Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective

by McMichael, Philip
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ISBN: 9780761988106
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Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective explains how development thinking and practice have shaped our world. It introduces students to four interconnected projects, and how their dynamics, contradictions and controversies have influenced development trajectories: colonialism, the development era, the neoliberal globalization project, and sustainable development. 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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: McMichael, Philip
  • ISBN: 9780761988106
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.98 x 0.84
  • Number Of Pages: 400
  • Publication Year: 2003

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