Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (Contemporary Sociological Prespectives) - Softcover

 
9780415873321: Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change (Contemporary Sociological Prespectives)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415873320 ISBN 13: 9780415873321
Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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, 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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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415873320
ISBN 13 
9780415873321
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288
Editor
McMichael Philip