Alternative Development

This Book Discusses Alternative Development And Its Relevance For Local/global Processes Of Marginalization And Change In The Global South. It Questions Who The Producers Of Development Knowledges And Practices Are, And Aims At Decentring Development And Geographical Knowledge From The Anglo-american Centre And The Global North. The Main Strength Of The Book Is That It Calls For A Central Role For Alternative Development In The Current Development Discourse, Most Notably Related To Justice, Rights, Globalization, Forced Migration, Conflict And Climate Change. Alternative Development : Unravelling Marginalization, Voicing Change / Cathrine Brun And Piers Blaikie -- Towards An Engaged Political Ecology / Piers Blaikie -- Teaching To Learn-learning To Teach : Learning Experiences From The Reality Of An Ever-changing World / Hans Skotte -- Foreign Direct Investment, Local Development And Poverty Reduction : The Sustainability Of The Salmon Industry In Southern Chile / Arnt Fløisand And Jonathan R. Barton -- Housing The Urban Poor In Metropolitan Accra, Ghana : What Is The Role Of The State In The Era Of Liberalization And Globalization? / George Owusu -- Implementing International Consensus On Women In Development : Context, Policy And Practice / Ingrid Eide -- Muted Power : Gender Segregation And Female Power / Vibeke Vågenes -- Gender, Politics And Development In Accra, Ghana / Samuel Agyei-mensah And Charlotte Wrigley-asante --^ Ignored Voices Of Globalization : Women's Agency In Coping With Human Rights Violations In An Export Processing Zone In Sri Lanka / Chamila Attanapola -- No More Tears Sister : Feminist Politics In Sri Lanka / Jennifer Hyndman -- Renegotiating Local Values : The Case Of Fanjingshan Reserve, China / Stuart C. Aitken, Li An, Sarah Wandersee And Yeqin Yang -- Right To Rights : Adivasi (tribal) Women In The Context Of Not-so-silent Revolution In Odisha, India / Smita Mishra-panda -- The Reemergence Of Environmental Causation In Migration Studies And Its Relevance For Bangladesh / Haakon Lein -- Discourses That Hide : Gender, Migration And Security In Climate Change / Babette Resurreccion -- Impacts Of Internal Displacement On Women's Agency In Two Displacement Contexts In Sri Lanka / Fazeeha Azmi -- Coping Capacity Of Small-scale Fish Border Traders In Cambodia / Kyoko Kusakabe --^ Spontaneous Frontier Migration In Sri Lanka : Conflict And Cooperation In State-migrant Relations / Berit Helene Vandsemb -- Researching Forced Migration At The Interface Of Theory, Policy And Practice / Cathrine Brun And Ragnhild Lund -- Researching Alternative Development : An Autobiographical Discussion With Ragnhild Lund / Michael Jones. Edited By Cathrine Brun, Piers Blaikie, Michael Jones. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.