Books in the Routledge Critical Development Studies series

This book critically explores the development and resistance dynamics generated by conflicting forces of social change in Latin America. This collection offers an essential analysis of the vortex of social change currently consuming Latin America and is key reading for advanced scholars and researchers in the field.

Looks at the widespread quest for concrete alternative ways forward 'beyond capitalism' in the face of the prevailing corporatocracy and a capitalist system in crisis.

The book speaks to the widespread quest for concrete alternative ways forward ''beyond capitalism'' in the face of the prevailing corporatocracy and a capitalist system in crisis. It examines a number of institutions and practices now being built in the nooks and crannies of present societies and that point beyond capitalism toward a more equal, participatory, and democratic society ΓÇô institutions such as cooperatives, public banks, the commons, economic democracy. This seminal collection of critical studies draws on academic and activist voices from the U.S. and Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Argentina, and from a variety of theoretical-political perspectives ΓÇô Marxism, anarchism, feminism, and Zapatismo.

Reframing Latin American Development brings together leading scholars from Latin America and elsewhere to discuss the Latin American experience with alternative forms of development over the last three decades of the neoliberal era.

This book shines a light on many of the problems surrounding microcredit and microfinance, in particular the short and long-term impacts of dramatically rising levels of microdebt. Lively and provocative, The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit is an accessible guide for students, academics, policy-makers and development professionals alike.

The term neoextractivism was coined to describe how income from natural resources sales can be used for development objectives and to improve the lives of a country's citizens. However, this book argues that neoextractivism is merely another outlet for capitalist development, reinforcing the position of elites, with few benefits for working people.

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.