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 Mc Michael 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.
Table of Content
About the Authors
Preface to the Seventh Edition
A Timeline of Development
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Development
What Is the World Coming To?
Development: History and Politics
Development Theory
Social Change
PART I. THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (LATE 1940s TO EARLY 1970s)
Chapter 2. Instituting the Development Project: Colonialism, Anticolonial Struggles, and Decolonization
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
Chapter 3. The Development Project: An International Framework in Global Context
The International Framework of National Development Projects
Remaking the International Division of Labor
The Food Aid Regime
Remaking Third World Agricultures
PART II. THE GLOBALIZATION PROJECT (1980s TO 2000s)
Chapter 4. Instituting the Globalization Project
The Debt Crisis and Structural Adjustment Programs: Organizing Neoliberal Development
The Globalization Project
Global Governance
The World Trade Organization
Chapter 5. The Globalization Project: Processes, Experiences, and Implications
Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO
Outsourcing and the (New) Global Division of Labor
Global Labor-Sourcing Politics and Migration
Displacement
Informalization
Neoliberal Development and Extractivism: Reconfiguring International Relations
Agricultural Globalization
Chapter 6. Global Countermovements
Environmentalism
Feminisms
New Sovereignty Struggles: Food Sovereignty
PART III MILLENNIAL RECKONINGS (2000s TO PRESENT)
Chapter 7. The Globalization Project in Crisis
Social Crisis
Legitimacy Crisis
Geopolitical Transitions
Neo-Illiberalism and the Changing of the Guard
Ecological Crisis
Chapter 8. Development Climate, or The Nature of Development
Life-Worlds at Odds
The Challenge of Climate Change
Business as Usual?
Sustainable Intensification Proposals
Sustainable Intensification at Work
Renewable Energy
Conclusion: Ecosystem Priority
Chapter 9. Public and Local Green Initiatives
Public Greening Initiatives
Urban Initiatives
Circular Economy
Transition Towns
The Commons
Rural Initiatives
Agroecology
Conclusion
Chapter 10. Toward Sustainable Development
Ingredients of Project Coherence
What Is Appropriate to These Times?
Sustainable Development Project Implementation
Retheorizing Economics
Green New Dealism
Development Multilateralism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Heloise Weber was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where she spent her childhood before growing up and studying in England. She completed her undergraduate degree in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University), and received her doctorate from the University of Southampton. She held a research fellowship and also taught at the University of Warwick and has held tenure track positions at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Sussex. Her current position is in International Relations and Development, at the School of Political Science and International Studies, the University of Queensland. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Political Economy/Department of Political Science Carleton University (Canada), Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, and with the Normative Orders Research Cluster, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Her research interests are in the politics of global development and inequality, and critical approaches to international relations. Her publications include Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics (coauthored with Mark T. Berger), and Politics of Development: A Survey (edited). She also coedited a special section of the Review of International Political Economy on the political economy of the GATS/ WTO and development as well as a special issue of Globalizations on Rethinking Development: Beyond Recognition and Redistribution. She has published on the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Agenda in the SAIS Review of International Affairs, Globalizations and World Development (the latter coauthored with Martin Weber). Her work engaging international relations includes “Colonialism, Genocide and International Relations: Struggles for Restorative Relations” in the European Journal of International Relations (coauthored with Martin Weber). She is an active member of the Global Development Studies (GDS) Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), and has served twice as GDS program and section chair.
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