Eris D. Schoburgh & John Martin 
Developmental Local Governance 
A Critical Discourse in ‘Alternative Development’

The primary purpose of this edited collection is to evaluate critically the relationship between local government and national economic development. It focuses on how the relationship between local government and development is structured, and the specific institutional arrangements at national and subnational levels that might facilitate local government’s assumption of the role of development agent. In light of the contradictory outcomes of development and implied experimentation with new modalities, post-development discourse provides a useful explanatory framework for the book. Schoburgh, Martin and Gatchair’s central argument is that the pursuit of national developmental goals is given a sustainable foundation when development planning and strategies take into account elements that have the potential to determine the rate of social transformation. Their emphasis on localism establishes a clear link between local government and local economic development in the context of developing countries.

About the author

Eris D. Schoburgh, University of the West Indies, Jamaica John Martin, La Trobe University, Australia Sonia Gatchair, University of the West Indies, Jamaica Bhaskar Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India Paul Hildreth, Visiting Policy Fellow, University of Salford, UK P. S. Reddy, University Of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Muhammad Kabir ISA, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria Akeeta Ali, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Rebecca Gookool, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Roger Hosein, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Zenaida Moya, IMC Integral Management Consultancy, Belize