ISBN:
0415873320
,
0203860926
,
1282974386
,
0415873312
,
9781282974388
,
9781135172718
,
9780415873321
,
9780203860922
,
9780415873314
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 269 p)
,
ill., maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Contemporary sociological perspectives
Paralleltitel:
Print version Contesting Development : Critical Struggles for Social Change
DDC:
306.3
Schlagwort(e):
Economic development Case studies Sociological aspects
;
Social change Case studies
Kurzfassung:
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 im
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1. CHANGING THE SUBJECT OF DEVELOPMENT; PART I DEVELOPMENT FOR WHAT, AND FOR WHOM?; 2. CONTESTING LIQUOR PRODUCTION AND 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?: Development and Social Reproduction in Contemporary India; 5.REIMAGINING THE NATUREOF DEVELOPMENT: Biodiversity Conservation and Pastoral Visions in the Northern Areas, Pakistan; PART II GLOBAL MARKETS, LOCAL JUSTICE
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
6. MARKETING AND MILITARIZING ELECTIONS?: Social Protest, Extractive Security, and the De/Legitimation of Civilian Transition in Nigeria and Mexico7. THE LAND IS CHANGING: Contested Agricultural Narratives in Northern Malawi; 8. TEACHING AGAINST NEOLIBERALISMIN CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Gendered Resistance via Neo-Zapatista Network Politics; 9. CORPORATE MOBILIZATION ON THE SOYBEAN FRONTIER OF MATO GROSSO, BRAZIL; PART III OVERCOMING EXCLUSION, RECLAIMING DEVELOPMENT; 10. RECOVERIES OF SPACE AND SUBJECTIVITY IN THE SHADOW OF VIOLENCE: The Clandestine Politics of Pavement Dwellers in Mumbai
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
11. MOBILIZING AGRARIAN CITIZENSHIP: A New Rural Paradigm for Brazil12. 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 AND RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISMS: The Emergence of "Ethics, Cosmovisions, and Spiritualities" in the World Social Forum; CONCLUSION; 15. DEVELOPMENT AND ITS DISCONTENTS; REFERENCES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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