Development and Social Change : A Global Perspective

by Philip McMichael

• ISBN13: 9781412992077
• ISBN10: 1412992079
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-23
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

In his Fifth Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, author Philip McMichael examines the project of globalization and its instabilities (climate, energy, food, financial crises) through the lens of development and its origins in the colonial project. The book continues to help students make sense of a complex world in transition and explains how globalization became part of public discourse. Filled with case studies, this text makes the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear for students and moves them away from simple social evolutionary views, encouraging them to connect social change, development policies, global inequalities and social movements. The book challenges students to see themselves as global citizens whose consumption decisions have real social and ecological implications.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. xi
Preface to the Fifth Edition	p. xii
A Timeline of Development	p. xvi
Acknowledgments	p. xviii
Abbreviations	p. xxi
Development: Theory and Reality	p. 1
Development: History and Politics	p. 2
Development Theory	p. 4
Naturalizing Development	p. 4
Global Context	p. 6
Agrarian Questions	p. 7
Ecological Questions	p. 9
Social Change	p. 12
The Projects as Framework	p. 14
The Development Experience	p. 15
Conclusion	p. 22
The Development Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s)	p. 25
Instituting the Development Project	p. 26
Colonialism	p. 26
The Colonial Division of Labor	p. 31
Social Reorganization under Colonialism	p. 34
Decolonization	p. 38
Colonial Liberation	p. 39
Decolonization and Development	p. 42
Postwar Decolonization and the Rise of the Third World	p. 43
Ingredients of the Development Project	p. 46
The Nation-State	p. 47
Economic Growth	p. 48
Framing the Development Project	p. 49
National Industrialization: Ideal and Reality	p. 50
Economic Nationalism	p. 51
Import-Substitution Industrialization	p. 51
Summary	p. 54
The Development Project: International Framework	p. 55
The International Framework	p. 56
U.S. Bilateralism: The Marshall Plan (Reconstructing the First World)	p. 57
Multilateralism: The Bretton Woods System	p. 58
Politics of the Postwar World Order	p. 60
Remaking the International Division of Labor	p. 63
The Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs)	p. 63
The Food-Aid Regime	p. 67
The Public Law 480 Program	p. 67
Food Dependency	p. 68
Remaking Third World Agricultures	p. 70
The Global Livestock Complex	p. 71
The Green Revolution	p. 73
Anti-rural Biases of the Development Project	p. 76
Summary	p. 78
Globalizing Developments	p. 80
Third World Industrialization in Context	p. 81
The World Factory	p. 82
The Strategic Role of Information Technologies	p. 85
The Export-Processing Zone	p. 86
The Rise of the New International Division of Labor (NIDL)	p. 88
From the NIDL to a Global Labor Force	p. 92
Global Sourcing	p. 96
Agricultural Globalization	p. 99
The New Agricultural Countries (NACs)	p. 102
Global Finance	p. 104
The Offshore Money Market	p. 104
Banking on Development	p. 105
Summary	p. 108
The Globalization Project (1980s to 2000s)	p. 111
Instituting the Globalization Project	p. 112
Securing the Global Market Empire	p. 113
The Debt Regime	p. 115
Debt Management	p. 116
Reversing the Development Project	p. 117
Challenging the Development State	p. 121
The Globalization Project	p. 125
Global Governance	p. 127
Liberalization and the Reformulation of Development	p. 130
The Making of a Free Trade Regime	p. 135
The World Trade Organization	p. 136
The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA)	p. 138
Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs)	p. 140
Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs)	p. 142
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)	p. 144
Summary	p. 147
The Globalization Project in Practice	p. 150
Poverty Governance	p. 151
Outsourcing	p. 153
Displacement	p. 159
Labor: The New Export	p. 162
Informatization	p. 166
Global Recolonization	p. 174
Summary	p. 180
Global Countermovements	p. 182
Environmentalism	p. 183
Sustainable Development	p. 186
Earth Summits	p. 187
Managing the Global Commons	p. 188
Environmental Resistance Movements	p. 190
Feminism	p. 192
Feminist Formulations	p. 194
Women and the Environment	p. 198
Women, Poverty, and Fertility	p. 199
Women's Rights	p. 201
Cosmopolitan Activism	p. 202
Food Sovereignty Movements	p. 207
Summary	p. 212
Millennial Reckonings (2000s to Present)	p. 215
The Globalization Project in Crisis	p. 216
Legitimacy Crisis	p. 218
Microfinance, or Poverty Capital	p. 220
Post-Washington Consensus?	p. 222
The Latin Rebellion	p. 222
Arab Spring?	p. 224
Geopolitical Transitions	p. 228
Financial Crisis	p. 237
Food Crises	p. 242
Ecological Crisis	p. 244
Conclusion	p. 249
The Sustainability Project	p. 251
The Problem of Climate Change	p. 253
The Pentagon	p. 253
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)	p. 254
The Stern Review and Grassroots Initiatives	p. 256
Stabilizing Ecosystems	p. 259
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)	p. 259
The Centrality of Agriculture	p. 261
International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)	p. 261
Feeding the World	p. 263
The Agro-Ecology Project	p. 265
The World Bank World Development Report (2008)	p. 266
The Global Land Grab	p. 270
Biofuels	p. 273
Green Technology	p. 275
Summary	p. 282
Rethinking Development	p. 284
Development in the Gear of Social Change	p. 285
Nonmarket Values	p. 285
Politicizing Inequality	p. 286
New Geography of Inequality	p. 287
The Analytical and Political "Purchase" of Development	p. 290
Paradigm Change	p. 293
Degrowth Economics	p. 295
Transition Towns	p. 298
The Commons	p. 299
Conclusion	p. 301
Notes	p. 304
References	p. 317
Glossary/Index	p. 353
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