Development And Social Change (a Global Perspective)

By (author) McMichael, Philip; By (author) Weber Heloise
Description:
Development and Social Change explores the historical, socio-political, and ecological aspects of development. The Eighth Edition critically engages with the concept of development, tracing its roots and examining its implications in the contemporary world.
Table of contents:
Preface to the Eighth Edition Acknowledgments About the Authors Abbreviations Chapter 1 Development Introduction Development as an historically relational process What Is the World Coming To? Development: History and Politics Development Theory Social Change Conclusion Part I The Development Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s) Chapter 2 Contextualizing the Development Project: Colonialism, Anticolonial Struggles, and Decolonization 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 Conclusion Chapter 3 The Development Project: An International Framework in Global Context The Development Project: What Were Its Main Objectives and How Were They Realized? The Development Project: An International Framework for National Development Remaking the International Division of Labor The Food Aid Regime Remaking Third World Agricultures Conclusion Part II The Globalization Project (1980s to 2000s) Chapter 4 Instituting the Globalization Project Neo-classical Economics and Neoliberalism: Global Market Society The Debt Crisis and Structural Adjustment Programs: Organizing Neoliberal Development Geopolitics and the Globalization Project Conclusion Chapter 5 Experiencing the Globalization Project: Processes and Implications The (New) Global Division of Labor and Outsourcing Global Labor-Sourcing Politics and Migration Neoliberal Development and Extractivism: Reconfiguring International Relations Agricultural Globalization Conclusion Chapter 6 The Globalization Project in Crisis Social Crisis Legitimacy Crisis Geopolitical Transitions Deglobalization? Conclusion Chapter 7 Global Re-orderings Globalization project legacies Nascent development trajectories Conclusion Chapter 8 Development Climate, or The Nature of Development Life-Worlds at Odds The Politics of Climate Change Business as Usual? Sustainable Intensification Proposals Sustainable Intensification in Question Renewable Energy Conclusion: Ecosystem Priority Chapter 9 Public and Local Green Initiatives Public Greening Initiatives Urban Initiatives Circular Economy Transition Towns The Commons Rural Initiatives Agroecology Conclusion Chapter 10 Toward Sustainable Development Ingredients of Project Coherence What Is Appropriate to These Times? Sustainable Development Project Implementation Conclusion Notes References Index
Biographical note:
Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, completing undergraduate degrees in economics and in political science at the University of Adelaide. After traveling in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and doing community work in Papua New Guinea, he pursued his doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has taught at the University of New England (New South Wales), Swarthmore College, and the University of Georgia, and he is presently Emeritus Professor of Global Development at Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY. Other appointments include Visiting Senior Research Scholar in International Development at the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) and Visiting Scholar, School of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland. His book Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (1984) won t