Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change 2nd edition

This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the global success of the first edition, providing students, scholars, and development practitioners an up-to-date primer and core reference source. It makes original texts accessible to those wishing to get up to speed quickly on the issues surrounding social change, globalization, and development in the "Third World."The Globalization and Development Reader includes classics in the field and new pieces at its cutting edge. Each has been carefully abridged for non-expert readers, allowing them to get more directly to the author's core points. The book combines meticulously selected readings with clearly-written editorial material, designed to introduce readers to the field as a whole and to each group of writings.The second edition expands the collection of classic texts and, at the same time, provides some of the most important and readable articles and book selections on recent global developments. This is a major revision: 21 of the 33 readings are new for the second edition, with a higher degree of editing and a more global coverage. New pieces help to capture the implications for developing countries of the recent 2008-2010 "Great Recession. "They describe the roots and results of the collapse of the "Washington Consensus," an ideologically-driven program declaring the proper role of governments in leading national development. The new edition includes more on global inequality and uneven economic development, on women, on international migration, on the role of cities, on transformations in agriculture, on the governance of pharmaceuticals, on the international politics of climate change, and on the evolving roles of trade treaties and international institutions like the World Bank and IMF. New material considers the ability of labor and other social movements to organize across borders on the shifting sands of global social transformations.J. Timmons Roberts is the Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, a Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.Amy Bellone Hite is the Clarence Jupiter Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana.Nitsan Chorev is the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Brown University. She was recently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
Core text for students, scholars, and development practitioners on the issues surrounding social change, globalization, and development in the "Third World", including a general introduction to the field, and short, insightful section introductions that introduce each reading.Main text and core reference for students and professionals studying the processes of social change and development in “third world” countries.Carefully excerpted materials facilitate the understanding of classic and contemporary writings.Second edition includes 33 essential readings, including 20 new pieces and the essential canon in the field.New pieces cover the impact of recession, global inequality and uneven development, women, international migration, the role of cities, agriculture and the environment, and climate change.Increased coverage of China and India help to provide genuinely global coverage, and for a student readership the materials have been subject to a higher degree of editing in the new edition.Includes a general introduction to the field, and short, insightful section introductions to each reading.