Development and Change Special Issues

Contributors analyze the care economy in the developing world, at a moment when existing systems are under strain and new ideas are coming into focus. Offers the first global, regionally diverse study of the "invisible economy" of care, including case studies from diverse regional contexts of Africa, Asia and Latin America Frames the debate on care and highlights policy experimentation and ideas currently in flux Includes new research and data on developing countries, showing how, where care options for the socially disadvantaged are limited, failing to socialize the costs of care exacerbates existing inequalities Comes at a moment when, if not yet marked by a generalized care crisis, the world's existing systems are under strain and in need of rethinking Features introductory chapters that set out the conceptual framework and findings on individual country studies, and a concluding chapter that draws out the transnational dimensions of care

“Rule and Rupture-State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship” examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. • Combines the latest theory on property rights and citizenship with extensive fieldwork to provide a more complex, nuanced assessment of political states commonly viewed as "weak," "fragile," and "failed" • Contains ten case studies taken from post-colonial settings around the world, including Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, and Bolivia • Characterizes the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmented • Brings together exciting insights from a global group of scholars in the fields of political science, development studies, and geography

This collection of essays in “Governing Global Land Deals” provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance. • Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governance • Offers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of global land acquisitions • Illuminates both the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play in global land deals • Provides new empirical data on the different actors involved in contemporary land deals occurring across the globe and focuses on the specific institutional, political, and economic contexts in which they are acting

Transition and Justice examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful 'new beginnings' were declared after periods of violence and where transitional justice institutions helped define justice and the new socio-political order. • Offers a new perspective on transition and justice in Africa transcending the institutional limits of transitional justice • Covers a wide range of situations, and presents a broad range of sites where past injustices are addressed • Examines cases where peaceful 'new beginnings' have been declared after periods of violence • Addresses fundamental questions about transitions and justice in societies characterized by a high degree of external involvement and internal fragmentation

“Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa” provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa. • Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in contemporary Africa • Conceptualizes who negotiates statehood (the actors, resources and repertoires), where these negotiation processes take place, and what these processes are all about • Includes a collections of essays that provides empirical and analytical insights into these processes in eight different country studies in Africa • Critically reflects on the negotiability of statehood in Africa