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Development and social change : a global perspective / Philip McMichael, Cornell University
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Edité par SAGE - 2017 - Sixth edition.
"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." -- Publisher's website
About the author. Preface to the fifth edition. A timeline of development. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Development: theory and reality. The development project (late 1940s to early 1970s). Instituting the development project. The development project : international framework. Globalizing developments. The globalization project (1980s to 2000s). Instituting the globalization project. The globalization project in practice. Global countermovements. Millennial reckonings (2000s to present). The globalization project in crisis. Sustainable development?. Rethinking development. Notes. References. Glossary/index.
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