{"product_id":"development-and-its-discontents-andy-sumner-9780198902874","title":"Development and Its Discontents","description":"\u003cem\u003eDevelopment and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical examination of development studies' history and what it has become, and what it might yet be. It argues that the field is increasingly differentiated along competing modes of thought, worldviews, and claims to knowledge, bringing long-running debates about the study of development back into sharp focus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on cross-disciplinary thinking on development, from the rise of classical development economics and the anti-colonial momentum of the Bandung era to contemporary decolonial critiques, the book maps the intellectual currents that have shaped development studies and the tensions and debates that now structure it. The result is a framework for recognising the field's internal pluralism and for taking interdisciplinarity more seriously, without pretending that its disagreements are merely semantic. For scholars and students, \u003cem\u003eDevelopment and Its Discontents \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a guide to the intellectual architecture of development studies, its contested boundaries, and the questions now shaping its future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Sumner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198902875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198902874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Andy Sumner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48460386894079,"sku":"9780198902874","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58f60c0c-1514-4307-b779-8a94d978d8e1.jpg?v=1777414415","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/development-and-its-discontents-andy-sumner-9780198902874","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}