Philip McMichael grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, completing undergraduate degrees in economics and in political science at the University of Adelaide. After traveling in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and community work in Papua New Guinea, he pursued his doctorate in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He has taught at the University of New England (New South Wales), Swarthmore College, and the University of Georgia, and he is presently International Professor of Global Development at Cornell University. Other appointments include Visiting Senior Research Scholar in International Development at the University of Oxford (Wolfson College) and Visiting Scholar, School of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Queensland. Trained as a historical sociologist, his research examines capitalist modernity through the lens of agrarian questions, food regimes, agrarian and food sovereignty movements, and most recently the implications for food systems of agrofuels and land grabbing. In his work, he has studied and consulted with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development,, the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, the international peasant coalition, La Vía Campesina, and FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN). He teaches courses on Political Sociology of Development; World-Historical Methods; Food, Ecology, and Agrarian Change; and International Development.

About the Authors
Preface to the Seventh Edition
A Timeline of Development
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Development
What Is the World Coming To?
Development: History and Politics
Development Theory
Social Change
PART I. THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (LATE 1940s TO EARLY 1970s)
Chapter 2. Instituting the Development Project: Colonialism, Anticolonial Struggles, and Decolonization
Colonialism
Decolonization
Decolonization and Development
Postwar Decolonization and the Rise of the Third World
Ingredients of the Development Project
Framing the Development Project
Economic Nationalism
Chapter 3. The Development Project: An International Framework in Global Context
The International Framework of National Development Projects
Remaking the International Division of Labor
The Food Aid Regime
Remaking Third World Agricultures
PART II. THE GLOBALIZATION PROJECT (1980s TO 2000s)
Chapter 4. Instituting the Globalization Project
The Debt Crisis and Structural Adjustment Programs: Organizing Neoliberal Development
The Globalization Project
Global Governance
The World Trade Organization
Chapter 5. The Globalization Project: Processes, Experiences, and Implications
Neoliberal Governance of Development and Poverty: IFIs and the WTO
Outsourcing and the (New) Global Division of Labor
Global Labor-Sourcing Politics and Migration
Displacement
Informalization
Neoliberal Development and Extractivism: Reconfiguring International Relations
Agricultural Globalization
Chapter 6. Global Countermovements
Environmentalism
Feminisms
New Sovereignty Struggles: Food Sovereignty
PART III MILLENNIAL RECKONINGS (2000s TO PRESENT)
Chapter 7. The Globalization Project in Crisis
Social Crisis
Legitimacy Crisis
Geopolitical Transitions
Neo-Illiberalism and the Changing of the Guard
Ecological Crisis
Chapter 8. Development Climate, or The Nature of Development
Life-Worlds at Odds
The Challenge of Climate Change
Business as Usual?
Sustainable Intensification Proposals
Sustainable Intensification at Work
Renewable Energy
Conclusion: Ecosystem Priority
Chapter 9. Public and Local Green Initiatives
Public Greening Initiatives
Urban Initiatives
Circular Economy
Transition Towns
The Commons
Rural Initiatives
Agroecology
Conclusion
Chapter 10. Toward Sustainable Development
Ingredients of Project Coherence
What Is Appropriate to These Times?
Sustainable Development Project Implementation
Retheorizing Economics
Green New Dealism
Development Multilateralism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index