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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New York :
Zed Books ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 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