Department of International Development – PGT Reading List 

General  

• Our substack can be found here
• Listen to KCL's Global affairs podcast here

News / Blogs

• European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
  • Blog: Debating Development Research
  • Newsletter
• The Conversation blog series:
  • Jostein Hauge (2024): This year's Nobel Prize exposes economics' problem with colonialism
  • Rafeef Ziadah (2025): Donald Trump's vision for Gaza's future...
• The Guardian – Global Development
• The Independent – Global Development

Podcasts

• Macrodose
• Ones & Tooze on Political economy and current affairs
• The Dig
• Dr Ingrid Kvangraven, Podcast: Hierarchies of Development
• Dr Alice Evans, Rocking our priors
• Rethinking Development

Videos

• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat 2024 documentary (available on Amazon Prime)
• Forensic Architecture about migration in the Mediterranean (accessible here)

Books

• Chang, Ha‑Joon (2022) Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World. London: Penguin
• Dutt, D, Alves, C, Kesar, S, Kvangraven, I. (2025). Decolonising economics: an introduction. London, Polity.
• Getachew, Adom (2019) Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton: Princeton University Press
• Hanieh, A, Knox R. and Ziadah, R. (2025). Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. London, Verso.
• Kothari, Uma (ed.) (2005) A Radical History of Development Studies. London: Zed Books.
• Kothari, U, Klein, E. (2023). Advanced introduction to critical global development. Edward Elgar.
• Mann, G., & Wainwright, J. (2018). Climate Leviathan: A political theory of our planetary future. New York: Verso.
• Mohanty, Chandra Tapalde (2003) Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Robbins, P., Hintz, J. G., & Moore, S. A. (2022). Environment and society: a critical introduction. John Wiley & Sons.
• Khan, Themrise, Kanakulya Dickson and Maïka Sondarjee. 2021. White Saviorism in International Development: Theories, Practices and Lived Experiences. Quebec: Daraja Press.
• Saad‑Filho, A. (2021). Progressive policies for economic development: Economic diversification and social inclusion after climate change. London: Routledge.
• Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. New York, Pantheon Books.
• Sukariah, M. (2023). A Global Idea: Youth, City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World. Cornell Press.
• Veltmeyer, Henry and Bowles, Paul (eds.) (2021) The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies (2nd Edition). London: Routledge.

Development Studies MA

• Escobar, Arturo. Beyond the search for a paradigm? Post-development and beyond. Development, 2000, vol. 43, no 4, p. 11–14. (Beyond the Search for a Paradigm? Post-Development and beyond)
• Fanon, Frantz. The wretched of the earth. 1963.
• Ferguson, James (1994) The anti-politics machine: Development, depoliticization, and bureaucratic power in Lesotho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Harvey, David (2008) The right to the city. The City Reader, 6(1), 23-40. (David Harvey, The Right to the City, NLR 53, September–October 2008)
• Hickel, Jason (2017) The divide: A brief guide to global inequality and its solutions. London: Penguin Books.
• Mezzadra, Sandro, & Neilson, Brett (2013) Border as method, or, the multiplication of labor. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Nixon, Rob (2011) Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Pulido, Laura (2017) Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Environmental racism, racial capitalism and state-sanctioned violence. Progress in Human Geography, 41(4), 524-533.
• Rodney, Walter (1972) How Europe underdeveloped Africa. London: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications.
• Sassen, Saskia (2014) Expulsions: Brutality and complexity in the global economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Veltmeyer, H., & Bowles, P. (Eds.). (2022). The essential guide to critical development studies. London: Routledge.

Emerging Economies and International Development MSc

Political Economy of Emerging Markets MSc

• Acemoglu, D. and Robinson J. (2013). Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power and Prosperity. Profile Books.
• Bhagwati, J. (2007). In Defense of Globalization. Oxford University Press.
• Chang, H. (2002). Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective. London: Anthem.
• Dornbusch, R. et al. (2011) Macroeconomics. McGraw-Hill Education.
• Frase, P. (2016). Four Futures: Life after Capitalism. Verso Books.
• Fraser, N. (2022). Cannibal Capitalism: How the System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet, and What We Can Do About It. London: Verso.
• Harvey, D. (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• McMichael, P. (2016) Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, Sage, 6th edition.
• Reinert, E. (2008). How the Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor. Constable Press.
• Rodrik, D. (2011) The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. New York and London: W.W. Norton.
• Sen, A. (2001) Development As Freedom, New Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Todaro, M & Smith, S. (2011). Economic Development. Addison-Wesley, Harlow