Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective 6th Edition, Kindle Edition
by Philip McMichael (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop.
In this new Sixth Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective,
author Philip McMichael describes a world undergoing profound social, political, and economic transformations, from the post-World War II era through the present.
He tells a story of development in four parts—colonialism, developmentalism, globalization, and sustainability—that shows how the global development "project" has taken different forms from one historical period to the next.
Throughout the text, the underlying conceptual framework is that development is a political construct, created by dominant actors (states, multilateral institutions, corporations and economic coalitions) and based on unequal power arrangements.
While rooted in ideas about progress and prosperity, development also produces crises that threaten the health and well-being of millions of people, and sparks organized resistance to its goals and policies. Frequent case studies make the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective challenges us to see ourselves as global citizens even as we are global consumers.
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"The book does a fantastic job of laying out the history of development, and does so by dividing up different development eras into projects. It is packed with excellent and important information. The "case studies" in the book bring occasionally dry issues to life. And I value the book′s overarching attention to inequality at all levels as a way to understand the world." -- Leif Jensen
"I wanted one book that contained everything that I want my students to know. This book contains it all. The historical continuity woven across chapters allows me to teach development exactly like I want to…I like the emphasis on the environment and climate change, and land grabs / land-based investment." -- Cynthia Caron
"The book is very well structured. Difficult concepts are well explained. McMichael makes it very clear what the stages of development are, and brings examples that help students recognize those stages in their own social environment. While reading, students easily find connections between the theory and their observations." -- Olena Leipnik --This text refers to the paperback edition.
About the Author
Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, completing undergraduate degrees in economics and in political science at the University of Adelaide. After traveling in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and community work in Papua New Guinea, he pursued his doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has taught at the University of New England (New South Wales), Swarthmore College, and the University of Georgia, and he is presently International Professor of Global Development at Cornell University. Other appointments include Visiting Senior Research Scholar in International Development at the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) and Visiting Scholar, School of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland. Trained as a historical sociologist, his research examines capitalist modernity through the lens of agrarian questions, food regimes, agrarian and food sovereignty movements, and most recently the implications for food systems of agrofuels and land grabbing. In his work, he has studied and consulted with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development,, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, the international peasant coalition, La Vía Campesina, and FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN). He teaches courses on Political Sociology of Development; World-Historical Methods; Food, Ecology, and Agrarian Change; and International Development. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
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"The book does a fantastic job of laying out the history of development, and does so by dividing up different development eras into projects. It is packed with excellent and important information. The "case studies" in the book bring occasionally dry issues to life. And I value the book′s overarching attention to inequality at all levels as a way to understand the world." (Leif Jensen)
"I wanted one book that contained everything that I want my students to know. This book contains it all. The historical continuity woven across chapters allows me to teach development exactly like I want to…I like the emphasis on the environment and climate change, and land grabs / land-based investment." (Cynthia Caron)
"The book is very well structured. Difficult concepts are well explained. McMichael makes it very clear what the stages of development are, and brings examples that help students recognize those stages in their own social environment. While reading, students easily find connections between the theory and their observations." (Olena Leipnik) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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Publisher : SAGE Publications, Inc; 6th edition (January 25, 2016)
Publication date : January 25, 2016
Language : English
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Print length : 424 pages
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A. Volzer
4.0 out of 5 stars too advanced for undergraduate introductory material to development
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Very good, detailed, and adequately addresses the complexity of the development amd globalization projects from an introductory perspective. Unfortunately, it is jargon-y and dense, so it is nearly impossible to read if you are truly at an introductory level to the topic. I appreciate the strong criticism of the western project of "development" without overwhelming the text and coming off as anti-western. Having traveled in Africa, I can say it does a good job at getting to the heart of why many countries are trapped in poverty, but it stays too abstract for that to really come through without direct experience with what they are talking about. This is a good book for making sense of what I saw and experienced over there. Not a good book for learning about the problem before hand or for an undergraduate class.
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I got this as a textbook for one of my online classes. It is poorly written and I have no idea what I was supposed to learn from it. Thanks to the horrible writing in this book, I failed the class.
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5.0 out of 5 stars well it was for a college course
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so it was as good as a college text book that you didn't want to but so instead rented for a MUCH LESSER price can be. 10/10 would recommend to rent instead of buy!
