| By Anthony Bebbington | UNRISD Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper Number 32, October 2010. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development: Geneva | | Official website and full text | Summary: Poverty and inequality are both products and producers of the prevailing relationships of power in a society. By many definitions, social movements are […]
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Understanding the lessons and limitations of conservation and development
| By J.Oldekop, A. Bebbington, D. Brockington, R. Preziosi | Conservation Biology 24(2): 461-469 | Abstract: The lack of concrete instances in which conservation and development have been successfully merged has strengthened arguments for strict exclusionist conservation policies. Research has focused more on social cooperation and conflict of different management regimes and less on how these factors actually […]
Trusteeship, ethnography and the challenge of critique in/of development
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(1): 229-232 (part of a forum on Tani Li’s The Will to Improve) |
Development: Social capital
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in the International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, pp 165-170. Edited by N. Thrift and R. Kitchin. Oxford: Elsevier. | Abstract: The concept of social capital generally refers to the assets that reside within social actors’ relationships. These assets are understood as constituting an important part of people’s identities, livelihood and political strategies, […]
The World Development Report 2009 ‘reshapes economic geography’: geographical reflections
| By J. Rigg, A. Bebbington, K.Gough, D. Bryceson, J. Agergaard, N.Fold, Cecilia Tacoli | Published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34 (2): 128-136 | | Full text (PDF) | Introduction: By and large, geographers have had little to say about the World Bank’s annual flagship World Development Reports (WDRs). However, with the just published WDR 2009 […]
Latin America: contesting extraction, producing geographies
| By Anthony Bebbington | Published in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 30(1): 7-12 | Abstract: Characterizing continents is the business of fools, inviting the charge of essentialization, overgeneralization, and caricature of nuanced and complex processes varying across space and over time. Likewise it can attract the criticism that to privilege the national or the regional […]
Can NGOs Make A Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives
| Edited by A. Bebbington, S. Hickey, D. Mitlin | Published by Zed, London | | Purchasing information | Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading […]
Institutional pathways to equity: addressing inequality traps
| Editors: A. Bebbington, A. Dani, A de Haan, M. Walton | Published by The World Bank, Washington, DC | | Full text PDF | Contents: Inequalities and development: dysfunctions, traps, and transitions by Anthony J. Bebbington, Anis A. Dani, Arjan de Haan, and Michael Walton. Asset inequality and agricultural growth: how are patterns of asset […]
Social movements and the dynamics of rural territorial development in Latin America
| By A.Bebbington, R. Abramovay, M. Chiriboga | Published in World Development, 36(12): 2874-2887 | Summary: This special section brings together 4 of the 12 studies conducted within a research program analyzing the relationships among social mobilization, governance, and rural development in contemporary Latin America. The introduction gives an overview of the contemporary significance of social […]
Social Movements and the Dynamics of Rural Development in Latin America
| Edited by A.Bebbington, R. Abramovay, and M. Chiriboga | Special section of World Development 36(12) | Summary: This special section brings together 4 of the 12 studies conducted within a research program analyzing the relationships among social mobilization, governance, and rural development in contemporary Latin America. The introduction gives an overview of the contemporary significance […]