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By (author) McMichael, Philip; By (author) Weber Heloise
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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 EditionAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorsAbbreviationsChapter 1 DevelopmentIntroductionDevelopment as an historically relational processWhat Is the World Coming To?Development: History and PoliticsDevelopment TheorySocial ChangeConclusionPart I The Development Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s)Chapter 2 Contextualizing the Development Project: Colonialism, Anticolonial Struggles, and DecolonizationColonialismDecolonizationDecolonization and DevelopmentPostwar Decolonization and the Rise of the Third WorldIngredients of the Development ProjectFraming the Development ProjectEconomic NationalismConclusionChapter 3 The Development Project: An International Framework in Global ContextThe Development Project: What Were Its Main Objectives and How Were They Realized?The Development Project: An International Framework for National DevelopmentRemaking the International Division of LaborThe Food Aid RegimeRemaking Third World AgriculturesConclusionPart II The Globalization Project (1980s to 2000s)Chapter 4 Instituting the Globalization ProjectNeo-classical Economics and Neoliberalism: Global Market SocietyThe Debt Crisis and Structural Adjustment Programs: Organizing Neoliberal DevelopmentGeopolitics and the Globalization ProjectConclusionChapter 5 Experiencing the Globalization Project: Processes and ImplicationsThe (New) Global Division of Labor and OutsourcingGlobal Labor-Sourcing Politics and MigrationNeoliberal Development and Extractivism: Reconfiguring International RelationsAgricultural GlobalizationConclusionChapter 6The Globalization Project in CrisisSocial CrisisLegitimacy CrisisGeopolitical TransitionsDeglobalization?ConclusionChapter 7 Global Re-orderingsGlobalization project legaciesNascent development trajectoriesConclusionChapter 8 Development Climate, or The Nature of DevelopmentLife-Worlds at OddsThe Politics of Climate ChangeBusiness as Usual?Sustainable Intensification ProposalsSustainable Intensification in QuestionRenewable EnergyConclusion: Ecosystem PriorityChapter 9 Public and Local Green InitiativesPublic Greening InitiativesUrban InitiativesCircular EconomyTransition TownsThe CommonsRural InitiativesAgroecologyConclusionChapter 10 Toward Sustainable DevelopmentIngredients of Project CoherenceWhat Is Appropriate to These Times?Sustainable Development Project ImplementationConclusionNotesReferencesIndex
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
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