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Development and Social Change
A Global Perspective
Langbeschreibung
Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective describes the dramatic acceleration of the global and political economy in four parts: colonialism, the development era, the current era of globalization, and global counter-movements for equity and sustainability.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
About the AuthorsPreface to the Seventh EditionA Timeline of DevelopmentAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsChapter 1. Development What Is the World Coming To? Development: History and Politics Development Theory Social ChangePART I. THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (LATE 1940s TO EARLY 1970s)Chapter 2. Instituting 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 NationalismChapter 3. The Development Project: An International Framework in Global Context The International Framework of National Development Projects Remaking the International Division of Labor The Food Aid Regime Remaking Third World AgriculturesPART II. THE GLOBALIZATION PROJECT (1980s TO 2000s)Chapter 4. Instituting the Globalization Project The Debt Crisis and Structural Adjustment Programs: Organizing Neoliberal Development The Globalization Project Global Governance The World Trade OrganizationChapter 5. The Globalization Project: Processes, Experiences, and Implications Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO Outsourcing and the (New) Global Division of Labor Global Labor-Sourcing Politics and Migration Displacement Informalization Neoliberal Development and Extractivism: Reconfiguring International Relations Agricultural GlobalizationChapter 6. Global Countermovements Environmentalism Feminisms New Sovereignty Struggles: Food SovereigntyPART III MILLENNIAL RECKONINGS (2000s TO PRESENT)Chapter 7. The Globalization Project in Crisis Social Crisis Legitimacy Crisis Geopolitical Transitions Neo-Illiberalism and the Changing of the Guard Ecological CrisisChapter 8. Development Climate, or The Nature of Development Life-Worlds at Odds The Challenge of Climate Change Business as Usual? Sustainable Intensification Proposals Sustainable Intensification at Work Renewable Energy Conclusion: Ecosystem PriorityChapter 9. Public and Local Green Initiatives Public Greening Initiatives Urban Initiatives Circular Economy Transition Towns The Commons Rural Initiatives Agroecology ConclusionChapter 10. Toward Sustainable Development Ingredients of Project Coherence What Is Appropriate to These Times? Sustainable Development Project Implementation Retheorizing Economics Green New Dealism Development Multilateralism ConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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 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 International Professor of Global Development at Cornell University. 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. Trained as a historical sociologist, his research examines capitalist modernity through the lens of agrarian questions, food regimes, agrarian and food sovereignty movements, and most recently the implications for food systems of agrofuels and land grabbing. In his work, he has studied and consulted with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development,, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, the international peasant coalition, La Vía Campesina, and FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN). He teaches courses on Political Sociology of Development; World-Historical Methods; Food, Ecology, and Agrarian Change; and International Development.
ISBN-13:
9781544305363
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.03.2021
Seiten:
464
Autor:
Heloise Weber
Gewicht:
626 g
Format:
229x154x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
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