Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective

About this book

The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Awardenabling 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 partscolonialism developmentalism globalization and sustainabilitythat 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. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award Find out more at www.sagepub.com/sociologyaward