Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective

By Heloise Weber and Philip McMichael

Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective explains how development thinking and practice have shaped our world. It introduces students to four interconnected projects, and how their dynamics, contradictions and controversies have influenced development trajectories: colonialism, the development era, the neoliberal globalization project, and sustainable development. Authors Philip McMichael and Heloise Weber use case studies and examples to help describe a complex world in transition. Students are encouraged to see global development as a contested historical project. By showing how development stems from unequal power relationships between and among peoples and states, often with planet-threatening environmental outcomes, it enables readers to reflect on the possibilities for more just social, ecological and political relations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1544305362
• ISBN13: 9781544305363
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.7"