Critical Development Theory Reading List

Escobar, Arturo. 1996. Encountering Development. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Ch. 1, pp. 3-20.

Sachs, Wolfgang, ed. 1999. The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power. “Planning,” pp. 132-145. London: Zed Books.

Jarvela, Marja and Eva-Marita Rinne-Koistinen. 2005. “Purity and Dirt as Social Constructions: Environmental Health in an Urban Shantytown of Lagos.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 292: 375–388.