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{"title":"The Green Energy Transition and Peripheral City Development in China: Towards a Local Eco-developmental State","authors":"Victor Kaiyuan Lin,&nbsp;Jenn-Hwan Wang","doi":"10.1111/dech.12765","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12765","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The green energy transition is recognized for its inherent environmental contributions. This article illustrates how it can also reshape the economic landscape and create the conditions for a peripheral city to develop. Drawing on the politics of accelerating low-carbon transition and focusing on the role that local governments play in this process, the authors illustrate how the green energy transition has commercialized wind and solar resources and constructed a new resource control system in northwest China. The Gobi Desert has extensive wind and solar energy resources; having the authority to grant access to preferential sites to exploit these resources empowers local governments to combine their interests with those of other stakeholders to build local capacity and achieve developmental goals. Governments are also able to manipulate renewable energy curtailments to promote infrastructure investment, technological progress, and the grid-parity model. The green energy transition can therefore play a role in upgrading industrial structures, alleviating local poverty, narrowing regional development gaps, and contributing to national environmental improvement. This study provides a theoretical contribution to our understanding of how the local eco-developmental state configures new energy spaces and restructures local governance, and argues that green industrial policies are sometimes actively nurtured by local rather than central governments.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 3","pages":"514-542"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47499802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agency and Structure in Militarized Conservation and Armed Mobilization: Evidence from Eastern DRC's Kahuzi-Biega National Park","authors":"Fergus O'Leary Simpson,&nbsp;Lorenzo Pellegrini","doi":"10.1111/dech.12764","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12764","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ongoing debates in conservation studies stress the dire consequences of ‘fortress’ and ‘militarized’ conservation at violent frontiers. Presenting evidence from Kahuzi-Biega National Park in war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this article shows how the park has become a focal point for armed insurgent groups in the region. Although fortress conservation has contributed to one major incident of violent resistance in recent years, it plays only a marginal role in defining the structures shaping the actions of armed groups. These structures — some of which are reproduced and (occasionally) reshaped by armed groups — include the legacies of poverty and insecurity, the geographical features of the park and the presence of illicit trading networks. This perspective emerges only when we zoom out from the park to place it within the context of the history and broader political economy of the DRC. On the one hand, these dynamics severely constrain the agency of conservation organizations, leaving militarized conservation as the only feasible form of enforcement. This approach at times generates violent outcomes for certain groups of people and produces a resource-rich, isolated terrain which provides a staging ground for broader conflicts to play out. On the other hand, militarized conservation could provide basic law and order at the forest's edge. Ultimately, therefore, militarized conservation plays an ambivalent role vis-à-vis security and stability.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 3","pages":"601-640"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12764","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42880217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Formalization and its Discontents: Conceptual Fallacies and Ways Forward","authors":"Max Gallien,&nbsp;Vanessa van den Boogaard","doi":"10.1111/dech.12768","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12768","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The concept of formalization has long underpinned policy interventions and measures intended to connect informal entities with state institutions or formal economic structures. However, despite the policy enthusiasm, the outcomes of formalization policies have frequently been disappointing. This article argues that this disconnect lies in the concept of formalization itself and that common approaches to formalization are often rooted in three conceptual fallacies: a binary distinction between formal and informal economic actors, a lack of appreciation for the diversity of informal economic actors and the idea that ‘becoming’ formal necessarily spurs positive externalities. These conceptual confusions pay insufficient attention to contextual complexity and the political and social dynamics that shape informality in a given context and they are frequently rooted in the practicalities and power structures that shape knowledge creation in this area. This article demonstrates this through case studies of tax registration and property titling. Thus, it argues for a new research agenda on formalization that challenges both its conventional conceptual foundations and the practices of research that engage with it.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 3","pages":"490-513"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46964968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agrarian Questions: New Paradigms in a Changing World","authors":"Arindam Banerjee","doi":"10.1111/dech.12766","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 3","pages":"671-687"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49532048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Facing the Future: The Legacies of Post-Neoliberalism in Latin America","authors":"Jean Grugel,&nbsp;Pia Riggirozzi","doi":"10.1111/dech.12508","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12508","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This virtual issue reviews the post-neoliberalism literature published in <i>Development and Change</i> between 2012 and 2018. It reflects on recent and ongoing, multiple experiences of resistance to speculative, extractive, inequitable and unsustainable development and the demands for alternatives that emerged in Latin America. The argument is developed through an analysis of the 18 most relevant articles published in this journal, that make a major contribution to three key interrelated debates, namely: the meaning and policies associated with post-neoliberalism; challenges of citizenship and democracy; and the sustainability agenda. Collectively, the selected articles provide a detailed and much-needed discussion about the key achievements, limitations and legacies of post-neoliberalism.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 2","pages":"e1-e17"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48427860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Far Does the Diverse Economies Approach Take Us?","authors":"Georgina M. Gómez","doi":"10.1111/dech.12762","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12762","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Julie and Katherine Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombroski (eds), <i>The Handbook of Diverse Economies</i>. Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2020. 546 pp. £ 199.80 hardback</b>.