The Globalization and Development Reader

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The Globalization and Development Reader is a comprehensive, revised second edition compiling essential readings on globalisation and development. It offers a coherent text drawing from classic and contemporary writings to explore social change in "third world" countries. This edition includes 33 key readings, with new material examining recession impacts, global inequality, gender, migration, urban roles, agriculture, pharmaceutical governance, and climate politics. Enhanced focus on China and India broadens global coverage, supported by clear introductions to the field and each reading.
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Ideal for students and professionals in education and development studies seeking a core reference on globalisation and social change processes worldwide.

This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world. It combines selected readings and editorial material to provide a coherent text with global coverage, reflecting new theoretical and empirical developments.

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This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world. It combines selected readings and editorial material to provide a coherent text with global coverage, reflecting new theoretical and empirical developments.

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.

The second edition includes 33 essential readings, with 21 new selections. New pieces cover the impact of the recession in the global North, global inequality and uneven development, gender, international migration, the role of cities, agriculture, and governance of pharmaceuticals and climate change politics.

With increased coverage of China and India, the text provides genuinely global coverage. For a student readership, the materials have been edited to a higher degree in this new edition. It includes a general introduction to the field and short, insightful section introductions to each reading.

New readings include selections by Alexander Gershenkron, Alice Amsden, Amartya Sen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Cecile Jackson, Dani Rodrik, David Harvey, Greta Krippner, Kathryn Sikkink, Leslie Sklair, Margaret E. Keck, Michael Burawoy, Nitsan Chorev, Oscar Lewis, Patrick Bond, Peter Evans, Philip McMichael, Pranab Bardhan, Ruth Pearson, Sarah Babb, Saskia Sassen, and Steve Radelet.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118735107

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 December 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Edited by J. Timmons Roberts
Edited by Amy Bellone Hite
Edited by Nitsan Chorev
Edited by J. Timmons Roberts
Edited by Amy Bellone Hite
Edited by J. Timmons Roberts
Edited by Amy Bellone Hite

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 172.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 948g

Pages: 640

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About the Author

J. Timmons Roberts is the Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown. He has published over seventy articles and his books include A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy (with Bradley Parks, 2007) and Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America (with Nikki Thanos, 2003). Amy Bellone Hite is Chairperson of The Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana. In addition to articles on urbanization and development, gender and class in Latin America, and demographic changes resulting from Hurricane Katrina, Bellone Hite has co-edited two prior volumes with J. Timmons Roberts. Nitsan Chorev is the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International Affairs 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. Her publications include, The World Health Organization Between North and South (Cornell University Press, 2012) and Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2007).