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Top of pageVolume 46 (2003)
March 2003, Volume 46, Number 1
Mediating Citizenship in The Global Network Society
Continuing Development's exploration of globalization from different facets, this issue explores the impact of the information age from global economic, technological, social and cultural perspectives. It is inspired by the pioneering 'Information Age' trilogy of Manuel Castells (1996) and includes the articles of several scholars who attended a seminar on 'Transformations of the Public Sphere in the Age of the Global Network Society' at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld, Germany, in May 2002.
June 2003, Volume 46, Number 2
Globalization, Reproductive Rights and Health
(excerpts have been translated into Italian)
Based on papers and discussions held during a series of SID-UNFPA dialogues on 'Building Alliances for Women's Empowerment and Health', this issue explores the intersection of the global 'population', gender and development agenda and women's agenda in their region and locality as women have worked together to change population policies to become women-centred with a holistic rather than narrow technical approach. It also picks up on different ways women are working with globalization to counteract negative impacts on their health and livelihoods in the different regions, and the final section tells the stories of women at the local level who are trying to create an enabling environment for their sexual and reproductive rights and health.
September 2003, Volume 46, Number 3
Migration: Citizenship, Identity and Rights
This issue focuses on migration, examining the issues from a citizen and human rights framework rather than economic development policy. The human rights framework shifts the discussion from how to prevent mass population movement from South to North or within the South, to the rights of migrants, refugees and displaced people within their new environment and possibly permanent sense of loss of home, identity and citizenship rights, even if experienced as a very fluid situation. The articles also show the very real problems refugees and migrants face, and also just how deeply embedded migration is in our globalized economy, how difficult it is for individuals to be protected and the very real struggle of nations and international institutions to do so.
December 2003, Volume 46, Number 4
Development and Religion
This issue on the theme of development and religion endeavours to bring together the opinions from religious affiliations around the world and also faith-based development workers on their experiences, hopes and concerns on the interlinkages between religion and development, a connection that is rarely addressed in lay dominated development policy dialogues.
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March 2002, Volume 45, Number 1
Place, Politics and Justice: Women Negotiating Globalization
(also available in Spanish)
This issue continues the discussion on place-based politics bringing an analysis of women's political organizing in the context of globalization into dialogue with the conceptual work of activist intellectuals engaged in debates about the nature of globalization.
June 2002, Volume 45, Number 2
Is Another World Possible? World Development for Peace and Freedom
September 11 2001 ushered in a deep sense of uncertainty for the USA and Europe that demands to be analysed and reviewed from diverse standpoints. In the South, September 11 marks not so much a change but an increased threat that world powers will focus on terrorism and move even further away from goals of social justice and human security. With these scenarios, a critical choice is to turn away from the grand narratives of civilizational struggle, 'empire versus the evil axis' and to seek a pluralistic position that builds on the new forms of networks, processes and flows of civil society.
September 2002, Volume 45, Number 3
Failed Promises: Sustainable Development Ten Years Later
Published to coincide with the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, this issue looks at the changing position of civil society since the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. Issues of consumption, lifestyle of the rich, new ways to organize work, networking, and connecting national and community and place-based rights are now on the agenda. Although the US-based policymakers and media may try to ignore all that is said, the new civil society institutions are creating, from positions of knowledge and strength, ways to challenge dominant powers and to fight against ill health, violence and poverty.
December 2002, Volume 45, Number 4
Creating Global Communication: Development and the New Information and Communication Strategies
(also available in Spanish)
There is a great deal of enthusiasm for the new information and communication technologies, but also forebodings about just how transformative they can be. The core concern addressed by articles in this issue are not about how to ensure access to ICTs but about how to ensure the necessary changes in political, social and economic processes that allow people to participate fully in the new information and communication society. This ranges from concerns about education and intellectual property rights to governance processes.
Volume 44 (2001)
March 2001, Volume 44, Number 1
Partnership in Health and Poverty
(translated into French and Spanish)
This special edition brings together a set of papers and ideas discussed at a meeting on 'partnership in health and poverty reduction' which took place at the World Health Organization in Geneva in June 2000. The meeting was organized by WHO in partnership with the World Bank, European Community, UK Department for International Development, and SID. Strong interest in the theme was expressed by governments of developing countries, UN and bilateral agencies, the IMF, World Bank and regional banks, key civil society organizations and academic institutions.
June 2001, Volume 44, Number 2
Women's Rights and Child Rights
Since the 1990s, human rights has become one of the main pillars of development thinking and policy with the shift from assistance and charity to a broader, more political, struggle around people's rights to freedom to live a dignified and fulfilling life. The women's rights movements around the world have been at the forefront of this shift. The child rights movement has added its own voice strongly in the last decade. However even given major legal and political recognition of women's rights, and today's strong focus on child rights, growing income inequities, poor access to resources and deeply engrained gender biases prevent women and children from enjoying full economic, social and political rights. This edition of Development aims to explore how the women's rights and child rights movements could best confront this situation by exploring what these two movements can offer each other.
