Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective

Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 8
Preface to Third Edition......Page 9
What Is the World Coming To?......Page 13
The Global Marketplace......Page 15
Global Networks......Page 17
The Social Web of the Global Market......Page 18
CASE
STUDY: The Hamburger Connection......Page 19
Dimensions of Social Change
in the Global Marketplace......Page 20
Development, Globalization,
and Imperial Projects......Page 21
PART I: The Development Project
(Late 1940s to Early 1970s)......Page 22
1. Instituting the
Development Project......Page 23
Colonialism......Page 24
Decolonization......Page 29
CASE STUDY: The Tensions and Lessons
of the Indian Nationalist Revolt......Page 30
Decolonization and Development......Page 31
Postwar Decolonizatio
nand the Rise of the Third World......Page 32
CASE STUDY: Blaming the Victim? Colonial Legacies and
State Deformation in Africa......Page 34
CASE STUDY: Development as Internal Colonialism,
in Ladakh......Page 36
CASE STUDY: National Development and the Building Blocs of
the Global Economy......Page 37
Economic Nationalism......Page 38
Summary......Page 40
2. The Development Project:
International Dimensions......Page 41
The International Framework......Page 42
CASE STUDY:
Banking on the Development Project......Page 44
Remaking the International Division of Labor......Page 47
CASE STUDY: South Korea in the Changing International Division of
Labor......Page 48
The Postwar Food Order......Page 49
CASE STUDY:
Food and Class Relations......Page 52
CASE STUDY:
What Produces a Development Mentality?......Page 55
Summary......Page 56
PART II: From National
Development to Globalization......Page 58
Divergent Developments......Page 59
Third World Industrialization in Context......Page 61
CASE STUDY:
The World Factory in China......Page 62
The Global Production System......Page 64
CASE STUDY: The World Car. From Ford and
Mitsubishi......Page 65
CASE STUDY:
Gendering the Global Labor Force......Page 67
CASE STUDY:
Global Subcontracting in Saipan......Page 69
CASE STUDY: High Heels and High
Tech in Global Barbados......Page 71
CASE STUDY:
The Corporatization of World Markets......Page 72
CASE STUDY:
Agribusiness Brings You the World Steer......Page 73
CASE STUDY: The Global Labor Force and the Link
between Food Security and Food Insecurity......Page 76
Global Sourcing and Regionalism......Page 77
CASE STUDY: Regional Strategy of a
Southern Transnational Corporation......Page 78
Summary......Page 79
The Empire of Containment and the Political
Decline of the Third World......Page 80
Financial Globalization......Page 83
The Debt Regime......Page 86
CASE STUDY:
Debt Regime Politics: Debt Collection as Development?......Page 88
CASE STUDY:
The IMF Food Riots: Citizens versus Structural Adjustment......Page 90
Global Governance......Page 91
CASE STUDY:
Turning the Dominican Republic Inside Out?......Page 93
CASE STUDY: Tanzanian
Civil Society Absorbs Structural Adjustment......Page 95
Summary......Page 96
PART III: The Globalization Project (1980s-)......Page 97
5. Implementing
Globalization as a Project......Page 98
CASE STUDY: Incorporating the Second World into
the Globalization Project......Page 99
CASE STUDY:
Chile-The Original Model of Economic Liberalization......Page 101
CASE STUDY: Mini-Dragon Singapore Constructs Comparative Advantage......Page 102
Global Governance......Page 104
CASE STUDY:
Mexican Sovereignty Exposed: From Above and Below......Page 105
CASE STUDY: Global Comparative Disadvantage: The End of Farming as
We Know It?......Page 109
CASE STUDY: Corporate Property
Rights in India......Page 111
CASE STUDY: Unequal Construction of Knowledges and the
Question of Biodiversity Protection......Page 113
CASE STUDY: Leasing the Rain: Privatizing
the Social Contract in Bolivia......Page 115
CASE STUDY: NAFTA:
Regional Economic Success, Social Failure?......Page 117
The Globalization Project as a Utopia......Page 118
Summary......Page 121
6. The Globalization
Project: Disharmonies......Page 122
CASE STUDY:
Neoliberalism and Food Insecurity......Page 123
CASE STUDY: Trafficldng in Women: The Global Sex Trade versus Human Rights......Page 126
CASE STUDY: Multiculturalism and Its Contradictions......Page 128
Informalization......Page 130
CASE STUDY: lnformalization versus the African State: The Other Side of
"Globalization"......Page 131
CASE STUDY:
The Global AIDS Crisis......Page 132
Legitimacy Crisis and Neoliberalism......Page 134
CASE STUDY: Identity Politics and the Fracturing and Underdevelopment of Nigeria......Page 136
Financial Crisis......Page 137
CASE STUDY: Financial Crisis Releases Indonesian Democratic Forces......Page 138
Summary......Page 139
PART IV: Rethinking Development......Page 140
Fundamentalism......Page 141
CASE STUDY:
Modernity's Fundamentalisms......Page 143
Environmentalism......Page 145
CASE STUDY: Deforestation under the
Globalization Project, Post-Earth Summit......Page 148
CASE STUDY: Managing the Global Commons:
The GEF and Nicaraguan Biosphere Reserves......Page 149
CASE STUDY: Chico Mendes, Brazilian Environmentalist
by Default......Page 150
CASE STUDY:
Local Environmental Managers in Ghana......Page 152
Feminism......Page 153
CASE STUDY: Human Rights versus Cultural Rights:
The Ritual of Female Genital Mutilation......Page 154
CASE STUDY: Andean Counterdevelopment,
or "Cultural Affirmation"......Page 157
CASE STUDY: The New Labor Cosmopolitanism:
Social Movement Unionism......Page 159
Food Sovereignty Movements......Page 160
Summary......Page 162
Legacies of the Development Project......Page 164
CASE STUDY: Water, Water, Everywhere-Unless
It Becomes a Commodity......Page 167
Rethinking Development......Page 168
CASE STUDY:
Global Meets Local: The Microcredit Business......Page 170
CASE STUDY:
Argentina's Turn to Cry......Page 172
Toward an Imperial Project?......Page 173
Conclusion......Page 175
Notes......Page 176
References......Page 180
Glossary /Index......Page 193
Supplementary Web Site Guide......Page 200