
Regional Co-ordinator, South East Asian Committee for Advocacy, and Focal Point, Working Group on the ASEAN, SAPA/Solidarity for Asian People’s Advocacies, Metro Manila, Philippines
- Review of African Anthropologies: History, Critique and Practice
Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills and Mustafa Babiker (eds.)
London and New York: CODESRIA in association with Zed Books, 2006, ISBN: 1-84277-763-7, 274pp.
Reviewed by Nana K. Poku
Professor of African Politics, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
- Review of Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-8223 4004-1, 272 pp.
Reviewed by Deborah Eade
Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice, Monnetier-Mornex, France
- Review of A Decade of Human Security: Global Governance and The New Multilateralisms
Sandra J. Maclean, David R. Black and Timothy M. Shaw (eds.)
Aldershot: Ashgate 2006, ISBN: 0 7546 4773 0, 264 pp.
Reviewed by Tony Vaux
Independent consultant, Cumbria, England
- Review of Human Rights in the Global Information Society
Rikke Frank Jørgensen (ed.)
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006, ISBN: 0-262-10115-7, 324 pp.
Reviewed by James Lawson
Human Rights Information and Documentation International (HURIDOCS), Versoix, Switzerland
- Review of Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask
Nick Henck
Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-8223-3995-3, 499 pp.
Reviewed by Deborah Eade
Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice, Monnetier-Mornex, France
- Review of Impact Measurement and Accountability in Emergencies: The Good Enough Guide
Emergency Capacity Building Project
Oxford: Oxfam GB, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-85598-594-3, 74 pp.
Reviewed by Susanne E. Frueh
Former Chief of Evaluation of OCHA,
Former Chair of the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition
- Review of Violence, Political Culture and Development in Africa
Preben Kaarsholm (ed.)
Oxford: James Currey, 2006, ISBN: 0-85255-894-5 Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006, ISBN: 1-86914-116-4 Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006, ISBN: 08690-251-5
Reviewed by Richard Smith
Adviser on Conflict, Peacebuilding, and Development
ACTION for Conflict Transformation, Action Support Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Review of Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital Through Cross-Border Campaigns
Kate Bronfenbrenner (ed.)
Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press/ILR Press, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-8014-7391-3, 261 pp.
Reviewed by Peter Williams
Labour Rights Consultant and Ethical Trading Initiative NGO Caucus Co-ordinator
- Review of Ecotourism, NGOs and Development
J. Butcher
Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 2007, ISBN 10: 0-415-39367-1, 189 pp.
Reviewed by Bruce Mead
Director, Harewelle International, UK
- Review of A World Turned Upside Down: Social Ecological Approaches to Children in War Zones
Neil Boothby, Alison Strang, and Michael Wessels (eds.)
Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, CT, 2006, ISBN-10: 1-56749-225-0, 260 pp.
Reviewed by Rob Chase
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada
- Review of Humanitarian Diplomacy: Practitioners and Their Craft
Larry Minear and Hazel Smith (eds.)
Tokyo, United Nations University Press, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-92-808-1134-6, 407 pp.
Reviewed by Jon Bennett
Oxford Development Consultants, UK
- Review of Invisible Governance: International Secretariats in Global Politics
John Mathiason
Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press, 2007, ISBN: 13: 978-1-56549-220-2, 295 pp.
Reviewed by Haleem Lone,
Regional Chief of Planning, UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Review of Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power
Larry Lohmann (ed.)
Development Dialogue, No. 48, September 2006 Uppsala, The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, ISSN: 0345-2328
Reviewed by Rachel Cleetus
Climate Economist, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Review of Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West
Karin van Nieuwkerk (ed.)
University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0-292-71302-4, 294 pp.
Reviewed by Cassandra Balchin
Director of Legal Awareness, Women and Society (LAWS) London, England
- Review of Troublesome Border (revised edition)
Oscar J. MartÍnez
Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-1652-5577, 182 pp.
Reviewed by Irasema Coronado,
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts' University of Texas at El Paso, USA
- Review of Choosing the Lesser Evil: Understanding Decision Making in Humanitarian Aid NGOs
Liesbet Heyse
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, ISBN-13:978-0-7546-4612-9, 252 pp.
Reviewed by Andrew Couldridge
Independent Consultant, Casper, Wyoming, USA
- Review of Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice: Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield (eds.)
Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2006, ISBN: 0-8223-3698-7 (pbk), 364 pp.
Reviewed by Deborah Eade
Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice, Monnetier-Mornex, France
- Review of Membership-based Organizations of the Poor
Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur and Carol Richards (eds.)
London: Routledge, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-415-77073-6, 376 pp.
Reviewed Lucy Earle (double book review)
Development Studies Institute, London, School of Economics and Political Science, England
- Review of Collective Action and Urban Poverty Alleviation: Community Organizations and the Struggle for Shelter in Manila
Gavin Shatkin
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, ISBN: 978-0-7546-4786-7, 168 pp.
Reviewed by Lucy Earle
Development Studies Institute, London, School of Economics and Political Science, England
- Review of Conducting Online Surveys
Valerie M. Sue and Lois A. Ritter
Los Angeles/London/ New Delhi/ Singapore: Sage, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-1-4129-3754-2, 194 pp.
Reviewed by Wayne Diamond
Oxfam GB Research Methods Adviser, Oxford, UK
- Review of Latin American Social Movements: Globalization, Democratization and Transnational Networks
Hank Johnston and Paul Almeida (eds.)
Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, ISBN: 978 074 255 3323, 270pp.
Reviewed by Corinne Caumartin
CRISE, Department for International Development, University of Oxford, England
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Volume17
- Review of Indigenous Peple, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America
Gillette Hall and Harry Anthony Patrinos (eds.)
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN: 978-1-4039-9938-2, 308 pp.
Reviewed by Laura Rival
Department of International Development, University of Oxford
- Review of Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas
Shannon R. Speed, Aída Hernández Castillo, and Lynn M. Stephen (eds.)
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006, ISBN: 978-0292714403, 280 pp.
Reviewed by Morna Macleod
Independent consultant and researcher,
Mexico City
- Review of Visions of Solidarity: US Peace Activists in Nicaragua from War to Women’s Activism and Globalization
Clare Weber
Lexington Books, 2006, ISBN: 978-0-7391-1718-7, 153 pp.
Reviewed by Gretchen Alther,
Associate, Rights in Humanitarian Crises,
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC),
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Multinational Corporations and Global Poverty Reduction
Subhash C. Jain and Sushil Vachani
Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar, 2006, ISBN: 1 84376 581 0, 449 pp.
