Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective — Philip McMichael et al. (2020)

Book Description

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.

Book Details

• Author: Philip McMichael, Heloise Weber
• Publisher: Sage
• Published Date: 2020-12-21
• Published Year: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9781544305356