Development and Social Change : A Global Perspective
Development and Social Change : A Global Perspective
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Author(s): McMichael, Philip
McMichael, Philip.
ISBN No.: 9780761988106
Edition: Revised
Pages: 400
Year: 200312
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 74.45
Status: Out Of Print

ForewordAcknowledgmentsA Timeline of Developmentalism and GlobalismPREFACE: Development and the Global Marketplace What is the World Coming To?The Global MarketplaceThe Social Web of the Global MarketCase Study: The Hamburger ConnectionDimensions of Social Change in the Global MarketplaceDevelopment, Globalization and Imperial Projects The Social Web of the Global Market Case Study: The Hamburger Connection Dimensions of Social Change in the Global Marketplace Development, Globalization and Imperial ProjectsPART I. THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (LATE 1940s TO EARLY 1970s)CHAPTER 1: Instituting the Development Project Introduction Colonialism Decolonization Colonial Liberation Case Study: The Tensions and Lessons of Indian Nationalist Revolt Decolonization and Development Postwar Decolonization and the Rise of the Third World Ingredients of the Development Project Case Study: Blaming the Victim? Colonial Legacies and State Deformation in Africa Case Study: Development as Internal Colonialism, in Ladakh The Development Project Framed Case Study: National Development and the Building Blocs of the Global Economy Economic Nationalism SummaryCHAPTER 2: The Development Project: International Dimensions The International Framework The International Framework Remaking the International Division of Labor Case Study: South Korea in the Changing International Division of Labor The Postwar Food Order Remaking Third World Agricultures Case Study: Food and Class Relations Case Study: What Produces a Development Mentality? SummaryPART II. FROM NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO GLOBALIZATIONCHAPTER 3: The Global Economy Reborn Divergent Developments Case Study: The NICs: An Exception that Disproved the Rules? Third World Industrialization in Context Case Study: The World Factory in China Case Study: The World Car: From Ford and Mitsubishi Case Study: Gendering the Global Labor Force Case Study: Global Subcontracting in Saipan Case Study: High Heels and High Tech in Global Barbados Case Study: The Corporatization of World Markets Global Agribusiness Case Study: Agribusiness Brings You the World Steer Case Study: The Global Labor Force and the Link Between Food Security/Food Insecurity Global Sourcing and Regionalism Case Study: Regional Strategy of a Southern Transnational Corporation SummaryCHAPTER 4: Demise of the Third World The Empire of Containment and the Political Decline of the Third World Financial Globalization Case Study: Containment and Corruption The Debt Regime Case Study: Debt Regime Politics: Debt Collection as Development? Case Study: The IMF Food Riots: Citizens vs. Structural Adjustment Global Governance Case Study: Turning the Dominican Republic Inside Out? Case Study: Tanzanian Civil Society Absorbs Structural Adjustment SummaryPART III. THE GLOBALIZATION PROJECT (1980s - )CHAPTER 5: Implementing Globalization as a Project The Globalization Project Case Study: Incorporating the Second World into the Globalization Project Case Study: Chile-The Original Model of Economic Liberalization Case Study: Mini-Dragon Singapore Constructs Comparative Advantage Global Governance Case Study: Mexican Sovereignty Exposed: From Above and Below Case Study: Global Comparative Disadvantage: The End of Farming as we Know it? Case Study: Corporate Property Rights in India Case Study: Unequal Construction of Knowledges and the Question of Biodiversity Protection Case Study: Leasing the Rain: Privatizing the Social Contract in Bolivia Case Study: NAFTA: Regional Economic Success, Social Failure? The Globalization Project as a Utopia SummaryCHAPTER 6: The Globalization Project: Disharmonies Displacement Case Study: Neoliberalism and Food Insecurity Case Study: Trafficking in Women: the Global Sex Industry vs. Human Rights Case Study: Multiculturalism and its Contradictions Informal Activity Case Study: Informalization vs. the African State: the Other Side of "Globalization" Case Study: The Global AIDS Crisis Legitimacy Crisis and Neo-Liberalism Case Study: Identity Politics and the Fracturing and Underdevelopment of Nigeria Financial Crisis Case Study: Financial Crisis Released Indonesian Democratic Forces Case Study: South Korea in Crisis: Running Down the Showcase SummaryPART IV. RETHINKING DEVELOPMENTCHAPTER 7: Global Development and its Counter-movements Fundamentalism Case Study: Modernitys Fundamentalisms Environmentalism Case Study: Deforestation Under the Globalization Project, Post-Earth Summit Case Study: Managing the Global Commons: the GEF and Nicaraguan Biosphere Reserves Case Study: Chico Mendes, Brazilian Environmentalist by Default Case Study: Local Environmental Managers in Ghana Feminism Case Study: Human Rights Versus Cultural Rights: the Ritual of Female Genital Mutilation Cosmopolitan Activism Case Study: Andean Counter-Development, or "Cultural Affirmation" Case Study: The New Labor Cosmopolitanism: Social Movement Unionism Food Sovereignty Movements Case Study: The Case for Fair Trade SummaryCHAPTER 8: Whither Development? Legacies of the Development Project Case Study: Water, Water, Everywhere - Unless it Becomes a Commodity Rethinking Development Case Study: Global Meets Local: the Micro-Credit Business Case Study: Argentinas Turn to Cry ConclusionEndnotesReferencesGlossary/Index.



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