Reviewed by Robert Bailey
Policy Adviser on the Private Sector, Oxfam GB, UK
- Development Brokers and Translators: the Ethnography of Aid and Agencies
David Lewis and David Mosse (eds.)
Kumarian Press Inc., West Hartford, CT, 2006, ISBN:1-56549-217-X, 251 pp.
Reviewed by Mariella Marzano
University of Durham, UK
- Review of The Limits of Regionalism: NAFTA’s Labour Accord
Robert G. Finbow
Aldershot and New York: Ashgate, 2006, ISBN: 9780754633372, 300 pp.
Reviewed by E. Remi Aiyede,
Lecturer, Department of Political Science,
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Review of The Use of Force in Humanitarian Intervention: Morality and Practicalities
John Janzekovic
Aldershot and New York: Ashgate, 2006, ISBN: 0-7546-4850-8, 238 pp.
Reviewed by Hugo Slim
Chief Scholar, Centre for Humanitarian
Dialogue, Geneva
- Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction
Srilatha Batliwala and L. David Brown (eds.)
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006, ISBN: 1 56549 210 2 270 pp.
Reviewed by Nandita Dogra
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK
- Water: A Shared Responsibility - The United Nations World Water Development Report 2
UNESCO
UNESCO and Berghahn Books, 2006, ISBN: 1-84545-177-5, 584pp.
Reviewed by John Magrath
Programme Researcher, Oxfam GB, UK
- Review of Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict
Jonathan Goodhand
Rugby: ITDG Publishing, 2006, ISBN:1 85339 632 X
Reviewed by Martha Thompson
Program Manager in Rights and Humanitarian Crises,
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Review of Refugees in a Global Era
Philip Marfleet
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN: 0-333-77784-0, 324 pp.
Reviewed by Khalid Koser
The Brookings Institution
Washington DC, USA
- Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India
Sangtin Writers Anupamlata, Ramsheela, Reshma Ansari, Richa Singh, Shashi Vaish, Shashibala, Surbala, and Vibha Bajpayee with Richa Nagar
Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, ISBN 0 8166 4770 4, 181 pp.
Reviewed by Ranjani K. Murthy
Independent researcher on gender, poverty, and health, Chennai, India
- Guatemaltecas - The Women's Movement 1986-2003
Susan A. Berger
University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2006, ISBN: 0-292-70944-7, 107 pp.
Reviewed by Beate Thoresen
FOKUS, Norway, (formerly a development worker in Guatemala)
- Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Martha MacIntyre (eds.)
Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, ISBN: 0-7546-4650-5, 378pp.
Reviewed by Keith Slack
Senior Policy Adviser, Oxfam America, USA
- Review of Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform
Peter Rosset, Raj Patel, and Michael Courville (eds.)
Oakland, CA: Food First Books, 2006, ISBN: 978-1567513585, xvi þ 380 pp.
Robin Palmer
Mokoro, Oxford, England
- Governance and Nationbuilding: The Failure of International Intervention
Kate Jenkins and William Plowden
Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 2006, ISBN: 978 1 84542 191 4
Reviewed by
Katia Papagianni, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science, Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies, and Project Manager, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland
- Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism
Janet Halley
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 10:0 691 12737 9, 402pp.
Reviewed by Deborah Eade
Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice, Monnetier-Mornex, France
- Review of The Aid Chain: Coercion and Commitment in Development NGOs
Tina Wallace with Lisa Bornstein and Jennifer Chapman
Rugby: Intermediate Technology Publications, 2006, ISBN: 1-85339-626-5, 199 pp.
Reviewed by Patta Scott-Villiers
Head of Research, UNOCHA Pastoralist Communication Initiative, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, and member of the Participation Team at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK
- Latin America: A New Interpretation
Laurence Whitehead
Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN: 1 4039 3131 5, 300 pp.
Reviewed by Miguel Pickard
Investigator, CIEPAC, San Cristóbal, Chiapas, Mexico
- Culture and Development in a Globalizing World: Geographies, Actors and Paradigms
Sarah A. Radcliffe (ed.)
Oxford: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006, ISBN: 0-415-34877-3, 280pp.
Reviewed by Nada Ŝvob Đokić
Scientific Adviser, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia
- Women and Migration in Asia: Migrant Women and Work, Volume 4
Anuja Agrawal (ed.)
Sage Publications, India, 2006, ISBN: 07619 3457X, 226pp.
Reviewed by Kim Van Eyck
California Nurses Association Insitute of Health and Socio-economic Policy, USA
- Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of ‘the Social’
Shahra Razavi and Shireen Hassim (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, ISBN: 978-1-4039-9630-5, 355pp.
Reviewed by Susanne Schech
Centre for Development Studies, Flinders University, Australia
- La ciudad, la crisis y las salidas: democracia y desarrollo en espacios urbanos meso
Jaime A. Joseph
Alternativa Centro de Investigación Social y Educación Popular y Fondo Editorial de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2005, ISBN: 9972-2552-2-0, 277pp.
Reviewed by Alan Gilbert
Professor and Head of the Geography Dept., University College London, UK
(Author of The Latin American City and numerous papers on urban issues in Latin America and poorer countries, and editor and contributor to the Mega-city in Latin America (United Nations University Press).)
- Review of Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy
Stephen Barley and Gideon Kunda
Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2004, ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12795-28, ISBN: 0-691-12795-6, 342 pp.
Reviewed by Frances Rubin
Independent Development Consultant, Oxford
- Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder
Daniel Chirot and Clark McCauley
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006, ISBN 978 0 691 09296 6, 268 pp.
Reviewed by Dan Smith
Secretary General, International Alert
- The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank
Anthony Bebbington, Michael Woolcock, Scott E. Guggenheim, and Elizabeth A.Olson (eds.)
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006, ISBN: 978-1-56549-215-8, 301pp.
Reviewed by John Harriss
Director, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- More Urban, Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development and Management
Goran Tannerfeldt and Per Ljung
London/Sterling, VA: Sida and Earthscan, 2006, ISBN: 18440 738 15, 190 pp.
Reviewed by David G. Westendorff
Principal Consultant, urbanchina partners, Shanghai, PRC
- Cinderella or Cyberella? Empowering Women in the Knowledge Society
Nancy J. Hafkin and Sophia Huyer (eds.)
Bloomfield, Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 2006, ISBN: 1565492196, 220 pp.
