Development and Social Change
A Global Perspective
4th Edition
Published on 5. February 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
376 pages
978-1-4129-5592-8 (ISBN)
Description
Situating "development" as a world-historical project, this text traces its contours across three historical periods: colonialism, the "development era," and the era of globalization. McMichael shows how the social transformations from "colonial subjects," through "national citizens," to "global consumers" have been inspired and managed through successive projects of development, ordering a changing and unequal world. This fourth edition accentuates ecological themes, the gendering of development, and alternative development visions. Updating showcases the paradox of the "development" lifestyle, "ecological footprints," the "war on poverty," social reproduction issues, the "planet of slums" phenomenon, outsourcing, African re-colonization, the Latin rebellion against neo-liberalism, the rise of China and India, and the ever-changing policy face of the development establishment as it seeks to retain or renew its legitimacy at a time when development is perhaps facing its greatest challenge in the ecologically, socially, and politically destabilizing impacts of climate change.
Reviews / Votes
"Development and Social Change is a richly described and well written survey of change in the post-1950 period...The first edition was a practical and accessible contribution to the literature on social change. The fourth edition continues in this vein." -- Gary Hytrek TEACHING SOCIOLOGY 20081219More details
Series
Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-5592-8 (9781412955928)
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Other editions
Previous edition
Book
02/2004
3rd Edition
SAGE Publications Inc
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Person
Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and is an International Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His book Settlers and The Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (Cambridge University Press, (c)1984) won the 1995 Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Award. He has also edited The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (Cornell University Press, A(c)1994), Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy (Praeger, A(c)1995), New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Emerald, A(c)2005), and Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, A(c)2010). He has served as Director of Cornell University's International Political Economy Program, as Chair of the American Sociological Association's Political Economy of the World-System Section, and President of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Agriculture and Food for the International Sociological Association. And he has recently worked with the FAO, IATP and UNRISD, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, and the international peasant coalition, La Via Campesina.
Content
About the Author Foreword Preface to the Fourth Edition A Timeline of Developmentalism and Globalism Acknowledgments Abbreviations Chapter 1: Development and Globalization: Framing Issues What Is the World Coming to? The Global Marketplace Global Interdependencies The Lifestyle Connection The Development Lifestyle The Project of Development Part I: The Developmen Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s) Chapter 2: Instituting the Development Project Colonialism Decolonization Decolonization and Development Postwar Decolonization and the Rise of the Third World Ingredients of the Development Project Framing the Development Project Economic Nationalism Summary Chapter 3: The Development Project: International Relations The International Framework Remaking the International Division of Labor The Food-Aid Regime Remaking Third World Agricultures Summary Part II: From National Development to Globalization Chapter 4: Globalizing National Economy Third World Industrialization in Context Agricultural Globalization Global Sourcing and Regionalism Summary Chapter 5: Demise of the Third World The Empire of Containment and the Political Decline of the Third World Global Finance The Debt Regime Global Governance Summary Part III: The Globalization Project (1980s - ) Chapter 6: Instituting the Globalization Project The Globalization Project The World Trade Organization Regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) The Globalization Project, World Bank Style Summary Chapter 7: The Globalization Project in Practice Outsourcing Displacement Informalization Global Re-colonization Summary Part IV: Rethinking Development Chapter 8: Global Development and Its Countermovements Fundamentalism Environmentalism Feminism Cosmopolitan Activism Food Sovereignty Movements Summary Chapter 9: Development for What? Development as Rule Legitimacy Crisis of the Globalization Project The Ecological Climacteric Notes References Glossary/Index