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McMichael, Development and Social Change 5e – Instructor Materials
Development and Social Change Test Bank
What follows are examples of questions for instructors to pose to students to help them make
the connections necessary to following the text, and its interpretation of the world of
development. Five questions for each chapter will focus on the chapter’s content, cumulative
understanding across chapters and how specific cases illuminate general, or global, trends
Chapter 7. Global Countermovements.
1. What does a study of countermovements reveal about the claims and impact of the
globalization project, and its central philosophy of neo-liberalism?
2. Why does environmentalism have different meanings across the North/South division,
and under what conditions is it either antithetical, or integral, to development?
3. What is the significance of the feminist emphasis on unpaid labor for understanding the
core assumptions of development?
4. Members of the global countermovement have been characterized as a ‘new’ form of
social movement, with a ‘cosmopolitan’ perspective. Discuss what this means, drawing
on two or more forms of countermovement activity.
5. In what ways does the idea and management of global ecology reproduce both colonial
and neoliberal relations of governance?
6. What are some of the differences between ‘old’ labor unionism and the ‘new’ unionism?
What do these differences reveal about the practice of and resistance to development?
