Development
Virgin Capital
Ethnography situating the contemporary financial services industry in the US Virgin Islands within broader histories of racial capitalism and gender inequality.
A Great Undertaking
Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century.
Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Second Edition
Newly updated comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns.
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition
New edition of Aihwa Ong’s classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.
Technology, Development, and Democracy
The impact of internet technologies on international politics.
Constructing Sustainable Development
Defines, analyzes, critiques, and proposes new policy solutions for achieving sustainable development.
Restructuring Development Theories and Policies
Explains and critiques current theories of political development.
Democratization and Social Settlements
Examines the transition to, and consolidation of, democracy in Portugal following the revolutionary events of 1975, during a period of major changes in socioeconomic structure. Nataf emphasizes that not only political institutions but also the fabric of social relations were uprooted, and he compares the Portuguese case to other models of European democratization and postwar settlements.
Communities on the Way
It's become an all too familiar headline—plant closes, employees laid off, another community plunged into economic despair. Stewart Perry looks beyond the headlines to our "forgotten" communities, showing ...