Contesting development : critical struggles for social change / edited by Philip McMichael.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Changing the Subject of Development / Philip McMichael -- Pt. I. Development for What, and for Whom? -- 2. Contesting Liquor Production and Material Distress in Rural India / Dia Da Costa -- 3. Cities without Citizens: A Perspective on the Struggle of Abahlali base Mjondolo, the Durban Shackdweller Movement / Raj Patel -- 4. Where Does the Rural Educated Person Fit? Development and Social Reproduction in Contemporary India / Karuna Morarji -- 5. Re-Imagining the Nature of Development: Biodiversity Conservation and Pastoral Visions in the Northern Areas, Pakistan / Nosheen Ali -- Pt. II. Global Markets, Local Justice -- 6. Marketing and Militarizing Elections? Social Protest, Extractive Security, and the De/Legitimation of Civilian Transition in Nigeria and Mexico / Anna Zalik -- 7. The Land Is Changing: Contested Agricultural Narratives in Northern Malawi / Rachel Bezner Kerr -- 8. Teaching Against Neo-Liberalism in Chiapas, Mexico: Gendered Resistance via Neo-Zapatista Network Politics / Alicia Swords -- 9. Corporate Mobilization on the Soybean Frontier of Mato Grosso, Brazil / Emelie Kaye Peine -- Pt. III. Overcoming Exclusion, Reclaiming Development -- 10. Recoveries of Space and Subjectivity in the Shadow of Violence: The Clandestine Politics of Pavement Dwellers in Mumbai / Gayatri A. Menon -- 11. Mobilizing Agrarian Citizenship: A New Rural Paradigm for Brazil / Hannah Wittman -- 12. Demilitarizing Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Anti-Military Base Activism in Okinawa, Japan / Kelly Dietz -- 13. Decolonizing Knowledge: Education, Inclusion, and the Afro-Brazilian Anti-Racist Struggle / Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa -- 14. Challenging Market and Religious Fundamentalisms: The Emergence of "Ethics, Cosmovisions, and Spiritualities" in the World Social Forum / Andreas Hernandez -- 15. Development and Its Discontents / Philip McMichael and Karuna Morarji.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.