Development and social change : a global perspective
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Development and social change : a global perspective
SAGE, c2017
6th ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 316-357) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Philip McMichael describes a world undergoing profound social, political, and economic transformations, from the post-World War II era through the present. He tells a story of development in four parts - colonialism, developmentalism, globalization, and sustainability - that shows how the global development "project" has taken different forms from one historical period to the next.
Throughout the text, the underlying conceptual framework is that development is a political construct, created by dominant actors (states, multilateral institutions, corporations and economic coalitions) and based on unequal power arrangements. While rooted in ideas about progress and prosperity, development also produces crises that threaten the health and well-being of millions of people, and sparks organized resistance to its goals and policies. Frequent case studies make the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Development: Theory and Reality
Development: History and Politics
Development Theory
Social Change
Part I: The Development 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
Chapter 3: The Development Project: International Framework
The International Framework
Remaking the International Division of Labor
The Food-Aid Regime
Remaking Third World Agricultures
Chapter 4: Globalizing Developments
Third World Industrialization in Context
Agricultural Globalization
Global Finance
Part II: The Globalization Project (1980s to 2000s)
Chapter 5: Instituting the Globalization Project
Securing the Global Market Empire
The Debt Regime
The Globalization Project
Global Governance
The World Trade Organization
Chapter 6: The Globalization Project in Practice
Poverty Governance
Outsourcing
Displacement
Informalization
Global Recolonization
Chapter 7: Global Countermovements
Environmentalism
Feminism
Food Sovereignty
Part III: Millennial Reckonings (2000s to Present)
Chapter 8: The Globalization Project in Crisis
Social Crisis
Legitimacy Crisis
Geopolitical Transitions
Ecological Crisis
Chapter 9: Sustainable Development?
The Challenge of Climate Change
Responses to the Sustainability Challenge
Business as Usual
Public Interventions
Grassroots Developments
Chapter 10: Rethinking Development
Development in the Gear of Social Change
Paradigm Change
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