type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article explores transformations of development practice after economic reforms, through an empirical account from Gujarat, western India — the country's poster-state of neoliberal reforms. It draws upon ethnographic fieldwork on the Hariyali watershed development...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article argues for the primacy of class relations and struggles as determinants of developmental processes and outcomes, emphasizing the evolving, dialectical nature of these relations. It does so by providing a case study of export horticulture in North-east Brazil. It...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article examines discourses about grassland degradation in China as expressed by herders, government officials and researchers, presenting findings from fieldwork in Xilinguole League, Inner Mongolia. Recognizing degradation discourse and grassland restoration policies...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article situates China's local policy experimentation in the broader context of policy experiments in decentralized political systems, through a case study which represents a local state response to China's transition to a market economy. With growing regional and...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Community and democratic participation are still an essential component of current mainstream development interventions. However, elite capture seriously undermines the outcomes of development projects. This article analyses the effects on (in)equality of the implementation...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article explores the interplay between violent protest and the making of laws in Uganda. It advances two main arguments. First, since multipartyism was restored in 2005, the Ugandan government has repeatedly drafted intentionally contentious new laws in part to provoke,...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Carbon sequestration in community forests presents a major challenge for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programme. This article uses a comparative analysis of the agricultural and forestry practices of indigenous peoples and settlers...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article analyses the 1949 film Daybreak in Udi and the influential ideas of its ‘star’ Edward Rowland Chadwick, a District Officer, with a view to understanding the legacy of the colonial policy of Community Development in Eastern Nigeria and Cameroon. The film,...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>As many new certification systems for commodities have been established over the past decade, scholars have devoted sustained attention to the ways that these multi-stakeholder governance initiatives have transformed the industries in which they were launched. With a few...</p>

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>This article explores an unexpected and overlooked consequence of the expansion of microcredit: how it interacts with migration patterns. Drawing on qualitative research in northwest Cambodia, this study explores the uses, meanings and implications of ‘migra-loans’ —...</p>