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Routledge Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change

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Product Description 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. Review "Contesting Development is a fascinating collection of case studies from different parts of the world demonstrating how poor people who are excluded from the project of development challenge not just its performance but also its premises. It will be required reading in courses in disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, geography, women's studies, urban studies and planning, and public policy."―Akhil Gupta, Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles "This collection of essays is one of the most compelling responses to the mainstream project of Development available today. The cases go beyond all of the usual rhetoric to show how people live, struggle, negotiate and endure their situations. Each chapter tells a rich story that - even in the midst of poverty and violence - evokes the possibility of change."―Wendy Wolford, Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "The book is more than a wonderful collection of case studies of critical struggles against neoliberal globalization, local-based with global meaning. It is a remarkable work that gives voice to the excluded, the ‘losers,’ the disempowered of the non-Western world, and offers a new approach for understanding them, their lives, their struggles for another development and another possible world."―Gianni Piazza, University of Catania, in Contemporary Sociology 40, 1 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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Brand: Routledge
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 0415873312
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 17 December 2009
Listed Since: 03 August 2009

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