Contesting Development

Critical Struggles for Social Change
Herausgeber: Mcmichael, Philip

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At a time when the development promise is increasingly in question, with dwindling social gains, the vision of modernity is losing its legitimacy and coherence. This moment is observable through the lens of critical struggles of those who experience disempowerment, displacement and development contradictions. In this book, case studies serve as an effective means of teaching key concepts and theories in the sociology of development. This collection of cases, all original and never previously published and with framing essays by Phillip McMichael, has been written with this purpose in mind. An important additional feature is that the book as a whole reveals the limiting assumptions of development and suggests alternate conditions of possibility for social existence in the world today. In that sense, the book pushes the boundaries of "thinking about development" and makes an important theoretical contribution to the literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780415873314
• ISBN-10: 0415873312
• Artikelnr.: 28529153

Autorenporträt

Philip McMichael is Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University. His research focuses on the politics of globalization, agrarian change, and climate change. Author of Development and Social Change, he recently prepared a report for UNRISD on the food crisis, and works with La Vía Campesina and the food sovereignty movement.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Changing the Subject of Development 2. Have they Disabled Us? Liquor
Production and Grammars of Material Distress in Rural India 3. Cities
without Citizens: A Perspective on the Struggle of Abahlali baseMjondolo,
the Durban Shackdweller Movement 4. Where does the Rural Educated Person
Fit in a Market Society? Negotiating Social Reproduction in Contemporary
India 5. Re-imagining the Nature of Development: Biodiversity Conservation
and Pastoral Visions in the Northern Areas, Pakistan 6. Marketing and
Militarizing Elections? Social Protest, Extractive Security and the
De/Legitimation of 'Civilian Transition' in Nigeria and Mexico 7. The Land
is Changing: Contested Agricultural Narratives in Northern Malawi 8. The
Poverty of Neoliberalism in Chiapas, Mexico: Gendered Resistance via
Neo-Zapatista Network Politics 9. Corporate Mobilization on the Mato Grosso
Soybean Frontier, Brazil 10. Recoveries of Space and Subjectivity in the
Shadow of Violence: the Clandestine Politics of Pavement Dwellers in Mumbai
11. Mobilizing Agrarian Citizenship: a New Rural Paradigm for Brazil 12.
Demilitarizing Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Anti-Military Base
Activism in Okinawa, Japan 13. Decolonizing Knowledge: Education,
Inclusion, and the Afro-Brazilian Anti- Racist Struggle 14. Challenging
Market Fundamentalisms: the Emergence of 'Ethics, Cosmovisions, and
Spiritualities' in the World Social Forum 15. Development and its
Discontents