Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Sociology for a New Century Series) - Softcover

 
9781412955928: Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Sociology for a New Century Series)
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ISBN 10: 1412955920 ISBN 13: 9781412955928
Verlag: Pine Forge Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Situating “development” as a world-historical project, this text traces its contours across three historical periods: colonialism, the “development era,” and the era of globalization. McMichael shows how the social transformations from “colonial subjects,” through “national citizens,” to “global consumers” have been inspired and managed through successive projects of development, ordering a changing and unequal world.

This fourth edition accentuates ecological themes, the gendering of development, and alternative development visions. Updating showcases the paradox of the “development” lifestyle, “ecological footprints,” the “war on poverty,” social reproduction issues, the “planet of slums” phenomenon, outsourcing, African re-colonization, the Latin rebellion against neo-liberalism, the rise of China and India, and the ever-changing policy face of the development establishment as it seeks to retain or renew its legitimacy at a time when development is perhaps facing its greatest challenge in the ecologically, socially, and politically destabilizing impacts of climate change.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and is an International Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His book Settlers and The Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (Cambridge University Press, ©1984) won the 1995 Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Award. He has also edited The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (Cornell University Press, ©1994), Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy (Praeger, ©1995), New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Emerald, ©2005), and Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, ©2010). He has served as Director of Cornell University's International Political Economy Program, as Chair of the American Sociological Association's Political Economy of the World-System Section, and President of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Agriculture and Food for the International Sociological Association. And he has recently worked with the FAO, IATP and UNRISD, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, and the international peasant coalition, La Vía Campesina.

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Verlag
Pine Forge Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1412955920
ISBN 13 
9781412955928
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
4
Anzahl der Seiten
376
Herausgeber
McMichael Philip
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