 | Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North Subjects: Global Development; Geography; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Global Development; Development Theory; Gender & Development; Politics & Development; Sociology & Social Policy; Human Geography; Cultural Studies; Sociology; Development Geography; African Cultural Studies; American Cultural Studies; Third World Studies; Social Inequality; Gender Studies; Political Sociology; Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North, is a provocative, engaging and interesting collection of real-world case studies in development and globalization focusing on under-emphasized threats to growth and human welfare worldwide. Created by two of America's top development sociologists, it targets undergraduates, graduates, academics and development professionals. Crises such as falling state capacity, declining technological innovation, increasing class inequality and persisting gender inequality are considered, along with their economic and social consequences. Rae Lesser Blumberg is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Samuel Cohn is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. |
