Development and Social Change : A Global Perspective

by Philip McMichael

• ISBN13: 9781412955928
• ISBN10: 1412955920
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781412992077
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-06
• Publisher: Pine Forge Press
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Foreword

Preface to the Fourth Edition

A Timeline of Developmentalism and Globalism

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Development and Globalization: Framing Issues

What Is the World Coming to?

The Global Marketplace

Global Interdependencies

The Lifestyle Connection

The Development Lifestyle

The Project of Development

The Developmen Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s)

Instituting the Development Project

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

Summary

The Development Project: International Relations

The International Framework

Remaking the International Division of Labor

The Food-Aid Regime

Remaking Third World Agricultures

Summary

From National Development to Globalization

Globalizing National Economy

Third World Industrialization in Context

Agricultural Globalization

Global Sourcing and Regionalism

Summary

Demise of the Third World

The Empire of Containment and the Political Decline of the Third World

Global Finance

The Debt Regime

Global Governance

Summary

The Globalization Project (1980s - )

Instituting the Globalization Project

The Globalization Project

The World Trade Organization

Regional Free Trade Agreements (FTAs)

The Globalization Project, World Bank Style

Summary

The Globalization Project in Practice

Outsourcing

Displacement

Informalization

Global Re-colonization

Summary

Rethinking Development

Global Development and Its Countermovements

Fundamentalism

Environmentalism

Feminism

Cosmopolitan Activism

Food Sovereignty Movements

Summary

Development for What?

Development as Rule

Legitimacy Crisis of the Globalization Project

The Ecological Climacteric

Notes

References

Glossary/Index

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