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Volume 38, issue 12, 2017

Corrigendum pp. (iii)-(iii)

The Editors

Post-development 25 years after pp. 2547-2558

Aram Ziai

Post-Development @ 25: on ‘being stuck’ and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise pp. 2559-2572

Gustavo Esteva and Arturo Escobar

The Sustainable Development Goals and: varieties of Post-Development? pp. 2573-2587

Wolfgang Sachs

The Post-Development Dictionary agenda: paths to the pluriverse pp. 2588-2599

Federico Demaria and Ashish Kothari

Living Well: ideas for reinventing the future pp. 2600-2616

Alberto Acosta

Reflecting the Post-Development gaze: the degrowth debate in Germany pp. 2617-2633

Daniel Bendix

Fossil-fuelled development and the legacy of Post-Development theory in twenty-first century Africa pp. 2634-2649

Stefan Andreasson

Colonised minds? Post-development theory and the desirability of development in Africa pp. 2650-2663

Sally Matthews

Cold critique, faint passion, bleak future: Post-Development’s surrender to global capitalism pp. 2664-2683

Ilan Kapoor

Worlds beyond the political? Post-development approaches in practices of transnational solidarity activism pp. 2684-2702

Kalpana Wilson

The making and unmaking of development: using Post-Development as a tool in teaching development studies pp. 2703-2718

Wendy Harcourt

‘I am not a Post-Developmentalist, but…’ The influence of Post-Development on development studies pp. 2719-2734

Aram Ziai

Volume 38, issue 11, 2017

Whatever happened to the idea of imperialism? pp. 2387-2395

John Narayan and Leon Sealey-Huggins

The second sight of racialised outsiders in the imperialist core pp. 2396-2410

Satnam Virdee

Libya and Europe: imperialism, crisis and migration pp. 2411-2427

Lucia Pradella and Sahar Taghdisi Rad

Imperialism, colonialism and sovereignty in the (post)colony: India and Kashmir pp. 2428-2443

Goldie Osuri

‘1.5°C to stay alive’: climate change, imperialism and justice for the Caribbean pp. 2444-2463

Leon Sealey-Huggins

Neo-imperialism in solidarity organisations’ public discourses: collective action frames, resources and audiences pp. 2464-2481

Eugene Nulman

The wages of whiteness in the absence of wages: racial capitalism, reactionary intercommunalism and the rise of Trumpism pp. 2482-2500

John Narayan

Beyond Pan-Africanism: Garveyism, Malcolm X and the end of the colonial nation state pp. 2501-2516

Kehinde Andrews

The deep, historical roots of Cuban anti-imperialism pp. 2517-2535

Ernesto Domínguez López and Helen Yaffe

The time of the Popular Front pp. 2536-2545

Vijay Prashad

Volume 38, issue 10, 2017

Political leadership and ‘non-traditional’ development cooperation pp. 2171-2186

Emma Mawdsley, Sung-Mi Kim and Danilo Marcondes

Development engineering meets development studies pp. 2187-2207

Peter Robbins, Andrew Watkins, David Wield and Gordon Wilson

Is global inequality getting better or worse? A critique of the World Bank’s convergence narrative pp. 2208-2222

Jason Hickel

: 40 years on pp. 2223-2241

Christopher May

New media and governance in conflict pp. 2242-2257

Gianluca Iazzolino and Nicole Stremlau

The ‘philanthropic’ gene: biocapital and the new green revolution in Africa pp. 2258-2275

Jacqueline A. Ignatova

Media development in Syria: the Janus-faced nature of foreign aid assistance pp. 2276-2294

Billie Jeanne Brownlee

A look inside an emerging nuclear supplier. Advocacy coalitions and change in Argentine foreign nuclear policy pp. 2295-2311

Bernabé H. Malacalza

Why African countries are interested in building agricultural partnerships with China: lessons from Rwanda and Uganda pp. 2312-2329

Isaac Lawther

China’s foreign aid system: structure, agencies, and identities pp. 2330-2346

Denghua Zhang and Graeme Smith

When revolutionaries grow old: the Museveni babies and the slow death of the liberation pp. 2347-2366