Reviewed by Gillian Youngs
Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, UK
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Volume16
- Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation
Wilson, Shamillah, Segupta Anasuya and Kirsty Evans
London & New York: Zed Books & AWID, 2005, ISBN: 1 84277 727 0, 254 pp
Reviewed by Alvarez-Manzano, Yessica
Fawcett Society, London
- Disaster Management and Civil Society: Earthquake Relief in Japan, Turkey and India
Özerdem, Alpaslan and Jacoby, Tim
International Library of Postwar Reconstruction and Development no. 1, 2006, ISBN 1-84511-053-6, hbk, xiv+142 pp.
David Alexander
University of Florence
- Civil War, Civil Peace
Yanacopulos, Helen and Joseph Hanlon (eds.)
Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 2006, ISBN-10: 0-85255-895-3, 332pp
Reviewed by Rhys Kelly
Department of Peace Studies
University of Bradford, UK
- Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective
Adams, Vincanne and Stacy Leigh Pigg (eds.)
Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2005, ISBN:0 8223 3491 7, 360pp.
Reviewed by Ines Smyth, Global Gender Adviser Oxfam GB, Oxford
- Willing Slaves: How the Overwork Culture is Ruling our Lives
Bunting, Madeleine
London: Harper Perennial, 2005, ISBN: 0 00716372 X, 368 pp
Reviewed by Deborah Eade, Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice
- Reconciling work and family responsibilities: Practical ideas from global experience
Hein, Catherine
Geneva:ILO, 2005, ISBN: 92 2 1153525, 207pp
Reviewed by Deborah Eade, Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice
- The New Conditionality: The Politics of Poverty reduction Strategies
Gould, Jeremy (ed.)
London and New York: Zed Books, 2005, ISBN 1 84277523 5, 180 pp.
Reviewed by Alison Evans
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton, UK
- Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role
Barrett, Christopher B. and Maxwell,Daniel G.
London and New York, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-415-70124-4 (hb) and 0-415-70125-2 (pb), 314 pp.
Tony Jackson, Oxfam’s Food Aid Consultant 1979-83, and currently Great Lakes Policy Adviser, International Alert, London.
- The State They're In: An Agenda for International Action on Poverty in Africa
Lockwood, Matthew
London: ITDG Publishing, 2005, ISBN:1853396176, 192 pp
Reviewed by Alina Rocha Menocal, Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, London
- Women Building Peace: Sharing Know-How. Assessing Impact: Planning for Miracles
El Bushra, Judy; Adrian-Paul, Ancil; Olson, Maria
London:International Alert, 2005, ISBN:1898702691, 48pp, www.international-alert.org
Reviewed by Cordula Reimann
Project Co-ordinator at KOFF/Centre for Peace-building, swisspeace, Bern.
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors and the State
Igoe, Jim and Kelsall, Tim (eds.)
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005, ISBN 1-59460-017-1, 309 pp.
Firoze Manji
Fahamu – Networks for Social Justice
Oxford, UK
- Female Well-Being: Toward A Global Theory of Social Change
Mancini Billson, Janet and Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (eds.)
London and New York, NY: Zed Books, 2005, ISBN:1 84277 009 8, 432 pp.
Reviewed by Catherine Locke
School of Development Studies
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, UK
- Is the Sacred for Sale? Tourism and Indigenous Peoples
Johnston, Alison M.
London: Earthscan, 2006, ISBN: 1 8538 3859 4 (pb); ISBN: 1 8538 3858 6 (hb), 320pp
David Harrison, Professor of Tourism at the International Institute for Culture, Tourism and Development, London Metropolitan University, and Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London
- Reinventing Development? Translating Rights-Based Approaches from Theory to Practice
Gready, Paul and Jonathan Ensor (eds.)
London and New York, NY: Zed Books, 2006, ISBN: 1 84277 6495, 320 pp.
Reviewed by Andrea Cornwall, Institute od Development Studies,
University of Sussex,
Brighton, UK
- Stealing the Future: Corruption in the Classroom. Ten Real World Experiences
Meier, Bettina and Griffin, Michael (eds.)
Berlin: Transparency International, 2005, no ISBN, 84 pp.
Sheila Aikman
Oxfam GB Education Adviser, Oxford
- Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
Mosse, David
London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2005, ISBN 0 7453 1798 7, 315 pp.
Reviewed by Dinah Rajak,
Department of Anthropology,
University of Sussex,
Brighton, UK
- Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions
Kabeer, Naila (ed.)
New Delhi/London: Zubaan/Zed Books, 2005, ISBN: 81-89013-30-0, 274 pp.
Reviewed by Krishnamurthy Pushpanath, Oxfam GB
- Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalisation
Mayo, Marjorie
London: Zed Books, 2004, ISBN 1842771396, 256pp.
Reviewed by Krishnamurthy Pushpanath, Oxfam GB
- Relationships for Aid
Rosalind Eyben
London and Sterling, VA, Earthscan in association with Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2006, ISBN: 13 978 1 84407 280 4, 178pp.
Reviewed by Deborah Eade, Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice, Monnetier-Mornex, France
- Doing Development Research
Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter (eds.)
London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi:Sage Publications, 2006, ISBN: 1 4129 0285 1, 324 pp.
Reviewed by Kate Raworth, Senior Researcher, Oxfam GB, Oxford, UK
- Globalization and Social Exclusion A Transformationalist Perspective
Ronaldo Munck
Bloomfield, CT, Kumarian Press, 2005, ISBN 1 56 549 193, 190 pp. + xiv.
Reviewed by Ann Nevile,The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
- Social and Gender Analysis in Natural Resource Management: Learning Studies and Lessons from Asia
Ronnie Vernooy (ed.)
New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, CA, London: Sage Publications and Ottawa: IDRC, 2006, ISBN: 0-7619-3463-4, 250 pp.
Barbara Adolph
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, UK
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Volume15
- The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
Lederach, John Paul
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0 19 517454 2, 200 pp.
reviewed by
Joe Bock
Secure World Foundation
- A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis
Rieff, David
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN: 074325211X, 400 pp.
reviewed by
Sophia Swithern
Protection Policy Adviser, Oxfam GB, UK
- Reinventing Government for the Twenty-First Century: State Capacity in a Globalizing Society
Rondinelli, Dennis A. and G. Shabir Cheema (eds.)
