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Development and Social Change
A Global Perspective
Eighth Edition
- Philip McMichael - Cornell University, USA
- Heloise Weber - University of Queensland, Australia
Other Titles in:
Social Change and Modernization
Social Change and Modernization
March 2025 | 328 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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. Authors Philip McMichael and Heloise Weber use case studies and examples to help describe a complex world in transition. Students are encouraged to see global development as a contested historical project. By showing how development stems from unequal power relationships between and among peoples and states, often with planet-threatening environmental outcomes, it enables readers to reflect on the possibilities for more just social, ecological and political relations.
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
Supplements
Instructor Site
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