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Faculty Bio

Philip McMichael

Philip McMichael

Professor of Development Sociology

331 Warren Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-7801
Email: pdm1@cornell.edu
Phone: (607) 255-5495

Training

Ph.D. 1979 State University of New York at Binghamton (Sociology)
M.A. 1975 State University of New York at Binghamton (Sociology)
B.A. 1972 University of Adelaide (Politics) (Hons)
B.Ec. 1970 University of Adelaide (Economics)

Areas of Interest

» political sociology
» sociology of development
» comparative-historical methods
» international political economy

Research

My research and teaching interests are in world-historical developments. Current projects center on the politics of globalization, including institutional changes in the global order and globalization counter-movements.

Selected Publications

2006. "Globalization and the Agrarian World." In The Blackwell Companion to Globalization, ed. George Ritzer (Blackwell).

2006. "Peasant Prospects in an Age of Neo-Liberalism," New Political Economy, 11 (3).

2005. "Global Development and the Corporate Food Regime." In New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development, eds. Frederick H. Buttel and Philip McMichael (Amsterdam: Elsevier).

2005. "Globalization." In The Handbook of Political Sociology. States, Civil Societies and Globalization, eds. Thomas Janoski, Robert Alford, Alexander Hicks and Mildred Schwartz (Cambridge).

2005. "Globalization and Development Studies," in Critical Globalization Studies, eds. William Robinson and Richard Appelbaum (Routledge).

2004. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage/Pine Forge Press; 3rd edition).

2003. "Food Security and Social Reproduction," in Power, Production and Social Reproduction, eds. S. Gill and I. Bakker (Palgrave MacMillan).

2001. "World-systems Analysis, Globalization and Incorporated Comparison," Journal of World-System Research VI, 3.

2001. "Revisiting the Question of the Transnational State," Theory and Society, 30, 2.

1995. Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy (ed.). Westport: Greenwood Press.

1994. The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (ed.). Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

1990. "Incorporating Comparison within a World-Historical Perspective: An Alternative Comparative Method," American Sociological Review, 55, 3.

1984. Settlers and the Agrarian Question. Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia. New York: Cambridge University Press.