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2003, ISBN: 1 56549 178 5, 270 pp.
reviewed by
Zander Navarro
Department of Sociology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, and IDS at University of Sussex, UK
- The Global Legitimacy Game: Civil Society, Globalization and Protest
Van Rooy, Alison
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 1 4039 0625 4, 194 pp.
reviewed by
Nicola Bullard
Focus on the Global South, Bangkok
- Rethinking International Organizations: Pathology and Promise
Dijkzeul, Dennis and Yves Beigbeder (eds.)
New York, NY: Berghan Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 57181 656 9, 350 pp.
reviewed by
Adil Najam
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA
- Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization and Globalization in Latin America
Kaufman, Robert R. and Joan M. Nelson (eds.)
Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, ISBN: 0 8018 8032 3, 560 pp.
reviewed by
Armando Barrientos
IDPM, University of Manchester, UK
- The Future of Women's Rights: Global Visions & Strategies
Kerr, Joanna , Ellen Springer and Alison Symington (eds.)
London, New York: Zed Books 2004 published in association with AWID and Mma Cash, ISBN: 1 84277 459 X, 224 pp.
reviewed by
Liz Cooke
Reviews Editor
- Structural Adjustment - The SAPRI Report: The Policy Roots of Economic Crisis, Poverty and Inequality
The Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network (SAPRIN)
London and New York: Zed Books, 2004, ISBN: 1 84277 389 5, 242 pp.
reviewed by
Carlos Heredia
Equipo Pueblo and Representation of the State of Michoacán in Mexico City, Mexico
- African Voices on Development and Social Justice: Editorials from Pambazuka News 2004
Manji, Firoze and Patrick Burnett (eds.)
Dar es Salaam: Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers, 2005, ISBN: 9987 417 35 3, 280 pp.
reviewed by
Celestine Nyamu-Musembi
Institute of Development Studies
- When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda
Mamdani, Mahmood
Oxford: James Currey, 2001, ISBN: 0 85255 859 7, 364 pp.
reviewed by
Ukoha Ukiwo
Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, UK
- Leadership and Innovation in Subnational Government: Case Studies from Latin America
Campbell, Tim and Harald Fuhr (eds.)
Washington, DC: The World Bank Institute, 2004, ISBN: 0 8213 5707 7, 450 pp.
reviewed by
Henry Dietz
Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin, USA
- Alfabetização Cultural: a luta íntima por uma nova humanidade
Baron, Dan
São Paulo: Alfarrabio Editora (editora@alfarrabio.com.br), 2004, ISBN: 85 89147 02 9 431 pp.
reviewed by
Mike Powell, Management Consultant, UK
- The Ills of Aid: An Analysis of Third World Development Policies
Reusse, Eberhard
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 226 71014 9, 127 pp.
reviewed by
Maurizio Carbone
Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, and European Union Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS
D'Adesky, Anne-Christine
London and New York, NY: Verso, 2004, ISBN: 184467 002 3, 487 pp.
reviewed by
Sue Holden
Honorary Research Associate, Lancaster University, UK
- Rural Poverty, Risk and Development
Fafchamps, Marcel
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2004, ISBN: 1 84376 436 9, 288 pp.
reviewed by
Michael Lipton
Poverty Research Unit at Sussex, University of Sussex, UK
- Key Issues in Development
Kingsbury, Damien, Joe Remenyi, John McKay and Janet Hunt
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, ISBN: 14039 0045 0, 329 pp.
reviewed by
Sibonginkosi Mazibuko
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa
- The Ethics of Development
Gaspar, Des
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics, Edinburgh University Press, 2004, ISBN 07486 1058 8 255 pp.
reviewed by
Deborah Eade, Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice
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- Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Options and Actions
Bannon, Ian and Paul Collier (eds.)
Washington, DC, World Bank, 2003, ISBN: 0 8213 5503 1, 409 pp.
reviewed by
Michael Renner
Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC
- Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy
Krishna, Anirudh
New York, NY: Colombia University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 231 12571 2, 252 pp.
reviewed by
John Harriss
Development Studies Institute, LSE, London
- Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights: Codes of Conduct in the Global Economy
Jenkins, Rhys , Ruth Pearson and Gill Seyfang (eds.)
London: Earthscan, 2002, ISBN: 1 85383 931, 232 pp.
reviewed by
Deborah Doane
Programme Director, Transforming Markets, New Economics Foundation, London
- The Origins of Indigenism: Human Rights and the Politics of Identity
Niezen, Ronald
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, ISBN: 0 520 235541, 272 pp.
reviewed by
Diana Vinding
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, Copenhagen
- AIDS in the Twenty-first Century: Disease and Globalization
Barnett, Tony and Alan Whiteside
Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN: 1 4 39 9996 X, 416 pp.
reviewed by
Catherine Campbell
Social Psychology Department, LSE, London
- In the Name of the Poor: Contesting Political Space for Poverty Reduction
Webster, Neil and Lars Engberg-Pedersen (eds.)
London: Zed Books, 2002, ISBN: 1 85649 959 6, 279 pp.
reviewed by
Armando Román-Zozaya
Instituto Ortega y Gasset, Madrid
- The Right to Education Denied: Costs and Remedies
Tomasevski, Katarina
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 84277 251 1, 205 pp.
reviewed by
Anne Jellema
Advocacy Coordinator, Global Campaign for Education, Cape Town
- The Corporate Responsibility Code Book
Leipziger, Deborah
Sheffield: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003, ISBN: 1 87471 978 0, 512 pp.
reviewed by
Seb Beloe
Director, Research and Advocacy, SustainAbility Ltd, London
- Here to Help: NGOs Combating Poverty in Latin America
Eversole, Robyn (ed.)
Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003, ISBN: 0 7656 1107 4, 252 pp.
reviewed by
Morna Macleod
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City
- Water Rights and Empowerment
Boelens, Rutgerd and Paul Hoogendam (eds.)
Assen: Van Gorcum, 2002, ISBN: 90 232 3764 1, 255 pp.
reviewed by
José Esteban Castro
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford
- The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons
Trawick, Paul B.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003, ISBN: 0 8047 3138 1, 351 pp.
reviewed by
John Crabtree
Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford
- Continent of Mothers, Continent of Hope: Understanding and Promoting Development in Africa Today
Skard, Torild
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 84277 107 8, 260 pp.
reviewed by
Nish-Muthoni Matenjwa
Research, Publications & Communications Programme Manager, ABANTU for Development, London
- The New Poverty Strategies - What Have They Achieved? What Have We Learned?
