Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective

✍ Scribed by Professor Philip McMichael

• Publisher: Pine Forge Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 202
• Series: Sociology for a New Century Series
• Edition: 3rd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this Third Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective , author Philip McMichael provides a narrative of how development came to be institutionalized as an international project, pursued by individual nation-states in the post-colonial era. This new edition has been updated and revised to incorporate the treatments of fundamentalism, terrorism, the AIDS crisis, and the commercialization of services via the World Trade Organization.

 

Development and Social Change is the first book to present students with a coherent explanation of how ''globalization'' took root in the public discourse and how ''globalization'' represents a shift away from development as a way to think about non-western societies. This is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate students studying globalization, social development, and social change in Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, and International Studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 8
Preface to Third Edition......Page 9
What Is the World Coming To?......Page 13
The Global Marketplace......Page 15
Global Networks......Page 17
The Social Web of the Global Market......Page 18
CASE
STUDY: The Hamburger Connection......Page 19
Dimensions of Social Change
in the Global Marketplace......Page 20
Development, Globalization,
and Imperial Projects......Page 21
PART I: The Development Project
(Late 1940s to Early 1970s)......Page 22
1. Instituting the
Development Project......Page 23
Colonialism......Page 24
Decolonization......Page 29
CASE STUDY: The Tensions and Lessons
of the Indian Nationalist Revolt......Page 30
Decolonization and Development......Page 31
Postwar Decolonizatio
nand the Rise of the Third World......Page 32
CASE STUDY: Blaming the Victim? Colonial Legacies and
State Deformation in Africa......Page 34
CASE STUDY: Development as Internal Colonialism,
in Ladakh......Page 36
CASE STUDY: National Development and the Building Blocs of
the Global Economy......Page 37
Economic Nationalism......Page 38
Summary......Page 40
2. The Development Project:
International Dimensions......Page 41
The International Framework......Page 42
CASE STUDY:
Banking on the Development Project......Page 44
Remaking the International Division of Labor......Page 47
CASE STUDY: South Korea in the Changing International Division of
Labor......Page 48
The Postwar Food Order......Page 49
CASE STUDY:
Food and Class Relations......Page 52
CASE STUDY:
What Produces a Development Mentality?......Page 55
Summary......Page 56
PART II: From National
Development to Globalization......Page 58
Divergent Developments......Page 59
Third World Industrialization in Context......Page 61
CASE STUDY:
The World Factory in China......Page 62
The Global Production System......Page 64
CASE STUDY: The World Car. From Ford and
Mitsubishi......Page 65
CASE STUDY:
Gendering the Global Labor Force......Page 67
CASE STUDY:
Global Subcontracting in Saipan......Page 69
CASE STUDY: High Heels and High
Tech in Global Barbados......Page 71
CASE STUDY:
The Corporatization of World Markets......Page 72
CASE STUDY:
Agribusiness Brings You the World Steer......Page 73
CASE STUDY: The Global Labor Force and the Link
between Food Security and Food Insecurity......Page 76
Global Sourcing and Regionalism......Page 77
CASE STUDY: Regional Strategy of a
Southern Transnational Corporation......Page 78
Summary......Page 79
The Empire of Containment and the Political
Decline of the Third World......Page 80
Financial Globalization......Page 83
The Debt Regime......Page 86
CASE STUDY:
Debt Regime Politics: Debt Collection as Development?......Page 88
CASE STUDY:
The IMF Food Riots: Citizens versus Structural Adjustment......Page 90
Global Governance......Page 91
CASE STUDY:
Turning the Dominican Republic Inside Out?......Page 93
CASE STUDY: Tanzanian
Civil Society Absorbs Structural Adjustment......Page 95
Summary......Page 96
PART III: The Globalization Project (1980s-)......Page 97
5. Implementing
Globalization as a Project......Page 98
CASE STUDY: Incorporating the Second World into
the Globalization Project......Page 99
CASE STUDY:
Chile-The Original Model of Economic Liberalization......Page 101
CASE STUDY: Mini-Dragon Singapore Constructs Comparative Advantage......Page 102
Global Governance......Page 104
CASE STUDY:
Mexican Sovereignty Exposed: From Above and Below......Page 105
CASE STUDY: Global Comparative Disadvantage: The End of Farming as
We Know It?......Page 109
CASE STUDY: Corporate Property
Rights in India......Page 111
CASE STUDY: Unequal Construction of Knowledges and the
Question of Biodiversity Protection......Page 113
CASE STUDY: Leasing the Rain: Privatizing
the Social Contract in Bolivia......Page 115
CASE STUDY: NAFTA:
Regional Economic Success, Social Failure?......Page 117
The Globalization Project as a Utopia......Page 118
Summary......Page 121
6. The Globalization
Project: Disharmonies......Page 122
CASE STUDY:
Neoliberalism and Food Insecurity......Page 123
CASE STUDY: Trafficldng in Women: The Global Sex Trade versus Human Rights......Page 126
CASE STUDY: Multiculturalism and Its Contradictions......Page 128
Informalization......Page 130
CASE STUDY: lnformalization versus the African State: The Other Side of
"Globalization"......Page 131
CASE STUDY:
The Global AIDS Crisis......Page 132
Legitimacy Crisis and Neoliberalism......Page 134
CASE STUDY: Identity Politics and the Fracturing and Underdevelopment of Nigeria......Page 136
Financial Crisis......Page 137
CASE STUDY: Financial Crisis Releases Indonesian Democratic Forces......Page 138
Summary......Page 139
PART IV: Rethinking Development......Page 140
Fundamentalism......Page 141
CASE STUDY:
Modernity's Fundamentalisms......Page 143
Environmentalism......Page 145
CASE STUDY: Deforestation under the
Globalization Project, Post-Earth Summit......Page 148
CASE STUDY: Managing the Global Commons:
The GEF and Nicaraguan Biosphere Reserves......Page 149
CASE STUDY: Chico Mendes, Brazilian Environmentalist
by Default......Page 150
CASE STUDY:
Local Environmental Managers in Ghana......Page 152
Feminism......Page 153
CASE STUDY: Human Rights versus Cultural Rights:
The Ritual of Female Genital Mutilation......Page 154
CASE STUDY: Andean Counterdevelopment,
or "Cultural Affirmation"......Page 157
CASE STUDY: The New Labor Cosmopolitanism:
Social Movement Unionism......Page 159
Food Sovereignty Movements......Page 160
Summary......Page 162
Legacies of the Development Project......Page 164
CASE STUDY: Water, Water, Everywhere-Unless
It Becomes a Commodity......Page 167
Rethinking Development......Page 168
CASE STUDY:
Global Meets Local: The Microcredit Business......Page 170
CASE STUDY:
Argentina's Turn to Cry......Page 172
Toward an Imperial Project?......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 175
Notes......Page 176
References......Page 180
Glossary /Index......Page 193
Supplementary Web Site Guide......Page 200