Development Studies

Bringing together Indigenous voices, this collection examines strategies for protecting and recuperating Indigenous environmental and cultural heritage.

Settler Ecologies reveals how settler colonialism impacts and endures through ecological relations.

The latest title in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series offers practical advice on how best to successfully design, deliver, and evaluate efficient cash transfer programs.

This book introduces students to methodological, ethical, and epistemological foundations of research.

Told from the vantage point of the "Hub of the North," this student-friendly ethnography examines the boom and bust of Canada’s diamond industry.

Apostles of Inequality explores how changes to land use and ideas about political economy in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century England drove cottagers from the land and impoverished rural workers.

Imperial Engineers traces the history of what was once the preeminent engineering school of the British Empire, from its foundation to its final crises and closure.

This book examines how state actors and other stakeholders participate in natural resource governance initiatives and seek to promote natural resource-based development in Africa.

By attending to the divergent forces and actors involved in property development in different geopolitical contexts, The Speculative City illustrates both the novelty and historical continuity of urbanization in the twentieth-first century.

The Caribbean on the Edge offers frameworks for the study of policy issues facing the Caribbean and identifies a new way of thinking among those who influence public decision making.

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.

Degrees of Dignity examines how global discourses and policy models are affecting and altering contemporary higher education systems in the Arab Middle East and North Africa.

Drawing on extensive original qualitative research, Global Health and The Village brings the complex local and transnational factors governing women’s access to safe maternity care into focus.

Global Development and Human Rights analyses global efforts to implement long-term goals that seek to promote the health, happiness, and freedoms of individuals.