Booth, Anne and Paul Mosley (eds.)
Basingstoke and New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, ISBN: 0 333 91975 0, 285 pp.
reviewed by
Steen Folke
Aid Impact Research Programme, Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen
- A New Weave of Power, People & Politics: The action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation
VeneKlasen, Lisa with Valerie Miller
Oklahoma City, OK: World Neighbors, 2002, ISBN: 0 942716 17 5, 346 pp.
reviewed by
John Ruthrauff
Senior Policy Analyst, Oxfam America, Washington, DC
- African Development and Governance Strategies in the 21st Century - Looking Back to Move Forward: Essays in Honour of Adebayo Adedeji at Seventy
Onimode, Bade et al.
London: Zed Books, 2004, ISBN: 1 84277 408 3, 384 pp.
reviewed by
Dharam Ghai
Independent Researcher and Adviser, ILO, Geneva
- Gender Relations in Forest Societies in Asia: Patriarchy at Odds
Kelkar, Govind, Dev Nathan, and Pierre Walter (eds.)
New Delhi: Sage Publications, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the Asian Institute of Technology, and the Centre for International Forestry Research, 2003, ISBN: 81 7829 251 3, 325 pp.
reviewed by
Sabita Banerji
Internal Communications Programme, Oxfam GB, Oxford
- Globalizing Civic Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action
Clark, John (ed.)
London: Earthscan, 2003, ISBN: 1 85383 989 2, 194 pp.
reviewed by
Janet Hunt
Senior Lecturer in International Development, School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT University, Melbourne
- Participation, Negotiation and Poverty: Encountering the Power of Images
Tembo, Fletcher
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, ISBN: 0 7546 3377 2, 188 pp.
reviewed by
Bill Cooke
Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester
- Globalization, Democracy and Development in Africa: Challenges and Prospects
Taye, Assefa, Severine M. Rugumamu, and Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed (eds.)
Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 2002, ISBN: 0 9521 2694 X, 379 pp.
reviewed by
Ebere Onwudiwe
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio
- Beyond Retribution: Seeking Justice in the Shadows of War
Mani, Rama
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 7456 2836 2, 256 pp.
reviewed by
Debra L. DeLaet
Department of Politics and International Relations, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
- The Colonizer and the Colonized
Memmi, Albert, introduced by Jean-Paul Sartre and with a new introduction by Nadine Gordimer
London: Earthscan, 2003, ISBN: 1 84407 040 9, 197 pp.
reviewed by
Patrick Chabal
Professor of Lusophone African Studies, King's College, London
- Thirsty Planet: Strategies for Sustainable Water Management
Hunt, Constance Elizabeth
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 844277 243 0, 320 pp.
reviewed by
François Molle
International Water Management Institute, Colombo
- Research for Development: A Practical Guide
Laws, Sophie with Caroline Harper and Rachel Marcus
London, Thousand Oaks, CA, and New Delhi: Sage Publications on behalf of Save the Children, 2003, ISBN: 0 7619 7327 3, 475 pp.
reviewed by
Deborah Eade
Editor, Development in Practice
- Models of Capitalism: Lessons for Latin America
Huber, Evelyne (ed.)
University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2003, ISBN: 0 271 02176 4, 492 pp.
reviewed by
Philip Oxhorn
Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
- Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
Farmer, Paul, with a Foreword by Amartya Sen
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 402 pp.
reviewed by
Claudio Schuftan
Ho Chi Minh City
- Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and Performance
Wilensky, Harold L.
Berkeley , CA: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN: 0520 23279 8, 891 pp.
reviewed by
Ross Burkhart
Department of Political Science, Boise State University, Boise, Indiana
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- Globalization and Human Rights
Brysk, Alison (ed.)
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 520 23238 0, 311 pp.
reviewed by
Hans Peter Schmitz, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University, USA
- Legalize This! The case for decriminalizing drugs
Husak, Douglas
London: Verso, 2002, ISBN: 1 8598 4320 4, 190 pp.
Reviewed by Steven Duke, Professor of Law, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- The Spaces of Neoliberalism: Land, Place and Family in Latin America
Chase, Jacquelyn (ed.)
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2002 ISBN 1 56549 144 0, 244pp
Reviewed by Rosalind Eyben
Fellow in Poverty and Social Policy, IDS, University of Sussex, Brighton
- Reviving Democracy: Citizens at the Heart of Governance
Knight, Barry, Hope Chigudu, and Rajesh Tandon
London and Sterling VA: Earthscan Publications, 2002, ISBN: 1 85383 881 0, 214 pp.
reviewed by
Carole Pateman
Political Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles CA
- Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World has Failed
Dichter, Thomas
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003, ISBN: 1 55849 393 X, 320 pp.
reviewed by
David Ellerman, Former Economic Adviser to the Chief Economist, World Bank, USA
- Going Global: Transforming Relief and Development NGOs
Lindenberg, Mark; and Bryant, Coralie
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2001, ISBN:1 5654 9135 1, 271 pp.
Reviewed by Tina Wallace
Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
- Making Global Trade Work for People
Malhotra, Kamal (ed.)
London: Earthscan Publications Ltd in conjunction with UNDP, 2003, ISBN: 1 85383 982 5, 341 pp.
reviewed by
Peter Williams
Livelihoods Adviser, Programme Policy Team, Oxfam GB, Oxford
- Transcending Neo-liberalism: Community-based Development in Latin America
Veltmeyer, Henry and O’Malley, Anthony (eds.)
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2001, ISBN: 1 56549 125 4, 247 pp.
Reviewed by Rosalind EybenFellow in Poverty and Social Policy, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton
- Fragile Peace: State Failure, Violence and Development in Crisis Regions
Debiel, Tobias with Axel Klein (ed.)
London: Zed Books, in association with the Development and Peace Foundation, 2002, ISBN: 1 84277 170 1, 234 pp.
reviewed by Ana Cutter, Consultant, UNDP, and Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, New York, NY
- African Political Parties: Evolution, Institutionalisation and Governance
Salih, M.A. Mohamed (ed.)
London: Pluto Press, 2003, ISBN: 0 7453 2037 6, 372 pp.
reviewed by
Jennifer Widner
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
- The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century
Helton, Arthur C.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 19 925030 8, 314 pp.
