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Development and Social Change
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Development and Social Change
A Global Perspective

Eighth Edition
March 2025 | 328 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Development and Social Change explores the historical, socio-political, and ecological aspects of development. The Eighth Edition critically engages with the concept of development, tracing its roots and examining its implications in the contemporary world. Authors Philip McMichael 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.
 
Preface to the Eighth Edition
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Abbreviations
 
Chapter 1 Development
Introduction

 
Development as an historically relational process

 
What Is the World Coming To?

 
Development: History and Politics

 
Development Theory

 
Social Change

 
Conclusion

 
 
Part I The Development Project (Late 1940s to Early 1970s)
 
Chapter 2 Contextualizing 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

 
Conclusion

 
 
Chapter 3 The Development Project: An International Framework in Global Context
The Development Project: What Were Its Main Objectives and How Were They Realized?

 
The Development Project: An International Framework for National Development

 
Remaking the International Division of Labor

 
The Food Aid Regime

 
Remaking Third World Agricultures

 
Conclusion

 
 
Part II The Globalization Project (1980s to 2000s)
 
Chapter 4 Instituting the Globalization Project
Neo-classical Economics and Neoliberalism: Global Market Society

 
The Debt Crisis and Structural Adjustment Programs: Organizing Neoliberal Development

 
Geopolitics and the Globalization Project

 
Conclusion

 
 
Chapter 5 Experiencing the Globalization Project: Processes and Implications
The (New) Global Division of Labor and Outsourcing

 
Global Labor-Sourcing Politics and Migration

 
Neoliberal Development and Extractivism: Reconfiguring International Relations

 
Agricultural Globalization

 
Conclusion

 
 
Chapter 6 The Globalization Project in Crisis
Social Crisis

 
Legitimacy Crisis

 
Geopolitical Transitions

 
Deglobalization?

 
Conclusion

 
 
Chapter 7 Global Re-orderings
Globalization project legacies

 
Nascent development trajectories

 
Conclusion

 
 
Chapter 8 Development Climate, or The Nature of Development
Life-Worlds at Odds

 
The Politics of Climate Change

 
Business as Usual?

 
Sustainable Intensification Proposals

 
Sustainable Intensification in Question

 
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

 
Conclusion

 
 
Notes
 
References
 
Index

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