Development and social change: a global perspective
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9781544305363
Category
Reference
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Publication Year
2022
Publisher
SAGE, United States
Pages
xxvii, 430 p. : ill.
Subject
1. Economic development. 2. Economic history and conditions. 3. Development projects--Case studies.
Abstract
Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective explains how development thinking and practice have shaped our world. It introduces students to four interconnected projects, and how their dynamics, contradictions and controversies have influenced development trajectories: colonialism, the development era, the neoliberal globalization project, and sustainable development.
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.
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.
Description
Contents:
Chapter 1 Development
PART I THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (LAET 1940s TO EARLY 1970s)
Chapter 2 Instituting the Development Project: Colonialism, Anticolonial Struggles, and Decolonization
Chapter 3 The Development Project: An International Framework in Global Context
PART II THE GLOBALIZATION PROJECT (1980s TO 2000s)
Chapter 4 Instituting the Globalization Project
Chapter 5 The Globalization Project: Processes, Experiences, and Implications
Chapter 6 Global Countermovements
PART III MILLENNIAL RECKONINGS (2000s TO PRESENT)
Chapter 7 The Globalization Project in Crisis
Chapter 8 Development Climate, or The Nature of Development
Chapter 9 Public and Local Green Initiatives
Chapter 10 Toward Sustainable Development
Chapter 1 Development
PART I THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (LAET 1940s TO EARLY 1970s)
Chapter 2 Instituting the Development Project: Colonialism, Anticolonial Struggles, and Decolonization
Chapter 3 The Development Project: An International Framework in Global Context
PART II THE GLOBALIZATION PROJECT (1980s TO 2000s)
Chapter 4 Instituting the Globalization Project
Chapter 5 The Globalization Project: Processes, Experiences, and Implications
Chapter 6 Global Countermovements
PART III MILLENNIAL RECKONINGS (2000s TO PRESENT)
Chapter 7 The Globalization Project in Crisis
Chapter 8 Development Climate, or The Nature of Development
Chapter 9 Public and Local Green Initiatives
Chapter 10 Toward Sustainable Development
Biblio Notes
Note: Includes bibliographical references and Index.
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