Development and Social Change - Mcmichael, Philip

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Auteur(s) : Mcmichael, Philip - Weber, Heloise

Editeur : Sage Publications

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/01/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 464

Expédition : 626

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.4 x 2.4

ISBN : 1544305362

Résumé :

Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, completing undergraduate degrees in economics and in political science at the University of Adelaide. After traveling in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and doing community work in Papua New Guinea, he pursued his doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has taught at the University of New England (New South Wales), Swarthmore College, and the University of Georgia, and he is presently Emeritus Professor of Global Development at Cornell University, in Ithaca, NY. Other appointments include Visiting Senior Research Scholar in International Development at the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) and Visiting Scholar, School of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland.

His book Settlers and the Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (1984) won the Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Award in 1985. In addition to authoring Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions (2013), McMichael edited The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (1994), Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy (1995), New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (2005) with Frederick H. Buttel, Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (2010), The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change (2011) with Jun Borras and Ian Scoones, and Finance or Food? The Role of Cultures, Values and Ethics in Land Use Negotiations, with Hilde Bj?rkhaug and Bruce Muirhead (2020).

He has served twice as chair of his department, as director of Cornell University's International Political Economy Program, as chair of the American Sociological Association's Political Economy of the World-System Section, as president of the Research Committee on Agriculture and Food for the International Sociological Association. He is also an active member of the International Studies Association. He has also worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Civil Society Mechanism of the FAO's Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the international peasant coalition Via Campesina, and the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty....

Biographie:
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
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Sommaire:
Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective describes the dramatic acceleration of the global and political economy in four parts: colonialism, the development era, the current era of globalization, and global counter-movements for equity and sustainability....