Includes bibliographical references and index. McMichael, P. (Ed.). (2010). Contesting development: critical struggles for social change. New York, NY: Routledge.

Changing the Subject of Development -- Part I: Development for What, and for Whom? -- Contesting Liquor Production and Material Distress in Rural India -- Cities without Citizens: A Perspective on the Struggle of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Durban Schackdweller Movement -- Where Does the Rural Educated Person Fit? Development and Social Reproduction in Contemporary India -- Re-Imagining the Nature of Development: Biodiversity Conservation and Pastoral Visions in the Northern Areas, Pakistan -- Part II: Global Markets, Local Justice -- Marketing and Militarizing Elections? Social Protest, Extractive Security, and the De/Legitimation of Civilian Transition in Nigeria and Mexico -- The Land is Changing: Contested Agricultural Narratives in Northern Areas, Pakistan -- Part II: Global Markets, Local Justice -- Marketing and Militarizing Elections? Social Protest, Extractive Security, and the De/Legitimation of Civilian Transition in Nigeria and Mexico -- The Land is Changing: Contested Agricultural Narratives in Northern Malawi -- Teaching Against Neo-liberalism in Chiapas, Mexico: Gendered Resistance via Neo-Zapatista Network Politics -- Corporate Mobilization on the Soybean Frontier of Mato Grosso, Brazil -- Part III: Overcoming Exclusion, Reclaiming Development -- Mobilizing Agrarian Citizenship: A New Rural Paradigm for Brazil -- Demilitarizing Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Anti-Military Base Activism in Okinawa, Japan -- Decolonizing Knowledge: Education, Inclusion, and the Afro-Brazilian Anti-Racist Struggle -- Challenging Market and Religious Fundamentalisms: The Emergence of Ethics, Cosmovisions, and Spiritualities in the World Social Forum