Anna Reuss and Kristof Titeca

Migration diplomacy in the Global South: cooperation, coercion and issue linkage in Gaddafi’s Libya pp. 2367-2385

Gerasimos Tsourapas

Volume 38, issue 9, 2017

Sexual violence in armed conflicts: research progress and remaining gaps pp. 1935-1951

Carlo Koos

Celebrity-led development organisations: the legitimating function of elite engagement pp. 1952-1972

Alexandra Cosima Budabin, Louise Mubanda Rasmussen and Lisa Ann Richey

Precipitating state failure: do civil wars and violent non-state actors create failed states? pp. 1973-1989

Huseyn Aliyev

Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development pp. 1990-2008

Elise Klein and China Mills

Rethinking development and peacebuilding in non-secular contexts: a postsecular alternative in Mindanao pp. 2009-2026

Lindsey K. Horner

Why ‘Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill’? Rethinking the ‘coherent’ state pp. 2027-2044

Emma Paszat

New light on the Samora Machel assassination: ‘I realized that it was no accident’ pp. 2045-2065

Daniel L. Douek

‘East’ and ‘West’ in contemporary Turkey: threads of a new universalism pp. 2066-2081

Katerina Dalacoura

Enter the dragon: the ecological disorganisation of Chinese capital in Africa pp. 2082-2096

Mwenda Kailemia

The ambiguity of US foreign policy towards Africa pp. 2097-2112

Gorm Rye Olsen

European Union anti-piracy initiatives in the Horn of Africa: linking land-based counter-piracy with maritime security and regional development pp. 2113-2128

Neil Winn and Alexandra Lewis

The effectiveness of rural versus urban nonprofit organisations in the Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 2129-2142

Elena Urquia-Grande, Antti Rautiainen and Raquel Pérez-Estébanez

Power relations? What power relations? The de-politicising conceptualisation of development of the UNDP pp. 2143-2158

Juan Telleria

‘State of exception’ or ‘state in exile’? The fallacy of appropriating Agamben on Palestinian refugee camps pp. 2159-2170

Dag Tuastad

Volume 38, issue 8, 2017

The Syrian chemical weapons disarmament process in context: narratives of coercion, consent, and everything in between pp. 1691-1709

Karim Makdisi and Coralie Pison Hindawi

Will blockchain emerge as a tool to break the poverty chain in the Global South? pp. 1710-1732

Nir Kshetri

Deciphering UN development policies: from the modernisation paradigm to the human development approach? pp. 1733-1752

Panayotis M. Protopsaltis

The birth and development of the language of global development in light of trends in global population, international politics, economics and globalisation pp. 1753-1766

Marcin Wojciech Solarz

Regions that matter: the Arab–South American interregional space pp. 1767-1781

Silvia Ferabolli

Sovereignty, bare life and the Arab uprisings pp. 1782-1799

Simon Mabon

Post-Islamism and fields of contention after the Arab Spring: feminism, Salafism and the revolutionary youth pp. 1800-1815

Markus Holdo

National ownership and donor involvement: an aid paradox illustrated by the case of Rwanda pp. 1816-1830

Malin Hasselskog, Peter J. Mugume, Eric Ndushabandi and Isabell Schierenbeck

The global governance of informal economies: the International Labour Organization in East Africa pp. 1831-1846

Nick Bernards

Civil society knowledge networks: how international development institutions reshape the geography of knowledge pp. 1847-1872

E. Fouksman

PATH: pioneering innovation for global health at the public–private interface pp. 1873-1893

Michael Stevenson

The internal and external constraints on foreign policy in India: exploring culture and ethnic sensitivities pp. 1894-1908

Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt

Global South rhetoric in India’s policy projection pp. 1909-1920

Shantanu Chakrabarti

India and the responsibility to protect pp. 1921-1934

Bjørn Møller

Volume 38, issue 7, 2017

From failed states to fragile cities: redefining spaces of humanitarian practice pp. 1437-1453

