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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 8. The Globalization Project in Crisis
1. In what ways can development be understood as a form of rule?
2. If ‘credit is a fundamental human right,’ who should dispense it, and why?
3. The globalization project, like all such political projects, has experienced a continuous
legitimacy crisis – how do we know? What forms does it take?
4. Creating a market for carbon emissions assumes that markets determine best how scarce
resources are used. Is this true?
5. One way in which international development is realized is through inequality. What key
forms of inequality distinguish and/or define its three historical periods (colonial,
development, and globalization)?
6. How have trans-local developments (globalization) challenged conventional development
theory? What are some new approaches to development that transcend conventional
theories?
7. Does the emergence of the BRIC nations confirm or unsettle sequential (or linear)
conceptions of development? How can the rise of BRIC nations be understood from a
relational conception of development?
8. How have International Financial Institutions represented the financial crisis? How do
their representations of the crisis reveal a politics of framing development? What
relations do they conceal and what are the effects of their representations/framings of
development?
