Rural Latin America: exclusionary and uneven agricultural development / Crist∫£obal Kay -- Urban transformation and survival strategies / Sandor Halebsky -- Demilitarization and democratic transition in Latin America / Jorge Nef -- The contemporary Latin American economies : neoliberal...

The evaluative framework of Sen’s capability approach provides the most robust alternative to utilitarian economics and its income and growth oriented vision of development. However, despite its affirmation of human flourishing as development objective, it does not provide an alternative to...

The aim of this paper is to describe the primary changes and development that outlined the history of Colonial Punjab and to narrate grassroots and provincial perspectives on the changes. I examine with a blend of grassroots and provincial perspectives by contextualizing actual historical events...

The volume challenges dominant narratives of progress with a rich range of investigations of local struggles from the Global south which are based on original ethnographic research. The chapters take a point of departure in ideas and concepts developed by the pioneering anthropologist Eric R....