The Political Economy of Underdevelopment in the Global South
The Government-Business-Media Complex
Authors: Van der Merwe, Justin, Dodd, Nicole
Free Preview- Analyzes the GBM complex and how it can be used as a framework to drive development
- Looks at aid and development in the Global South at a structural and descriptive level
- Examines how foreign aid and investment affects development
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This book presents a new theory explaining underdevelopment in the global South and tests whether financial inputs, the government-business-media (GBM) complex and spatiotemporal influences drive human development. Despite the entrance of emerging powers and new forms of aid, trade and investment, international political-economic practices still support well-established systems of capital accumulation, to the detriment of the global South. Global asymmetrical accumulation is maintained by ‘affective’ (consent-forming hegemonic practices) and ‘infrastructural’ (uneven economic exchanges) labours and by power networks. The message for developing countries is that ‘robust’ GBMs can facilitate human development and development is constrained by spatiotemporal limitations. This work theorizes that aid and foreign direct investment should be viewed with caution and that in the global South these investments should not automatically be assumed to be drivers of development.
- About the authors
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Justin van der Merwe is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, Faculty of Military Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Nicole Dodd is Chair at the School for Human and Organisational Development, Faculty of Military Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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The Roots of Dispossession
Pages 1-15
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Different Schools, Same Problems: Development Theory in the Twentieth Century
Pages 17-33
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From Neoliberalism to Post-development: Development Theory’s Decline and Redefinition
Pages 35-54
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Marx, Gramsci, and Power Networks
Pages 55-74
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Uneven Development and Capital Accumulation: The Government-Business-Media Complex
Pages 75-96
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Political Economy of Underdevelopment in the Global South
- Book Subtitle
- The Government-Business-Media Complex
- Authors
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- Justin Van der Merwe
- Nicole Dodd
- Series Title
- International Political Economy Series
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-05096-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-05096-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-05095-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 209
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