Reviewed by
Michael Barutciski, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Knowledge, Power and Development Agendas: NGOs North and South
Mawdsley, Emma; Townsend, Janet; Porter, Gina; and Oakley, Peter
INTRAC NGO Management and Policy Series, no 14, Oxford: INTRAC, 2002, ISBN: 1 897748 63 9
Reviewed by Tina Wallace, Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
- African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1970-99
van de Walle, Nicolas
Cambridge: CUP, 2001 ISBN: 0 521 00836 0, 291 pp.
Reviewed by Tony KIllick, Senior Research Associate, International Economic Development Group, Overseas Development Institute, UK
- Presidents Without Parties: the Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990’s
Corrales, Javier
University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 271 02194 2, 364 pp
reviewed by
Francisco E. Gonzalez
British Academy Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford
- Women Development Workers: Implementing Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh
Goetz, Anne Marie
New Delhi: Sage, 2001, ISBN: 81 7829 009 X, 443 pp.
reviewed by Kitty Bentvelsen, Senior Adviser, Femconsult, Consultants on Gender and Development, The Hague
- Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World
Iriye, Akira
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 52023 127 9, 246 pp.
reviewed by
Arturo C. Sotomayor, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Columbia University, New York, and Assistant Professor on leave at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico City
- Africa in Crisis: New Challenges and Possibilities
Edited by Zack-Williams,Tunde; Frost,Diane and Thomson, Alex
London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 7453 1647 6, 228 pp.
reviewed by Tony Killick, Senior Research Associate, International Economic Development Group, Overseas Development Institute, UK
- Globalisation and labour: The new ‘Great Transformation’
Munck, Ronaldo
London: Zed Books, 2002, ISBN: 1 8427 7071 3, 216 pp.
reviewed by
Linda Shaw, Learning Development Manager, The Co-operative College, UK
- The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela
Weyland, Kurt
Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0 691 09643 0, 336 pp.
Reviewed by
Francisco E. Gonzalez
British Academy Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford
- The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka
Kabeer, Naila
London: Verso, 2002, ISBN: 1 85984 206 2, 320 pp.
Reviewed by Petra Dannecker, Lecturer, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld
- Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Maximising Benefits, Minimising Costs
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Paris: OECD, 2002, ISBN: 9 26419 927 6, 232 pp.
reviewed by
Andrew Mold
Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid
- The Economic North-South Divide: Six Decades of Unequal Development
Raffert, Kunibert and H. W. Singer
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001, ISBN 1 84064 152 5, pp 293.
reviewed by
Adrian Leftwich, Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York, UK
- The Challenge of Health Sector Reform: What Must Governments Do?
Mills, Anne; Bennett, Sara; Russell, Steven
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, ISBN: 0674 00865 0, 205 pp.
Reviewed by Valéry Ridde
PhD Candidate in Public Health, Laval Univeristy
Quebec
- Foreign Aid and Development – Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future
Tarp, Finn (ed.) with Peter Hjertholm
London: Routledge, 2000, ISBN: 0 415 233363 1, 498 pp.
reviewed by
David Sogge, Fellow, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Public–Private Partnerships for Public Health
Reich, Michael R. (ed.)
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies, 2002, ISBN: 0 674 00865 0, 205 pp.
reviewed by Valery Ridde, PhD Candidate in Public Health, Laval University, Quebec
- The European Union and the Third World
Holland, Martin
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, ISBN: 0 333 65905 8, 274 pp.
reviewed by Carol Cosgrove-Sacks, Director, Trade Division, United Nations Commission for Europe, Geneva
- Macro-Economics: Making Gender Matter - Concepts, Policies and Institutional Change in Developing Countries
Gutierrez, Martha (ed.)
London and New York NY: GTZ and Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 184277 061 6, 304 pp.
reviewed by
Diane Elson
Department of Sociology, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park
- Shifting Burdens: Gender and Agrarian Reform under Neo-liberalism
Razavi, Shahra (ed.)
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2002, ISBN: 1 56549 143 2, 265 pp.
reviewed by Petra Penninkhoff, Technical Advisor, Ministry of Environment,
Agriculture, and Fisheries, Cape Verde, and Senior Advisor, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam
- Denial and Distress: Gender, Poverty and Human Rights in Asia
Murthy, Ranjani K and Lakshmi Sankaran
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 81 87380 60 8, 160 pp.
reviewed by
Arcelia Martínez Bordon
Politics Department, University of York, York
- Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum
Fisher, William F and Thomas Ponniah (eds.)
London: Zed Books, 2003, ISBN: 1 84277329 1, 364 pp.
reviewed by
Alexander I Gray
Marie Curie Researcher, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao
- Development Hegemony: NGOs and the State in India
Kamat, Sangeeta
New Delhi: OUP, 2002, ISBN 019 565692 X, 187 pp.
reviewed by
Sujay Ghosh
Political Science Department, Uluberia College, Prembazar
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- Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence
Moser, Caroline O. N. and Fiona C. Clark (eds.)
London: Zed Books, 2001, ISBN: 1 85649 897 2, 254 pp.
Reviewed by Rita Manchanda
South Asia Forum for Human Rights,
Kathmandu
- Development encounters: sites of participation and knowledge
Peters, Pauline E. (ed.)
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development, 2000SBN: 0 674 00260 1, 222 pp.
Reviewed by Anthony Bebbington
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Frontiers of Development Economics: The Future in Perspective
Meier, Gerald M. and Joseph E Stiglitz (eds.)
New York, NY: World Bank/OUP, 2001, ISBN: 0 19 521592 3, 575 pp.
Reviewed by Paul Cammack, Dept of Govt, University of Manchester
- Managing Activism: A Guide to Dealing with Activists and Pressure Groups
Deegan, Denise
London:Kogan Page, 2001, ISBN: 0 7494 3435 X, 152 pp.
Reviewed by John Stauber
Centre for Media and Democracy
Canada
- Global Governance and the New Wars
Duffield, Mark
London and New York: ZED Books, 2001, ISBN: 1 856 4974946, 292 pp.
Reviewed by Mary Kaldor
Programme Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, LSE
- Faith in Development: Partnership between the World Bank and the Churches of Africa
Belshaw, Deryke, Robert Calderisi and Chris Sugden (eds.)
Oxford: Regnum Books International, 2001, ISBN: 18700345 21 5, 246 pp.
Reviewed by Steve de Gruchy, Graduate Programme in Theology & Development, University of Natal, SA
- Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building in Humanitarian Crises
Smillie, Ian (Ed.)
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, in association with IDRC and the Humanitarianism and War Project, 2001, ISBN: 156549 129 7, 212pp.
