Culture and development in a globalizing world geographies, actors, and paradigms /

Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case stud...

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Other Authors: Radcliffe, Sarah A.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Culture in development thinking : geographies, actors and paradigms / Sarah A. Radcliffe
  • Culture, development and global neo-liberalism / Michael Watts
  • Culture and conservation in post-conflict Africa : changing attitudes and approaches / Elizabeth E. Watson
  • Indigenous groups, culturally appropriate development and the socio-spatial fix of Andean development / Sarah A. Radcliffe and Nina Laurie
  • Laboring in the transnational culture mines : the work of Bolivian music in Japan / Michelle Bigenho
  • Social capital and migration
  • beyond ethnic economies / Jan Nederveen Pieterse
  • Social capital as culture? Promoting co-operative action in Ghana / Gina Porter and Fergus Lyon
  • On the spatial limits of culture in high-tech regional economic development: lessons from Salt Lake City, Utah / Al James
  • Mobilizing culture for social justice and development : South Africa's Amazwi Abesifazane memory cloths program / Cheryl McEwan
  • Conclusions: the future of culture and development / Sarah A. Radcliffe.