September 2001, Volume 44, Number 3
Violence Against Women and the Culture of Masculinity
(excerpts translated into Italian)
This issue closely follows the previous theme of women's rights and child rights (Volume 44, Number 2) to look at violence against women and the culture of masculinity. It aims to map out the state of 'body politics' - the political defence of women's freedom and the right to bodily integrity, autonomy and security. The articles show how the fight to end violence against women is at the heart of body politics and the first entry point for women's economic, social and political rights.
December 2001, Volume 44, Number 4
Focus on Food Security
Here we turn to the most basic of issue of body politics - the need to nourish and sustain the body with food. It seems almost gratuitous to state that food security and the livelihoods required for food self sufficiency of an individual and community should be at the core of any development that works towards social justice. Unfortunately, once more, we see that food security, the basic right to livelihood, is not of priority to today's global actors. Food security is rarely perceived as a vital political issue, a 'hot' issue, but marginalized as a concern for the dwindling sources of development aid, a concern for charity not solidarity, not the real battle.
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March 2000, Volume 43, Number 1
A Children's Agenda for a New Millennium
This issue has been crafted by many contributors: children themselves and those in the UN and NGOs world who have devoted their lives to protecting and promoting children's needs and above all listening to children. Many of the articles emphasize the rights of children to have a direct say in their lives, particularly when they are facing the consequences of brutal social breakdown through war, economic crisis and basic deprivation.
June 2000, Volume 43, Number 2
Commitments and Challenges: Reviewing Social Development
Who would say that eradication of poverty, promotion of full employment, social integration and social services for all are not among their priorities? In 1995, 117 heads of State and Government and ministerial delegations from 69 countries adopted ten commitments of the World Summit for Social Development that were to pave the way for national and international social development. Yet five years later the resource constraints, political machinations, conflicts and natural disasters seemed to have maintained business as usual. The rich get richer, the poor poorer, governments struggle while global business thrives. It seems the commendable commitments have remained on paper. Nothing has changed. Or has it?
September 2000, Volume 43, Number 3
Peoples' Peace Movements
We all too often see the victims and horrors of war on our television sets and in the newspapers. What we do not see are the people who in their daily lives are living and surviving the conflict. Who, with families and friends and even enemies, are building their society anew, finding ways to confront and move on from the past, overcome the bitterness and transform it into peace. In this journal issue the spotlight is on the peoples' groups who work together in their community, across the traditional fighting lines, beyond the war zones, to remake their society and even their culture for a sustainable future.
December 2000, Volume 43, Number 4
Past, Present and Post-Development
In a climate where vision, ideals, democracy, participation, justice, responsibility and governance are called for regularly by world leaders, one would hope that we will have some redirection among global decision-making powers. The issue of Development produced for the five-year review of the World Summit for Social Development held in June 2000 carried articles that were confidently looking for real commitment and change to ensure poverty eradication, equitable allocation of resources within and between countries and the social and economic 'enabling environment' for sustainable development to proceed. But despite best efforts the Geneva meeting seemed hollow. All the doubts were there but little vision or commitment to change.
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March 1999, Volume 42, Number 1
Reproductive Health and Rights: Putting Cairo into Action
(excerpts translated into French, Italian, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu)
This issue focuses on reproductive rights and health as a contribution to the Cairo+5 process to review the impact, achievements and goals set by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, in September 1994. The discussion on reproductive rights and health brings to the fore human-centred and gender aware challenges to development policies grappling with the impact of globalization and economic crises.
June 1999, Volume 42, Number 2
Environmental Politics
Preserving the environment - both natural resources and social and cultural environments - has become one of the major political issues of the 1990s. Environment has shifted from a bounty to be reaped by development to a fiery issue at the centre of many conflicts worldwide. Strategies to preserve the environment dig deep into the foundations of development as a global project. Conflicts over natural resources and cultural degradations are escalating as the unsustainability of development is exposed. And cultural and social environmental needs linked to localities are increasingly receiving recognition particularly with the new communications fostering worldwide Internet campaigns.
September 1999, Volume 42, Number 3
The Politics of Aid: A New Framework of Development Cooperation
With the impact of globalization, development cooperation is increasingly under question and even seen as marginalized in some world debates. Global economic crises, escalating conflicts and the new geo-politics of the post-cold war era overshadow the North-South dialogue. The articles in this issue of Development challenge this trend head-on. They show that the crisis of globalization has forced a re-thinking of the old style of development cooperation. The politics of justifying aid today demands an exposure of past faulty political and economic allegiances. 'Business as usual', riddled by self-interest, cultural insensitivity, corruption and fatal blows to communities and environments has to change. But the answer is not just for donor countries to pull out, for the North-South-East dialogue to close and the ground cleared for markets and globalization to carry on full-swing. The authors show that there is too much at stake for the majority of the world - the economically poor - for development just to close shop.
