New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development, Volume 11 (Research in Rural Sociology and Development)

Annotation. 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.jpg 1 sdarticle.pdf 2 sdarticle_001.pdf 4 List of Contributors 4 sdarticle_002.pdf 5 Editorial Advisory Board 5 sdarticle_003.pdf 6 Dedication: To Frederick H. Butteldagger 6 sdarticle_004.pdf 8 New Directions in Commodity Chain Analysis of Global Development Processes 8 Introduction: A Method Without a Theory? 8 Commodity Chain Analysis and the Crisis of Development Theory 10 Commodity Chain Analysis and Determinism 11 Commodity Chain Analysis and Economism 15 Commodity Chain Analysis and Western Bias 17 Conclusion 19 References 20 sdarticle_005.pdf 23 Trans-Local and Trans-Regional Socio-Economic Structures in Global Development: A ’Horizontal’ PerspectiveA shorter version of this paper will appear in Varieties of World-Making: Beyond Globalization by Peter Wagner and Nathalie Karagiannis ((c) Liverpoo 23 Introduction 24 Local Relations of Power in Europe 25 The Trans-Local Structure of Industrial Capitalist Expansion 29 Europe’s Transnational Industrial Expansion 30 The ‘‘European Model’’ of Industrial Capitalist Expansion: A Reinterpretation 33 The Circuit of Capital: The Nineteenth Century Origins of Contemporary Global Governance 38 What Changed and Why 41 The Reconfigured Circuit 45 Nationalism and Dualism in the Third World 45 The Acceleration of Capitalist Globalization 46 Conclusions 49 Notes 50 References 56 sdarticle_006.pdf 60 Changing Rural Scenarios and Research Agendas in Latin America in the New Century 60 Introduction 61 The Changing Context at the Centuryaposs End 63 The Rise of New Ruralities: Conceptual and Methodological Issues 70 Reconfiguring Rural Space: Three Case Studies 75 The Case of Brazilian Soybeans 76 Mexican Dairy Industry: The Case of Jalisco 80 The Resurgence of Ethnicities 84 Concluding Remarks 88 References 90 sdarticle_007.pdf 94 Conquering, Comprador, or Competitive: The National Bourgeoisie in the Developing World 94 Introduction 95 Abdication or Ascendance? The Globalization of the National Bourgeoisie 98 Acting Globally, Thinking Locally: the National Underpinnings of International Competition 103 Forestry and Forest Products in Chile: From Denationalization to Renationalization 103 Pharmaceuticals in India: From Copycats to Innovators 107 Cement in Mexico: Branding and Trading a Nontradable Bulk Commodity 110 Discussion 113 Notes 116 References 117 sdarticle_008.pdf 124 What is Food and Farming for? - The (Re)Emergence of Health as a Key Policy Driver 124 Introduction: Health the Forgotten Dimension? 125 Food Policy in Flux 126 What is the Land for? 134 The Diet and Nutrition Transition: the Evidence for Policy Change 136 The Social Science Contribution to the Farm-Food-Health Nexus 140 Notes 143 References 143 sdarticle_009.pdf 146 Promoting Sustainable Development: The Question of Governance 146 Introduction 147 Sustainable, and Unsustainable, Development 148 Experiments in Regional Governance and the Governance of Natural Resources 150 What Might be Going on Here? 155 The Tensions and Contradictions of Devolved Governance 157 Regional Bodies Challenge the Power of the Entities that have Created them, yet they Rely upon that Central Power for their Existence 158 Rather than Being Inclusive, Regional Bodies can Exclude Key Stakeholders 159 The New Arrangements for Sustainable Development may Embrace and Foster Productivism Rather than Replace it 159 The Enthusiasm for Participation is Likely be Quelled by the Reality of Accountability 161 Rural People are Expected to Act to Save the Planet, but their Ability to do so is Proscribed by their Liminality 163 How then are we to Govern Sustainability? 164 Conclusion 167 Acknowledgments 169 References 170 sdarticle_010.pdf 176 ’Stateless’ Regulation and Consumer Pressure: Historical Experiences of Transnational Corporate Monitoring 176 Transnational Pressure and Labor Monitoring 178 Building on the Human Rights Example 180 Targeting Corporations and Consumers 181 Independent Monitoring 184 The Sullivan Principles 186 Rugmark 189 Guatemalaaposs Coverco 193 Actual Existing Monitoring 197 Conclusion 203 References 204 Websites 207 Interviews 208 sdarticle_011.pdf 209 The Poverty of Resource Extraction 209 Society and Nature 210 The Spatial Separation of fiProduction and Extraction 215 The Internal Dynamic of Extractive Economies 218 Summary and Conclusion 220 References 223 sdarticle_012.pdf 225 From Colonialism to Green Capitalism: Social Movements and Emergence of Food Regimes 225 The Question: is a New Food Regime Emerging? 226 Green Capitalism? 228 Rise and Fall of Food Regimes: Framing and Naming 229 Workers and Farmers: Social Movements and Food Regimes 232 Colonial-Diasporic Food Regime, 1870-1914 232 Crisis of the Colonial-Diasporic Food Regime: Legacies and Alternative Possibilities 235 Mercantile-Industrial Food Regime 238 Crisis of the Mercantile-Industrial Food Regime: Reframing Trade 243 Antecedents to Green Capitalism 247 Lineaments of a Corporate-Environmental Food Regime 249 No Conclusion: The Contest Continues 255 Notes 257 References 260 sdarticle_013.pdf 263 Global Development and The Corporate Food Regime 263 Introduction 263 The Doha Ministerial as a Development Initiative 265 Lineages of a Corporate Food Regime 268 Origins of ’food sovereignty’ 272 Privatization of Food Security via the Corporate Food Regime 274 World Agriculture and Empire 278 The Food Sovereignty Movement 284 Global Capitalism and The Corporate Food Regime 289 Conclusion 291 Notes 292 References 293 sdarticle_014.pdf 298 Shifting Strategies of Sovereignty: Brazil and the Politics of Globalization 298 Globalization, Discourse and Strategies of Sovereignty 300 Discursive Struggles Over Free Trade and National Sovereignty 302 Broadening the Scope: Incorporating Alternative Values Into Trade and Development Policy 305 From National to International Policy: Developing International Alliances 312 Shifting Negotiating Strategies: Free-Trade Discourse and Emergent Internationalism 314 Conclusion 324 Notes 326 Acknowledgments 326 References 327