This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership.  Meer

This book uncovers how power operates around the world, and how it can be resisted or transformed through empowered collective action and social leadership.  Meer

Rural Development in Practice focuses on the evolving nature of rural development in the Global South. It outlines how we got to where we are today, checks what we can learn from history, and explores the development drivers, facilitators, and obstacles most likely to shape the years ahead.  Meer

Africans living in the diaspora have a unique position as potential agents of change in helping to address Africa’s political and socioeconomic challenges.  Meer

Whilst education has been widely recognised as a key tool for development, this has tended to be limited to the incremental changes that education can bring about within a given development paradigm, as opposed to its role in challenging dominant conceptions and practices of development and creating alternatives.  Meer

Whilst education has been widely recognised as a key tool for development, this has tended to be limited to the incremental changes that education can bring about within a given development paradigm, as opposed to its role in challenging dominant conceptions and practices of development and creating alternatives.  Meer

This book explores the practical delivery of participatory arts projects in international development. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics, international development professionals and arts practitioners, the book engages honestly with the competing challenges faced by the different groups of people involved.  Meer

This book explores the practical delivery of participatory arts projects in international development. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics, international development professionals and arts practitioners, the book engages honestly with the competing challenges faced by the different groups of people involved.  Meer

Why do so many efforts to use digital tech to help the world’s poor end in failure? The book provides a detailed critique of previous theory and practice, whilst proposing realistic suggestions for good practice.  Meer

Why do so many efforts to use digital tech to help the world’s poor end in failure? The book provides a detailed critique of previous theory and practice, whilst proposing realistic suggestions for good practice.  Meer

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development. The book will be an important guide for students, researchers and practitioners looking for better ways to address the desires and aspirations of marginalised communities in the Global South.  Meer

1) Original book with chapters written by Brazilian researchers and colleagues from Universities in the Global North; 2) New and interdisciplinary interpretations of democracy, development, and sustainability; 3) Word Political Economy theoretical frontier linking class, race, and gender conflicts; 4) Challenges’ diagnoses and proposal of solutions for the future of the World Political Economy after the Covid-19 crisis.  Meer

1) Original book with chapters written by Brazilian researchers and colleagues from Universities in the Global North; 2) New and interdisciplinary interpretations of democracy, development, and sustainability; 3) Word Political Economy theoretical frontier linking class, race, and gender conflicts; 4) Challenges’ diagnoses and proposal of solutions for the future of the World Political Economy after the Covid-19 crisis.  Meer

This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19 to the foreign aid and development system, and the extent to which the system is retaining a level of relevance, legitimacy, or coherence.  Meer

Africans living in the diaspora have a unique position as potential agents of change in helping to address Africa’s political and socioeconomic challenges.  Meer

This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19 to the foreign aid and development system, and the extent to which the system is retaining a level of relevance, legitimacy, or coherence.  Meer

-Written in a style that is engaging and accessible to a wide range of readers, from students to practitioners -Each chapter includes reflection...  Meer

In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development.  Meer

In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development.  Meer

At a time when the global development industry is under more pressure than ever before, this book argues that an end to poverty can only be achieved by prioritizing human dignity.  Meer