</p><p>There is a long-standing tradition of thought on human-centred and communitarian economies. It connects to a search for utopias (no lands) and udetopias (neverlands) which has accelerated with the advent of capitalism and the obsession with capital accumulation that gave the latter system its name. Intellectuals like Charles Fourier, Silvio Gesell, François Marie, Karl Marx, Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon were pioneers in developing social, economic and political alternatives to capitalism. They engaged with the original 16th century collectivist and utopian socialism of Sir Thomas More, which, as French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (<span>1998</span>: 125) observed, was ‘often discredited, dismissed and ridiculed in the name of economic realism’. Drawing on this tradition, the scholarly couple Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham added the diverse economies (DE) approach three decades ago.1 Since then, it has developed into a fully-fledged research programme among scholars and a vision of social transformation among activists. The latest arrival in their scientific production <i>The Handbook of Diverse Economies</i>, is edited by J.K. Gibson-Graham and Kelly Dombroski, and the subject of this critical review.</p><p>Through capturing and valorizing the variety of economic, social and political spaces that currently proliferate in the interstices of the capitalist system, the diverse economies approach has gained considerable traction. These spaces, DE authors and followers would emphasize, are not an exercise of the imagination occurring in the no lands and neverlands of utopianism, but tangible and true sources of global hope. They are existing spaces which evade capitalism or shape resistance to it, and mobilize collectives. Underlining that building alternatives to capitalism is feasible as it is ongoing, <i>The Handbook of Diverse Economies</i> adds cases, findings and reflections, and invites analysis of the way scholars understand and write about economic alternatives.</p><p>However, as in previous works (see Gibson-Graham, <span>1996, 2008</span>), engagement with academics outside feminist, post-structural and post-development circles remains pending in this last book. While this new volume refines the contrast with neoliberal politics and the ‘crushing uniformity of mainstream circuits of value’ (Fuller et al., <span>2016</span>: xxiv), it does not meet the need to engage with other ways of theorizing alternatives to overcome the relatively marginal position of diverse economies within the dominant capitalist system. Some of the older critiques of the DE approach are explicitly addressed, but the general lack of receptiveness to criticism limits the influence of the research programme beyond the circles of supporters and partisan advocates","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 2","pages":"442-460"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12762","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45699404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’ Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post-aid World","authors":"Alin Kadfak,&nbsp;Miriam Wilhelm,&nbsp;Patrik Oskarsson","doi":"10.1111/dech.12761","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12761","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how domestic NGOs responded to new opportunities that emerged during the 2015–2020 ‘modern slavery’ labour reforms in Thailand's seafood sector. The analysis takes place against the background of civil society transitions in a ‘post-aid’ setting. Like NGOs in other middle-income countries, the Thai NGO sector has struggled to remain relevant and financially viable in recent decades, as international donors have withdrawn from countries with steadily declining poverty rates. As a result of the ‘developmental successes’ of Thailand, the NGO sector needed to rethink its strategies. Examining the modern slavery labour reform process provides an opportunity to understand the strategic choices available to NGOs in the face of several important phenomena: the emergence of new actors such as international philanthropic donors; the growing influence of the private sector in governance matters; and the need for NGOs to balance multiple strategic alliances. The article draws on in-depth interviews to explore narratives of Thai labour NGO adjustments during the period of the modern slavery reform. The study contributes to a better understanding of how NGOs in post-aid countries transition and adapt to changing circumstances by embracing new roles as ‘sub-contractors’ for emerging global philanthropic donors and as ‘partners’ of private corporations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 3","pages":"570-600"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12761","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47098900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theorizing Power in Community Economies: A Women's Cooperative in Northern Kurdistan","authors":"Kaner Atakan Turker","doi":"10.1111/dech.12760","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12760","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Under the Democratic Autonomy project, Turkey's Kurdish Movement has pursued self-governance since the mid-2000s and promoted cooperatives and communal modes of production across Northern Kurdistan. Drawing upon the engagement of diverse and community economies studies with assemblage thinking, this article utilizes assemblage thinking to expand our understanding of power dynamics in community economies, and to reveal the power-led processes involved in building and maintaining community economies. The article focuses on the case of a women's cooperative spearheaded by the Kurdish Movement, which managed to circumvent state oppression and stay in business, despite the turmoil that erupted in Northern Kurdistan after the collapse of peace negotiations between the Turkish state and the Kurdish Movement in 2015.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 2","pages":"355-377"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42134517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In Cold Blood at Cambridge","authors":"James K. Galbraith","doi":"10.1111/dech.12759","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 2","pages":"461-463"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48926626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Compelled to Compete: Rendering Climate Change Vulnerability Investable","authors":"Kimberley Anh Thomas","doi":"10.1111/dech.12756","DOIUrl":"10.1111/dech.12756","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The imperative for vulnerable populations to adapt to greater environmental variability is increasing in lockstep with the onset of wide-ranging climate change impacts. However, while critical adaptation research emphasizes the necessity of addressing the underlying drivers of vulnerability to climate change, mainstream approaches to adaptation stress economic growth as a prerequisite for climate responses. Accordingly, capital-intensive adaptation measures promote competitiveness to spur economic growth in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, where more than 18 million people face environmental hazards such as seawater intrusion, flood, drought and cyclones. This study evaluates competitiveness as a mandate for effective climate change adaptation. It finds that adaptation can advance either competition or vulnerability reduction, but it cannot logically or pragmatically pursue both.</p>","PeriodicalId":48194,"journal":{"name":"Development and Change","volume":"54 2","pages":"223-250"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dech.12756","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45438045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}