Transcending Neoliberalism: Community -Based Development in
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Veltmeyer, Henry / O'Malley, Anthony, PUBLISHER: Kumarian Press, ""Worthy of close attention from students of development thought and practice...Committed to alternative, democratic, socially equitable, and ecologically sustainable ong>communityong> development."" --Labour/Le Travail, Fall ""An insightful contribution to studies of counter trends from below against... the unfettered globalization of democracy and free markets."" --Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol 30. No. 2 ""A refreshing critique of the concept of ong>communityong>-ong>basedong> development...Recommended for graduate students and faculty."" --Choice, April *A superior volume with contributions from top scholars *Explores critical dimensions of ong>communityong>-ong>basedong> economic development in Latin America "Transcending Neoliberalism" examines the role of ong>communityong>, participation, decentralization, and empowering social movements in the quest for equitable development in Latin America. Over the past two decades, in the context of an epoch-defining process of globalization, a form of development has emerged that moves beyond the neoliberal focus on both market and state--one that reaches back for ideas into communities that have been created within rural and urban societies of developing and developed areas.