Recent scholarship has narrated the financialization of development, which Gabor (2021)
refers to as the Wall Street Consensus (WSC), whose purpose is to facilitate the investment …

Contemporary development policy portrays enhanced connectivity as the key to fostering
economic growth in lagging regions. This global policy consensus and consequent …

Abstract From the Thika Superhighway to the opening of the Expressway, Nairobi's recent
history has been marked by the rapid development of large-scale mobility infrastructures …

Infrastructure has never been a single thing, understood in a universal way. Yet, there has
long been a broad overarching orthodox approach in which 'experts' create replicable …

Many African governments have embraced centralised spatial planning and the construction
of large-scale connective infrastructure as a means to synergise industrialisation and …

Globally, and especially in Africa, twentieth-century dams were typically imagined through
high modernist ideology as the premier development project, but this ended with the decade …

This article argues that the amount and nature of disability representation in English and
Telugu news media directly and indirectly serves neo-liberal objectives. Disability …

This chapter highlights the contribution that genetic comparisons make to study diverse
experiences of precarious transformations along the sparse settlements that grow diffusely …

The perception of discrimination in psychology is dominated by racial criteria. Among Puerto
Ricans, such domination obscures discrimination on the basis of skin color. After …

In this chapter, we show how a consensus has emerged among policymakers that
infrastructure is a prerequisite for economic growth and development. The 'infrastructure …