Joao Pontes Nogueira

Geography and the outcomes of civil resistance and civil war pp. 1454-1472

Charles Butcher

Fairtrade labour certification: the contested incorporation of plantations and workers pp. 1473-1492

Laura T. Raynolds

One in 20: the G20, middle powers and global governance reform pp. 1493-1510

Christian Downie

An auto-critique of TWAIL’s historical fallacy: sketching an alternative manifesto pp. 1511-1530

S. G. Sreejith

Securitisation of research: fieldwork under new restrictions in Darfur and Mali pp. 1531-1550

Mateja Peter and Francesco Strazzari

Unravelling clientelism in the Zambian electoral campaigns pp. 1551-1565

John Bwalya

The ‘green militarisation’ of development aid: the European Commission and the Virunga National Park, DR Congo pp. 1566-1582

Esther Marijnen

Post-neoliberalism in Latin America: a conceptual review pp. 1583-1602

Arne Ruckert, Laura Macdonald and Kristina R. Proulx

governance in Bolivia: chimera or attainable utopia? pp. 1603-1618

Eija Maria Ranta

Patriarchal unions = weaker unions? Industrial relations in the Asian garment industry pp. 1619-1638

Alice Evans

The deep marketisation of development in Bangladesh pp. 1639-1654

Christoph Neusiedl

Culturalism and the rise of the Islamic State: faith, sectarianism and violence pp. 1655-1673

Tim Jacoby

White innocence in the Black Mediterranean: hospitality and the erasure of history pp. 1674-1689

Ida Danewid

Volume 38, issue 6, 2017

Corrigendum pp. (1437)-(1437)

The Editors

Towards UN counter-terrorism operations? pp. 1215-1231

John Karlsrud

Crossing borders in North America after 9/11: ‘regular’ travellers’ narratives of securitisations and contestations pp. 1232-1248

Marianne H. Marchand

Political economy, poverty, and polycentrism in the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for Climate Change Adaptation pp. 1249-1271

Benjamin K. Sovacool, May Tan-Mullins, David Ockwell and Peter Newell

Mediating representations of poverty and development: a help or a hindrance? pp. 1272-1290

Natasha Keenaghan and Kathy Reilly

Measuring state fragility: a review of the theoretical groundings of existing approaches pp. 1291-1309

Ines A. Ferreira

Does local ownership bring about effectiveness? The case of a transnational advocacy network pp. 1310-1326

Bodille Arensman, Margit van Wessel and Dorothea Hilhorst

From extractivism towards: mining policy as an indicator of a new development paradigm prioritising the environment pp. 1327-1349

Robin Broad and Julia Fischer-Mackey

Rethinking Chile’s ‘Chicago Boys’: neoliberal technocrats or revolutionary vanguard? pp. 1350-1365

Timothy David Clark

Hedonists and husbands: piracy narratives, gender demands, and local political economic realities in Somalia pp. 1366-1380

Brittany Gilmer

Negotiating justice: legal pluralism and gender-based violence in Liberia pp. 1381-1398

Shai André Divon and Morten Bøås

Virtuous power Turkey in sub-Saharan Africa: the ‘Neo-Ottoman’ challenge to the European Union pp. 1399-1414

Mark Langan

Optimised or compromised? United Kingdom support to reforming security sector governance in post-war Nepal pp. 1415-1436

Safal Ghimire

Volume 38, issue 5, 2017

New mechanisms of participation in extractive governance: between technologies of governance and resistance work pp. 1043-1057

Esben Leifsen, Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Maria A. Guzmán-Gallegos and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Who controls the territory and the resources? Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as a contested human rights practice in Bolivia pp. 1058-1074

Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Weaving hope in ancestral black territories in Colombia: the reach and limitations of free, prior, and informed consultation and consent pp. 1075-1091

Marilyn Machado, David López Matta, María Mercedes Campo, Arturo Escobar and Viviane Weitzner

Claiming prior consultation, monitoring environmental impact: counterwork by the use of formal instruments of participatory governance in Ecuador’s emerging mining sector pp. 1092-1109

