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Edited By: Ashwani Saith, Murat Arsel, Kees Biekart, Amrita Chhachhi, Bridget O'Laughlin and Servaas Storm
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Development and Change publishes regular special issues on selected themes. Development and Change and Wiley-Blackwell collaborate to produce these theme issues as a series of books, with the aim of bringing these pertinent resources to a wider audience.
Recent titles from the series include:
Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa
Edited by Tobias Hagmann and Didier Peclard
The Politics of Possession: Property, Authority, and Access to Natural resources
Edited by Thomas Sikor and Christian Lund
Gender Myths and Feminist Fables: The Struggle for Interpretive Power in Gender and Development
Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead
Twilight Institutions
Edited by Christian Lund
China’s Limits to Growth
Edited by Peter Ho and Eduard B. Vermeer.
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