Celebrating 40 Years of Cutting Edge Development Research
Development and Change
Edited by:
Murat Arsel, Kees Biekart, Amrita Chhachhi, Bridget O'Laughlin, Ashwani Saith and Servaas Storm
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 19/43 Planning & Development
Impact Factor: 1.0
One of the leading international journals in the field of development studies and social change, Development and Change now appears six times a year, including the Development and Change Forum issue. Truly interdisciplinary in character, it includes contributions from all the social sciences and all intellectual persuasions concerned with development. With its history of publishing unconventional and challenging articles, the journal covers a broad range of topics in a mix of regular and special theme issues. Development and Change is devoted to the critical analysis and discussion of the complete spectrum of development issues.
TopNews and Announcements
Free Trial Access to all Content - Celebrating Development and Change at 40!
To celebrate 40 years of Development and Change, we are offering free access to all content back to Volume 1, 1970. Over its 40 year period, Development and Change has become one of the leading international journals in the field of development studies and social change, including contributions from leading authors across the social sciences. Discover a history of unconventional and challenging articles, devoted to the complete spectrum of development issues including The Forum issue, an unmissable annual resource for the student, teacher and practitioner of development
Start your free trial today! - Browse the classic article highlights selected by the editorial board below. We hope you enjoy your free trial, discovering your own list of classic articles!
The 2009 Forum Issue - Free Online
The Forum issue is an unmissable annual resource for the student, teacher and practitioner of development. This exciting annual issue has been made free access to celebrate Development and Change at 40! With a different guest editor each year, The Forum has a different character to the regular issues of Development and Change. In a number of self-contained sections, it provides an annual review of the state of the art of certain aspects of development studies, including:
• Focus: thematic review articles on major topics in the literature
• Debate: cutting edge contributions on a specific topic or issue
• Reflections: interviews with key figures in the world of development
• Legacies: a look back at the role played in development studies by influential individuals
• Assessments: incisive reviews of major international agency reports such as the World Development Report and the Human Development Report
Browse the issue contents here.
Electronic Editorial Office
Authors are now able to submit their paper to Development and Change online via the new Electronic Editorial Office. Benefits will include:
• Quicker peer review
• Web-based manuscript tracking
• Online Reviewing
• Faster Response
Submit your paper online to Development and Change
Development and Change Book Series
Development and Change publishes regular special issues on selected themes. Development and Change and Wiley-Blackwell collaborate to produce these theme issues as a series of books, with the aim of bringing these pertinent resources to a wider audience. Recent titles from the series include Twilight Institutions edited by Christian Lund and China's Limits to Growth edited by Peter Ho and Eduard B. Vermeer.
For details of the full list of titles from the Development and Change book series click here.
Developing World Free Access
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
TopHighlights
FREE ACCESS - Classic articles from Development and Change
Below we have listed our choice of classic and key articles nominated by the Development and Change Editorial Team, celebrating 40 years of cutting edge development research:
The Global Financial Crisis, interviewed by Alex Izurieta
Robert Wade (2009)
Governing Capital? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Limits of Regulation
Bridget O'Laughlin (2008)
From Universal Values to Millennium Development Goals: Lost in Translation
Ashwani Saith (2006)
Relocating Participation within a Radical Politics of Development
Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan (2005)
Orientalism Once More
Edward Said (2004)
The Developmental State is Dead - Long Live Social Capital?
Ben Fine (1999)
My Paradigm or Yours? Alternative Development, Post-Development, Reflexive Development
Jan Nederveen Pieterse (1998)
Daughters, Decisions and Domination: An Empirical and Conceptual Critique of Household Strategies
Diane Wolf (1990)
Conceptualizing the Household: Issues of Theory and Policy in Africa
Jane Guyer and Pauline Peters (1987)
How Agribusiness Operates in Underdeveloped Agricultures: Harvard Business School Myths and Reality
Ernst Feder (1976)
The New Generalism and the Crisis in Planning
Kurt Martin (1971-2)
TopEndorsements
The journal is truly interdisciplinary and welcomes articles which are accessible to a broad audience. It has a very good balance between theoretical and empirical articles. Development and Change regularly publishes extremely well known development economists, historians and sociologists.
Carmen Diana Deere, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