Esben Leifsen, Luis Sánchez-Vázquez and Maleny Gabriela Reyes

Between oil contamination and consultation: constrained spaces of influence in Northern Peruvian Amazonia pp. 1110-1127

María A. Guzmán-Gallegos

A vote to derail extraction: popular consultation and resource sovereignty in Tolima, Colombia pp. 1128-1145

John-Andrew McNeish

The struggles surrounding ecological and economic zoning in Peru pp. 1146-1163

Maria-Therese Gustafsson

The politics of planning: assessing the impacts of mining on Sami lands pp. 1164-1180

Rebecca Lawrence and Rasmus Kløcker Larsen

Shaping projects, shaping impacts: community-controlled impact assessments and negotiated agreements pp. 1181-1197

Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh

‘Nosotros Somos Estado’: contested legalities in decision-making about extractives affecting ancestral territories in Colombia pp. 1198-1214

Viviane Weitzner

Volume 38, issue 4, 2017

State effects and the effects of state building: institution building and the formation of state-centred societies pp. 771-786

Stein Sundstøl Eriksen

Engendering social and environmental safeguards in REDD+: lessons from feminist and development research pp. 787-804

Beth A. Bee and Bimbika Sijapati Basnett

Are the LDCs really the world’s least developed countries? pp. 805-821

Marcin Wojciech Solarz and Małgorzata Wojtaszczyk

Course corrections and failed rationales: how comparative advantage and debt are used to legitimise austerity in Africa and Latin America pp. 822-843

Cory Blad, Samuel Oloruntoba and Jon Shefner

‘New’ nations: resource-based development imaginaries in Ghana and Ecuador pp. 844-861

John Childs and Julie Hearn

Planet of the Australians: Indigenous athletes and Australian Football’s sports diplomacy pp. 862-881

Simon Philpott

Negotiating interference: US democracy promotion, Bolivia and the tale of a failed agreement pp. 882-899

Jonas Wolff

Framing a fiscal/cultural micro-encounter: value added tax meets calypso in Dominica pp. 900-917

David Hirschmann

Rents, knowledge and neo-structuralism: transforming the productive matrix in Ecuador pp. 918-938

Thomas F. Purcell, Nora Fernandez and Estefania Martinez

Strategic bureaucracies: transnational funding and mundane practices of Ghanaian local governments pp. 939-955

Matthew Sabbi

‘Sexurity’ and its effects in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pp. 956-979

Charlotte Mertens and Maree Pardy

Iran and Turkey: not quite enemies but less than friends pp. 980-995

Shahram Akbarzadeh and James Barry

Why developing countries are just spectators in the ‘Gold War’: the case of Lebanon at the Olympic Games pp. 996-1011

Danyel Reiche

The past in the present: time and narrative of Balkan wars in media industry and international politics pp. 1012-1042

Enika Abazi and Albert Doja

Volume 38, issue 3, 2017

Inhuman development? Technics as enframing or poiesis? pp. 525-543

Trevor Parfitt

Space, discourse and environmental peacebuilding pp. 544-562

Tobias Ide

Pathological counterinsurgency: the failure of imposing legitimacy in El Salvador, Afghanistan, and Iraq pp. 563-579

Samuel R. Greene

Governance and disorder: neoliberalism and violent change in Jamaica pp. 580-603

Michelle A. Munroe and Damion K. Blake

NGO partnerships in Haiti: clashes of discourse and reality pp. 604-620

Julia Maria Schöneberg

Unpacking the world cultural toolkit in socialist Venezuela: national sovereignty, human rights and anti-NGO legislation pp. 621-635

Timothy M. Gill

Good governance as a foundation for sustainable human development in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 636-654

Theodore J. Davis

Maturing Sino–Africa relations pp. 655-677

Hany Besada and Ben O’Bright

Africa and the export of China’s clean energy revolution pp. 678-697

Wei Shen and Marcus Power

Large-scale land acquisitions, state authority and indigenous local communities: insights from Ethiopia pp. 698-716

