New directions in the sociology of global development (Elsevier JAI, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references
Why is global development so unequal in its social impact? How are global relations represented in local developments, and vice versa? What role do social movements play in shaping global development? These are some of the questions animating this state-of-the-art collection of essays. Subdivided into sections posing research, policy, and strategic questions regarding contemporary social change, this volume brings together scholars well-known for challenging conventional wisdoms in the sociology of global development. In exploring development, these chapters range across the global North and South, economic sectors, policy scales, state/civil society relations, social models, and changing compositional and contextual dimensions of capitalism. Authors introduce conceptual innovations regarding the spatial boundaries of development, sovereignty and the politics of globalization, food regime analysis, recompositions of rural activity, the question of the national bourgeoisies role in the developing world, the health dimensions of food and farming, and the salience of regional governance in sustainable development. Methodologically, this collection breaks new ground with essays reinterpreting commodity chain analysis, accounting for the impoverishing impact of resource extraction, incorporating social movements into the analysis of development, and historically specifying contemporary trends in global development
Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Dedication: To Frederick H. Buttel -- New Directions in Commodity Chain Analysis of Global Development Processes -- Introduction: A Method Without a Theory? -- Commodity Chain Analysis and the Crisis of Development Theory -- Commodity Chain Analysis and Determinism -- Commodity Chain Analysis and Economism -- Commodity Chain Analysis and Western Bias -- Conclusion -- References -- Trans-Local and Trans-Regional Socio-Economic Structures in Global Development: A 'Horizontal' Perspective -- Introduction -- Local Relations of Power in Europe -- The Trans-Local Structure of Industrial Capitalist Expansion -- Europe's Transnational Industrial Expansion -- The "European Model" of Industrial Capitalist Expansion: A Reinterpretation -- The Circuit of Capital: The Nineteenth Century Origins of Contemporary Global Governance -- What Changed and Why -- The Reconfigured Circuit --
- Nationalism and Dualism in the Third World -- The Acceleration of Capitalist Globalization -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Changing Rural Scenarios and Research Agendas in Latin America in the New Century -- Introduction -- The Changing Context at the Century's End -- The Rise of New Ruralities: Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- Reconfiguring Rural Space: Three Case Studies -- The Case of Brazilian Soybeans -- Mexican Dairy Industry: The Case of Jalisco -- The Resurgence of Ethnicities -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Conquering, Comprador, or Competitive: The National Bourgeoisie in the Developing World -- Introduction -- Abdication or Ascendance? The Globalization of the National Bourgeoisie -- Acting Globally, Thinking Locally: The National Underpinnings of International Competition -- Forestry and Forest Products in Chile: From Denationalization to Renationalization -- Pharmaceuticals in India: From Copycats to Innovators --
- Cement in Mexico: Branding and Trading a Nontradable Bulk Commodity -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- What is Food and Farming for? -- The (RE)Emergence of Health as a Key Policy Driver* -- Introduction: Health the Forgotten Dimension? -- Food Policy in Flux -- What is the Land for? -- The Diet and Nutrition Transition: the Evidence for Policy Change -- The Social Science Contribution to the Farm-Food-Health Nexus -- Notes -- References -- Promoting Sustainable Development: The Question of Governance* -- Introduction -- Sustainable, and Unsustainable, Development -- Experiments in Regional Governance and the Governance of Natural Resources -- What Might be Going on Here? -- The Tensions and Contradictions of Devolved Governance -- Regional Bodies Challenge the Power of the Entities that have Created them, yet they Rely upon that Central Power for their Existence -- Rather than Being Inclusive, Regional Bodies can Exclude Key Stakeholders --