December 1999, Volume 42, Number 4
Responses to Globalization: Rethinking Development and Equity
Globalization has ushered in a new epoch in world politics some what conflictingly characterized by rapid economic transformation, new trade regimes and a growing increase of the poverty gap along with revolutionary electronic communications and the hope held out by the new transnational social and political movements. These trends offer both possibilities and problems for public health. Concerned to discuss these trends in greater detail with a wide range of organizations involved in public health - government, policy makers, civil society groups, industry, community health, medical and research institutions and networks - the World Health Organisation, the Society for International Development and the Rockefeller Foundation called a meeting to debate the possible policy responses.
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March 1998, Volume 41, Number 1
Consumption, Civil Action and Sustainable Development
(excerpts translated into French, Italian, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu)
In this issue we look at civil action around consumption as a driving force for sustainable development. The contributors explore the responses by citizens in the North and South to the shifts in consumption patterns. By looking at civil action within the realm of consumption, the articles argue how civil action can influence the key economic drivers and ultimately push for a political agenda that puts in place social justice, environmental sustainability and improved quality of life for all.
June 1998, Volume 41, Number 2
Globalism and the Politics of Place
This issue asks us to set aside some of our assumptions of globalization, to pause and think the question of place -about our relation as subjects and intermediaries in our immediate environment, community and politics. A notion of 'place' has always been inherent in the development experience although as the articles indicate, in the very practice of development, anything particular to place was inherently rendered irrelevant in order to apply standardized 'solutions' (like technological packages) to standardized 'problems' (illiteracy, poor health, malnutrition, poor farming techniques, etc.). This marginalization of the specificity of place has emerged alongside the other key concept: globalism. We argue that it is not a matter of looking at local and global as opposites, in juxtaposition to each other, but rather to see how place is embedded in real and concrete sites within transnational models of capital and meaning. Development and the globalization of the economy have been instrumental in the creation of a 'global village' or a globalism that is creating the image of an increasingly placeless world with an ever-increasing homogenization of localities at a global scale.
September 1998, Volume 41, Number 3
Sustainable Livelihoods: Communities Negotiating for Political Change
This issue devoted to sustainable livelihoods focuses on the activities of marginalized communities in maintaining their livelihoods and their innovative responses to globalization at the level of place. Once again, we see how useful it is to break down the polarities of 'local' and 'global' and instead take up the concept of place. The articles taken from experiences around the world present not the world of 'developing countries' in the struggle towards economic growth and progress but identifiable and specific cultures, economies and ecologies connected to everyday life that are resisting and adapting to current adverse economic and social changes.
December 1998, Volume 41, Number 4
Europe and Africa: The Search for a New Partnership
In this issue we focus on the 'special' relationship between Africa and Europe as the old colonial ties are broken with the current rethinking of market and state relations, the impact of transnational trade world wide and the 'renaissance' of civil society and democracy in the continent of Africa.
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March 1997, Volume 40, Number 1
Forty Years in Development: The Search for Social Justice
(excerpts translated into French, Italian, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Spanish, Urdu)
The aim of this journal issue, commemorating 40 years of the Society for International Development's contribution to the founding, shaping and playing out of development in its myriad forms, is to burrow deep into the thinking, rhetoric and claims of development as a worldview. We invite readers to revisit the thoughts of some of the well-known shapers of development, along with the well-known questioners of the purpose of economic development. We can see in this selection of articles the emergence of what we can loosely call a development community, its internal evolution and the shaping of a community identity and discourse drawn together even if marked by multiple and divergent positions.
June 1997, Volume 40, Number 2
Globalization: Opening Up Spaces for Civic Engagement
This issue is not about whether globalization is good or bad. It is clear that there are increasing numbers of losers - in the South and the North - and the point is not to judge, but to understand the situation and move on. The questions to be asked are: what can we do about this? How can we become engaged and in the process, find new allies?
September 1997, Volume 40, Number 3
Globalization: New institutions, New Partnerships, New Lives
This issue explores the failure of the market, state, financial institutions and transnational companies to represent and be accountable to civil society. It introduces some of the innovative responses to globalization by civil society groups and networks starting from the clearly uncomfortable fit between the claims of traditional political institutions to represent citizens and the proliferation of civil society groups, their outreach and creative energy, networking and visions for change.
December 1997, Volume 40, Number 4
A Global Crisis of Imagination: Responses from Santiago
This issue focusing on globalization is devoted to some of the papers given at the SID 22nd World Conference held in Santiago de Compostela in May 1997. The articles give a viewpoint of globalization from angles not often heard in the international development debate. They tell of the impact of global activities on local experiences and make us realize that globalization is not an abstract process happening somewhere 'over there' but integral to the political process people in their own communities are making.