Deborah Eade
Editor, Development in Practice
- The Myth of Development: The Non-viable Economies of the 21st Century
de Rivero, Oswaldo
London: Zed Books, 2001, ISBN: 1 85649 949 9, 212pp.
Knut G. Nustad
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- Global Civil Society 2001
Anheier, Helmut; Glasius Marlies; Kaldor, Mary (eds.)
Oxford: OUP, 2001, ISBN: 0 19 924644 0, 360 pp.
Reviewed by Manuel Chririboga
Executive Secretary, Asociación Latinoamericana de Organizaciones de Promotión (ALOP), Ecuador
- Eye to Eye: Women Practising Development Across Cultures
Perry, Susan and Celeste Schenck (Eds.)
London and New York: Zed Books, 2001, ISBN: 0 87003 181 3, 290 pp.
Reviewed by Deborah Eade
Editor-in-Chief, Development in Practice
- Rule of Law in Latin America: The International Promotion of Judicial Reform
Domingo, Pilar and Rachel Sieder
London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2001, ISBN: 1 90003 939 7, 176 pp.
Reviewed by Francisco Panizza, Dept of Govt, London School of Economics, UK
- Rural Poverty Report 2001: The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty
International Fund for Agricultural Development
Oxford: OUP, 2001, ISBN:0 19924 507 X, 266 pp.
Reviewed by Chris Garforth
University of Reading
UK
- The Illusion of Progress: Unsustainable Development in International Law and Policy
Gillespie, Alexander
London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 85383 757 1, 244 pp.
Knut G. Nustad
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- Managing for Change: Leadership, Strategy and Management in Asian NGOs
Smillie, Ian and John Hailey
London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 85383 722 9, 193 pp.
Reviewed by David Lewis
Lecturer in Non-governmental Organisations, Centre for Civil Society, LSE
- Ending Violence Against Women: A Challenge for Development and Humanitarian Work
Pickup, Francine; Williams, Suzanne; Sweetman, Caroline
Oxford: Oxfam GB, 2001, ISBN: 0 85598 438 4, 366 pp.
Reviewed by Rachel Odede
UNICEF Eritrea
- Banking on Knowledge: The Genesis of the Global Development Network
Stone, Diane (ed.)
London: Routledge, 2000, ISBN: 0 41524 848 5, 266 pp.
Reviewed by Christie Gombay
University of Toronto, Canada
- The Native Tourist: Mass Tourism Within Developing Countries
Ghimire, Krishna B. (ed.)
London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 85383 804 7, 234 pp.
Reviewed by Regina Scheyvens, Senior Lecturer, Geography Programme, Massey University
- Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported? Western Political Theofy and Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe
Kymlicka, Will and Magda Opalski (eds.)
New York, NY: OUP, 2001, ISBN: 0 19 924815 X, 413 pp.
Reviewed by Ekatherina Papagianni, Columbia University, USA
- Capacity for Development: New Solutions to Old Problems
Fukuda-Parr, Sakiko, Carolos Lopes and Khalid Malik (eds.)
London: Earthscan, 2000, ISBN:1 85383 919 1, 284 pp.
Reviewed by Jose Luis Vinuesa, Andean Program on Human Rights and Democracy
- The Management of Non-governmental Development Organizations: An Introduction
Lewis, David
London: Routledge, 2001, ISBN: 0 415 2079 2, 242
Reviewed by hazel Johnson
The Open University
UK
- Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis
Tostensen Arne; Tvedten, Inge; and Vaa, Mariken (eds.)
Uppsala, Sweden: Nordisca Afrikainstituter (The Nordic Africa Institute), 2001, ISBN: 9 17106 465 6, 324 pp.
Reviewed by Michael Mattingly
Development Planning Unit
University College London
- Analytical Issues in Participatory Natural Resource Management
Vira, Bhaskar and Roger Jeffery (eds.)
London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 85383 717 2, 230 pp.
Reviewed by Rachel Wrangham
DFID/London School of Economics
- Evaluating International Humanitarian Action
Wood, Adrian; Apthorpe, Raymond; Borton, John (Eds.)
London: Zed Books, 2001, ISBN: 1 8564 9976 6, 224 pp.
Reviewed by Michael N. Pedroni
Economist, Wrightson Associates LLC
- Urban Development and Civil Society: The Role of Communities in Sustainable Societies
Carley, Michael; Jenkins, Paul; and Smith, Harry (eds.)
London:Earthscan, 2001, ISBN:1 85383 717 2, 230 pp.
Reviewed by Tod Sloan
Georgetown University
- Environments and Livelihoods: Strategies for Sustainability
Neefjes, Koos
Oxford, Oxfam, 2000, ISBN: 085598 440 6, 277 pp.
Jennifer Castleden
Internationall Institute for Sustainable Development
Canada
- Pariah States and Sanctions in the Middle East: Iraq, Libya, Sudan
Niblock, Tim
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2001, ISBN: 1 5558 7962 4, 241pp.
reviewed by Yahia H. Zoubir, Thunderbird Europe, French-Geneva Center
- Conflict and Cooperation in Participatory Natural Resource Management
Jeffery, Roger and Bhaskar Vira (Eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001, ISBN: 0 33379 277 7, 264 pp.
Reviewed by rachel Wrangham
DFID/London School of Economics
- The Microfinance Revolution
Robinson, Marguerite S.
Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001, ISBN: 0 82134 524 9, 304pp
Reviewed by Mariam S. Pal
Asian Development Bank
- Reflections on Humanitarian Action: Principles, Ethics and Contradictions
Edited by The Humanitarian Studies Unit
London: Pluto Books, 2001, ISBN: 0 7453 1726 X, 203 pp.
Reviewed by Victor Tanner
Independent consultant on the political repercussions of emergency programmes, Washington, DC
- The Water Manifesto: Arguments for a World Water Contract
Petrella, Riccardo
London: Zed Books, 2001, ISBN: 85649 906 5, 135 pp.
Reviewed by Ben Fawcett
Institute of Irrigation and Development Studies
University of Southhampton
- The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War
Vaux, Tony
London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 85383 776 8 230 pp
Reviewed by Victor Tanner
Independent consultant on the political repurcussions of emergency programmes, Washington, DC
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- World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty
World Bank
New York: OUP, 2000, ISBN:0 19521 129 4, 352 pp.
Reviewed by Peter N. Prove Lutheran World Fedderation, Geneva (the opinions expressed in this review are the author's own).
