SPhilip McMichael
is a Professor of Development Sociology at Cornell University.
His works include Settlers and the Agrarian Question.
Foundations of Capitalism in Colonial Australia (1984);
The Global Restructuring of Agro-Food Systems (1994,
editor); Food and Agrarian Systems in the World Economy
(1995, editor); New Directions in the Sociology of Global
Development (2005, edited with Frederick H. Buttel);
and Development and Social Change. A Global Perspective
(2008, 4th edition). Current research is on the politics
of globalization, with a focus on food regimes, the
food sovereignty movement, and the contemporary agrarian
question.
This
Sawyer Seminar, funded by the Mellon Foundation, includes a year-long
series of working group meetings
and mini-conferences on the central theme of globalization and
the land. It is hosted by UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.