Tsegaye Moreda

Human rights and Nubian mobilisation in Egypt: towards recognition of indigeneity pp. 717-733

Maja Janmyr

Why do Indonesian politicians promote laws? An analytic framework for Muslim-majority democracies pp. 734-752

Elizabeth Pisani and Michael Buehler

Following the donor-designed path to Mozambique’s US$2.2 billion secret debt deal pp. 753-770

Joseph Hanlon

Volume 38, issue 2, 2017

Drones and the uninsurable security subjects pp. 253-269

André Barrinha and Sarah da Mota

Decolonising online development studies? Emancipatory aspirations and critical reflections – a case study pp. 270-290

Samuel Spiegel, Hazel Gray, Barbara Bompani, Kevin Bardosh and James Smith

International peace building and the emerging inclusivity norm pp. 291-310

Timothy Donais and Erin McCandless

The economics of the Internet of Things in the Global South pp. 311-339

Nir Kshetri

The social–economic impact of shale gas extraction: a global perspective pp. 340-355

Adrian Paylor

Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: the ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony pp. 356-378

Matthew Louis Bishop, Peter Clegg and Rosemarijn Hoefte

Understanding contested women’s rights in development: the Latin American campaign for the humanisation of birth and the challenge of midwifery in Mexico pp. 379-396

Hanna Laako

Agriculture in and beyond the Haitian catastrophe pp. 397-413

Marylynn Steckley and Tony Weis

From Third World internationalism to ‘the internationals’: the transformation of solidarity with Palestine pp. 414-435

Linda Tabar

The Freedom Charter: the contested South African land issue pp. 436-449

Sibonginkosi Mazibuko

The study of child soldiering: issues and consequences for DDR implementation pp. 450-466

Roos Haer

A failure of governmentality: why Transparency International underestimated corruption in Ben Ali’s Tunisia pp. 467-482

Hannes Baumann

Resilience and disaster risk reduction: reclassifying diversity and national identity in post-earthquake Nepal pp. 483-504

Iain Watson

Peripheral modernity and anti-colonial nationalism in Java: economies of race and gender in the constitution of the Indonesian national teleology pp. 505-523

Alina Sajed

Volume 38, issue 1, 2017

Decolonising International Relations? pp. 1-15

Zeynep Gulsah Capan

Unheard voices: a critical discourse analysis of the Millennium Development Goals’ evolution into the Sustainable Development Goals pp. 16-41

Jane Briant Carant

What/who is still missing in International Relations scholarship? Situating Africa as an agent in IR theorising pp. 42-60

Isaac Odoom and Nathan Andrews

A dialogic approach to understanding regime conflicts: the case of the development agenda pp. 61-83

Valbona Muzaka

China’s impact on the landscape of African International Relations: implications for dependency theory pp. 84-96

Robert Mason

Who owns the right to food? Interlegality and competing interests in agricultural modernisation in Papua, Indonesia pp. 97-116

Irene I. Hadiprayitno

People with disabilities working in the disability sector in Timor Leste: a study of ‘lived experience’ using PhotoVoice pp. 117-133

Jane Shamrock, Natalie Smith, Marion Gray, Melainie Cameron and Florin Oprescu

Mediating multiple accountabilities: variation in formal and perceived accountability among international and domestic actors in the health sector in Peru pp. 134-148

Anne L. Buffardi

This time it’s different: lithium extraction, cultural politics and development in Bolivia pp. 149-168

Anna C. Revette

Building ties across the Green Line: the Palestinian 15 March youth movement in Israel and occupied Palestinian territory in 2011 pp. 169-184

Guy Burton

Policing neoliberalism in Egypt: the continuing rise of the ‘securocratic’ state pp. 185-202

Maha Abdelrahman

Civil society in Mozambique: NGOs, religion, politics and witchcraft pp. 203-218

Tanja Kleibl and Ronaldo Munck

Situating soldiers’ demands: mutinies and protests in Burkina Faso pp. 219-234

Maggie Dwyer

Beyond the nation: global democratisation in Uganda and the politics of dispensation pp. 235-251

Sabina S. Singh