Book on Introduction to Development‎ Available to Persian Readers

Date: 10 December 2021 - 21:49

News ID: ۹۷۵۸۳

TEHRAN (IBNA) -- Persian translation of ‘Thinking about Development’ (2009), a book by Swedish ‎scholar Bjorn Hettne described as a clear and concise introduction to the idea of ‎development has been published.‎
The book is from ‘Development Matters’ series published by Bloomsbury Academic which also bears the name of Helen Yanacopulos as series editor. It has been translated into Persian by Mohammad-Mehdi Dehdar. Pegah Rouzegar-e No Publishing has released ‘Thinking about Development’ in 218 pages.
This book is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice, and - a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking should be historically contextualized, not presented as evolving towards a universal theory.
The book will present development as an ‘essentially contested concept’, that has meant a number of things at various times to different people in different places. Focusing on historical discourses from the initial colonial encounters through to the modern day, Hettne draws the connections between the enlightenment belief in ‘progress’ through to the more recent focus on the Millennium Development Goals.
The first volume in the ‘Development Matters’ series this book provides the key frame for the series as a whole, enabling readers to locate texts on themes such as environmental justice, technology and development learning within a broader historical, conceptual and political context than the immediate policy and output needs of neoliberalism.
Bjorn Hettne is Professor Emeritus of Peace and Development Studies at Gothenburg University. His main research has been in India, and he has written a large number of books and articles on development theory, global regionalism, international relations, the development-security nexus, as well as Europe and the world order.