Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, 5th Edition (Sociology for a New Century) - Softcover

McMichael, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412992079 ISBN 13: 9781412992077

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2011

Synopsis

In his Fifth Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, author Philip McMichael examines the project of globalization and its instabilities (climate, energy, food, financial crises) through the lens of development and its origins in the colonial project. The book continues to help students make sense of a complex world in transition and explains how globalization became part of public discourse. Filled with case studies, this text makes the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear for students and moves them away from simple social evolutionary views, encouraging them to connect social change, development policies, global inequalities and social movements. The book challenges students to see themselves as global citizens whose consumption decisions have real social and ecological implications.

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About the Author

Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and is an International Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His book Settlers and The Agrarian Question: Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (Cambridge University Press, ©1984) won the 1995 Social Science History Association′s Allan Sharlin Memorial Award. He has also edited The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (Cornell University Press, ©1994), Food and Agrarian Orders in the World Economy (Praeger, ©1995), New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Emerald, ©2005), and Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (Routledge, ©2010). He has served as Director of Cornell University′s International Political Economy Program, as Chair of the American Sociological Association′s Political Economy of the World-System Section, and President of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Agriculture and Food for the International Sociological Association. And he has recently worked with the FAO, IATP and UNRISD, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, and the international peasant coalition, La Vía Campesina.

Review

“I′m highly impressed with the author′s breadth of knowledge. And my students love this book.” Author: Julie Guthman Published On: 2011-04-27

"I like this book a great deal. It is well-organized and the author writes in a style that works well for students that are not sociology majors and perhaps are starting their undergraduate careers." Author: Syndee Knight Published On: 2011-04-27

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1412992079
• ISBN 13: 9781412992077
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 408