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The distribution of the world's material wealth is far from even. And while most of the western world may be accustomed to a commercial culture, there are other cultures (e.g., Amish, Islamic, peasant) that are not commercial or are uncomfortable with commercial definition. Because cultural meaning is not universally defined through the market, "globalization," as it is currently understood, is not necessarily a universal aspiration. Why then, is there so much talk of globalization? In this Third Edition of "Development and Social Change", 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. The evident failure of many countries to fulfill this promise of development and the world's growing awareness of environmental limits have forced a reevaluation of the development enterprise. Development and Social Change traces the changing fortunes of development efforts, the shortcomings of which have produced two responses. One is to advocate a thoroughly global market to expand trade and spread the wealth. The other is to reevaluate the economic emphasis and to recover a sense of cultural community. "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.
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About the Author
Foreword
Acknowledgments
A Timeline of Developmentalism and Globalism
PREFACE: Development and the Global Marketplace
What is the World Coming To?
The Global Marketplace
The Social Web of the Global Market
Case Study: The Hamburger Connection
Dimensions of Social Change in the Global Marketplace
Development, Globalization and Imperial Projects
PART 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
Summary
CHAPTER 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?
Summary
PART II FROM NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO GLOBALIZATION
CHAPTER 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
Summary
CHAPTER 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 vsStructural Adjustment
Global Governance
Case Study: Turning the Dominican Republic Inside Out?
Case Study: Tanzanian Civil Society Absorbs Structural Adjustment
Summary
PART 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 Knowledge's 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
Summary
CHAPTER 6: The Globalization Project: Disharmonies
Displacement
Case Study: Neoliberalism and Food Insecurity
Case Study: Trafficking in Women: the Global Sex Industry vsHuman Rights
Case Study: Multiculturalism and its Contradictions
Informal Activity
Case Study: Informalization vsthe 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
Summary
PART IV RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 7: Global Development and its Counter-movements
Fundamentalism
Case Study: Modernity's 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
Summary
CHAPTER 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: Argentina's Turn to Cry
Conclusion
Endnotes
References
Glossary/Index /