Recognition and redistribution : beyond international development / edited by Heloise Weber and Mark T. Berger.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Beyond international development / Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber -- Part 1: History, power, knowledge, and international development -- Keeping the world safe for primary colors: area studies, development studies, international studies, and the vicissitudes of nation-building / Mark T. Berger -- Social regulation in the time of war: constituting the current crisis / Shelley Feldman -- On the critique of the subject of development: beyond proprietary and methodological individualism / Martin Weber -- Part 2: Global dimensions and social and political contradictions of international development -- 'Failed states' and 'state failure': threats or opportunities? / Morten Boas and Kathleen M. Jennings -- From the politics of development to the challenges of globalization / Jennifer Bair -- Taming corporations or buttressing market-led development? A critical assessment of the global compact / Susanne Soederberg -- A global knowledge bank? The World Bank and bottom-up efforts to reinforce neoliberal development perspectives in the post-Washington Consensus era / Dieter Plehwe -- Rethinking the global production of uneven development / Marcus Taylor -- Part 3: Bringing recognition and redistribution in and moving beyond international development -- Re-envisioning global development: conceptual and methodological issues / Sandra Halperin -- Political analysis of the formal comparative method: historicizing the globalization and development debate / Heloise Weber -- International political economy/development otherwise / Cristina Rojas -- The Poverty of the Global Order / Dia Da Costa and Philip McMichael -- Conclusion: Towards recognition and redistribution in global politics / Heloise Weber and Mark T. Berger.

This text offers new insights into the politics of development. Integrating the politics of identity and redistribution through critical reinterpretations of historical and contemporary development processes, it is a genuine attempt to 're-think' the politics of global development.