Culture, development and social theory : towards an integrated social development

"Culture, Development and Social Theory places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of ?...

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Main Author: Clammer, J. R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Zed Books , c2012
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245 1 0 |a Culture, development and social theory :   |b towards an integrated social development   |c John Clammer 
260 |a New York :   |b Zed Books ,   |c c2012 
300 |a viii, 291 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 22 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-281) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Transforming the discourse of development : culture, suffering and human futures -- 2. On cultural studies and the place of culture in development -- 3. Aid, culture and context -- 4. Liberating development from itself : the politics of indigenous knowledge -- 5. Reframing social economics : economic anthropology, post-development and alternative economics -- 6. Culture and climate justice -- 7. Narratives of suffering: human existence and medical models in development -- 8. Towards a sociology of trauma : remembering, forgetting and the negotiation of memories of social violence -- 9. The aesthetics of development -- 10. Emotions of culture, social movements and social transformation 
520 |a "Culture, Development and Social Theory places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of ?social suffering?. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Any conception of post-capitalist society, he argues, requires cultural, as well as economic and political, dimensions."-- Publisher's website 
650 0 |a Culture and globalization 
650 0 |a Economic development   |x Social aspects 
650 0 |a Social change 
999 |a 1000157206   |b Book   |c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)   |e Gong Badak Campus