Philip McMichael

Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective

Buch

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… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-4522-7590-1
EAN: 9781452275901
Produktnummer: 18929812
Verlag: Sage Pubn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 424 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.3 cm 499 g
Auflage: 6. A.
Gewicht: 499

Über den Autor

Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and is an International Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His book Settlers and The Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (Cambridge University Press, ?84) won the 1995 Social Science History Association's Allan Sharlin Memorial Award. He has also edited The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (Cornell University Press, ?94), Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy (Praeger, ?95), New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Emerald, ?05), and Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, ?10). He has served 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, and President of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Agriculture and Food for the International Sociological Association. And he has recently worked with the FAO, IATP and UNRISD, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, and the international peasant coalition, La V? Campesina.