- New Roles and Relevance: Development NGOs and the Challenge of Change
Lewis, David; Wallace, Tina (eds.)
Bloomfoeld, CT: Kumarian Press, 2000, ISBN: 1 56549 120 3, 252 pp.
Reviewed by Ricardo Wilson-Grau, Novib, The Hague
- Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development
UNRISD Report for Geneva 2000
geneva: UNRISD 2000, ISBN: 9 29085 032 9, 173 pp.
Reviewed by Deborah Eade, Editor-in-chief, Development in Practice
- The State of the World’s Refugees 2000: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action
UNHCR
Oxford: OUP, 2000, ISBN: 0 19924 106 6, 340pp.
Reviewed by Sharon Rusu, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK.
- Popular Education and Social Change in Latin America
Kane, Liam
London: Latinmerican Bureau, 2001, ISBN: 1 899365 52 4
Reviewed by Migueal Pickard, Project Counselling Service, Chiapas, Mexico
- Social Development in Latin America: The Politics of Reform
Tulchin, Joseph S. ;Garland, Allison M.
Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000, ISBN 1 55587 843 1, 268 pp.
Reviewed by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara, UNRISD, Switzerland
- Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development
UNDP
New York: OUP, 2000, ISBN: 0 19521 678 4, 305 pp.
Reviewed by Peter N. Prove Lutheran World Fedderation, Geneva (the opinions expressed in this review are the author's own).
- Working with Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action
Fisher, Simon; Abdi, Dekha Ibrahim; Ludin, Jawed; Smith, Richard; Williams, Steve; Williams, Sue (eds.)
New York: Zed Books in association with Responding to Conflict, 2000, ISBN: 1 85649 837 9, 185 pp.
Reviewed by Joe Bock, Deputy Executive Officer, American Refugee Committee, Jerusalem
- Adult Education at the Crossroads: Learning Our Way Out
Finger, Matthias; Asun, Jose Manuel
London: Zed Books, 2001, ISBN: 1 85649 751, 207 pp.
Reviewed by Rosemary Ebele Nwangwu, Department of Adult Education, University of Lagos, Nigeria
- War’s Offensive on Women: The Humanitarian Challenge in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan
Mertus, Julie A.
Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2000, ISBN: 1 56549 117 3, 157 pp.
Reviewed by Charlotte Lindsey, Women and War Project, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva
- Localisation: A Global Manifesto
Hines, Colin
London: earthscan, 2000, ISBN: 1 85383 612 5, 290 pp.
Reviewed by Alan Waites, World Vision International
- Funding Virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion
Ottaway, Marina; Carothers, Thomas (eds)
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000, ISBN: 0 87003 181 3, 339 pp.
Reviewed by rebecca Buell, Head of Regional Policy, Oxfam GB
- Who Fights? Who Cares? War and Humanitarian Action in Africa
De Waal, Alex (ed.)
Trneton, NJ, and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2000, ISBN: 0 86543 864 1, 243 pp.
Reviewed by Andy Storey, Development Centre, Dublin
- Gendered Poverty and Well-Being
Razavi, Shahra (Ed.)
Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, ISBN: 0 63121 793 2, 304 pp.
Reviewed by Ines Smyth, Oxfam GB
- Social Development and Public Policy: A Study of Some Successful Experiences
Ghai, Dharam (ed.)
London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 2000, ISBN: 0 33377912 6, 379 pp.
Reviewed by Johan Saravanamuttu, School of Social Sciences, Science Univeristy of Malaysia
- World Vision Security Manual: Safety Awareness for Aid Workers
Rogers, Charles S.; Sytsma, Brian (eds.)
Geneva
Reviewed by Scott Custer, Relief Solutions, USA
- The Virtuous Spiral: a Guide to Sustainability for Non-governmental Organisations in International Development
Fowler, Alan
London: Earthscan, 2000, ISBN: 1 85383 610 9, 225 pp.
Reviewed by Firoze Manji, Fahamu, Oxford
- World Disasters Report 2000: Focus on Public Health
Walker, Peter and Walter, Jonathan (Eds.)
Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross amd Red Crescent Societies, 2000, ISBN: 9 29139 066 6, 240 pp.
Reviewed by Egbert Sondorp, London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Food Aid and Human Security
Clay, Edward; Stokke, Edward (eds.)
London: Frank Cass, 2000, ISBN: 071468 125 3, 407 pp.
Reviewed by Tony Jackson, International Alert, London
- Operational Security Management in Violent Environments
Van Brabrant, Koenraad
London: Overseas Development Institute, 2000, ISBN: 0 85003 457 4, 354 pp.
Reviewed by Scott Custer, Relief Solutions, USA
- The Network Inside Out
Riles, Annelise
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000, ISBN: 0 47211 071 3, 242 pp.
Reviewed by Nicola Frost, Reviews Editor, Development in Practice
- Feminists Doing Development: A Practical Critique
Porter, Marilyn; Judd, Ellen (eds.)
London Zed Books, 1999, ISBN: 1 85649 694 5, 246 pp.
Reviewed by Nici Nelson, Goldsmiths College, London
- Poverty in Plenty: A Human Development Report for the UK
Seymour, Jane (ed.)
London: Earthscan, 2000, ISBN: 1 85383 707 5.
Reviewed by Kate Evans, ATD Fourth World, UK
- Towards Financial Self-reliance: A Handbook on Resource Mobilisation for Civil Society Organisations in the South
Holloway, Richard
London: Earthscan, 2001, ISBN: 1 85383 733 3, 232 pp.
Reviewed by Cecilia Iorio, Formerly Oxfam GB, Brazil
- Contesting Global Governance: Multilateral Economic Institutions and Global Social Movements
O’Brien, Robert; Goetz,Anne Marie; Scholte, Jan Aart; Williams, Marc
Cambridge: CUP, 2000, ISBN: 0 52177 440 3, 260 pp.
Reviewed by Kelly Currah, World Vision International
- Risks and Reconstruction: Experiences of Resettlers and Refugees
Cernea, Michael M.; McDowell, Christopher (eds.)
Washington, DC: World Bank, 2000, ISBN: 0 82134 444 7, 487 pp.
Reviewed byPatricia Feeney, Oxfam GB, Oxford
- Global Governance, Development and Human Security: The Challenges of Poverty and Inequality
Thomas, Caroline
London: Pluto Press, 2000, ISBN: 0 7453 1421 X, 149 pp.
Reviewed by Wilder Robles, Langara College, Vancouver
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