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Development and social change: a global perspective

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles Sage Publication 2017Edition: 6th edDescription: xxiii, 394 pISBN:
  • 9781452275901
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.309 M2D3-2017
Summary: In this new Sixth Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, author 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. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective challenges us to see ourselves as global citizens even as we are global consumers. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/development-and-social-change/book239230
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Table of Content:

Chapter 1: Development: Theory and Reality

Part I: The Development Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s)

Chapter 2: Instituting the Development Project

Chapter 3: The Development Project: International Framework

Chapter 4: Globalizing Developments


Part II: The Globalization Project (1980s to 2000s)

Chapter 5: Instituting the Globalization Project

Chapter 6: The Globalization Project in Practice

Chapter 7: Global Countermovements


Part III: Millennial Reckonings (2000s to Present)

Chapter 8: The Globalization Project in Crisis

Chapter 9: Sustainable Development?

Chapter 10: Rethinking Development

In this new Sixth Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, author 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. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective challenges us to see ourselves as global citizens even as we are global consumers.

https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/development-and-social-change/book239230

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