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Read for my soc/ps/ec class
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Extremely hard to read. Does not explain sociology well.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2019
This book was vital to my training in global social change and development, and I still find myself coming back to it from time to time. I enjoyed this as a Ph.D. student in sociology and continue to draw inspiration and insight as a soon-to-be full professor. I can't say that about many books. Alvin So's Social Change and Development may be the primary counterpart I recommend to this.
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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. (less)
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Published November 23rd 2011 by Sage Publications, Inc (first published January 25th 2000)
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Dev Scott Flores
Jun 09, 2018Dev Scott Flores rated it really liked it
The new edition (6th) addresses the complaints about being 'scattered.' I'd use it if I were teaching Change & Development to sociology majors or grad students (less)
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Amani
Jan 12, 2017Amani rated it really liked it
Very informative and fun. But it's difficult to keep up, the information was too scattered. But generally, highly recommended. (less)
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Nov 24, 2018Leah Nugent rated it really liked it
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Dec 24, 2018Hampton Stall rated it really liked it
very interesting overview of the 20th-21st century of global 'development', provides interesting case examples and a great history (less)
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Alessandra
Feb 20, 2018Alessandra rated it really liked it
One of the best books on development I’ve read. McMichael presents a succinct history of the field without falling victim to the oversimplification often found in textbooks.
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Shannon
Dec 27, 2016Shannon rated it liked it
Interesting take on different perspectives of globalization, but was a bit repetitive at points.
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Melissa
Jan 17, 2012Melissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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This book is one of my favorites of the year and it is a book that I recommend everyone to read. The book might be hard to read for people since it is a textbook and most people don't like to read these sort of things. They only do so as requirement for school. You should read the book though since it pertains to globalization and globalization affects all of us. It is a system that was started to improve our world, though the ongoing results of this goal are debatable. Progress is not necessarily a good thing, nor is it always even necessary. Sometimes people mistake progression as an improvement when it actually isn't. For example, does having more roads around the world, in third world countries make the world better? Why are these roads even made for anyway? And for whom? A lot of the time roads are made to better transport goods and other materials that serve to make money. But money that doesn't benefit people, like indigenous people found in these countries. The money is mostly made for corporations and companies, which isn't fair because the point of globalization is improvement. This demonstrates that globalization doesn't necessarily mean equality for all. That it doesn't work for all people.
In this book you will learn a lot about how globalization started, how it evolved to the globalization project, how it works, and how it affects people around the world. You will learn about the global power structure. You will learn that improvement/progression is measured in economic terms. The most important thing is how much money can be made. Not how happy can you be, how healthy, how much food security people have, etc. And you might be surprised to find that globalization negatively affects many people, more so than positively affects them. I personally wasn't surprised because I have always thought that this world and that the people in it aren't that great a lot of the time. So it wasn't hard for me to accept what I was learning in the book. Not that there isn't any good in this world, but I have always considered myself realistic and I'm ok with stating that a lot of negativity permeates our planet. Whatever problems we might encounter in this country though, we are still far better off than most people in the rest of the world.
What I liked about this book was that it wasn't just a bunch of facts and statistics and things. It has a series of case studies throughout the book so you could better understand the situations globalization brings to all sorts of people. And I liked that the author doesn't ignore the inequalities found on a global scale that are caused by globalization. He talks about race, ethnicity, gender, class inequalities. I find his portrayal of these things very honest. He just presents facts whether we like them or not. This book is a learning experience and by reading it you will expand your knowledge on how this global structure works.
I would like to recommend this documentary that I think goes well with this book. It's empowering, but also upsetting.
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Litbitch
Jan 22, 2012Litbitch rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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Excellent. I recommend for anyone who wants to understand the goals of and transitions from colonialism to sustainable development to neo-liberal globalization, particularly the power and influence of the Bretton-Woods organizations (WTO, IMF). If you want to know why poor countries are poor, why food-producing nations can't feed themselves, why trade is such a crucial human rights issue, read it. Well-written and thorough. It's not a 5 only because I was annoyed by the textbook-like rhetorical questions he drops in occasionally. (less)
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Susie
Apr 07, 2018Susie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This books give clear and simple explanations to the way the world works and it also gives case studies.
Read for SOCI 320
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Korean Jh
Nov 29, 2013Korean Jh rated it it was amazing
Very informative, think again the danger of community development in the third world country. The community development would be the key element to change the poor countries but not the master key.
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