| Description |
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Culture and global change : an introduction / Tracey Skelton and Tim Allen -- Classic conceptions of culture / Peter Worsley -- Globalised culture : the triumph of the West? / John Tomlinson -- Culture and development theory / Peter Worsley -- Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress / Alan Thomas -- Local knowledges and changing technologies / Gordon Wilson -- Understanding health / Murray Last -- Finding the right image : British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery / Henrietta Lidchi -- Representations of conflict in the Western media : the manufacture of a barbaric periphery / Philippa Atkinson -- Sex tourism : the complexities of power / Jan Jindy Pettman -- The city and identity : news frames and the representation of London and Londoners in the Evening standard / Jenny Owen -- |
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Culture as ideology : explanations for the development of the Japanese economic miracle / Roger Goodman -- Cultural disease and British industrial decline : Weber in reverse / Mike Hickox-- Ethnicity / John Eade and Tim Allen -- Local forms of resistance : weapons of the weak / Hazel Johnson -- 'The people's radio' of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida : alternative communication and cultures of resistance in Brazil / Vivian Schelling -- The new migrants : 'flexible workers' in a global economy / Chris J. Martin -- The West, its Other and human rights / Rolando Gaete -- Female circumcision and cultures of sexuality / Melissa Parker -- Street lives and family lives in Brazil / Tom Hewitt and Ines Smyth -- Religion and political transformation / Jeff Haynes -- |
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Religion and development / Parvati Raghuram -- Paying the price of femininity : women and the New Hinduism / Dina Abbott -- Whose game is it anyway? West Indies cricket and post-colonial cultural globalism / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Bollywood versus Hollywood : battle of the dream factories / Heather Tyrrell -- Mimicking Mammon? What future for the post-communist Russian film industry? / Kate Hudson |
| Summary |
"There continues to be a growing interest in questions relating to development and the Third World. With expansion of travel, greater media coverage and new demands from academics for a rethinking of development mechanisms, the Third World has become an area of increasing interest. Culture and Global Change explores aspects of culture and development at a time of rapid global change. Leading contributors engage with the current debate on the importance of culture to development discourse and the Third World, stressing that if development is to have real meaning and value at the local level, there must be a qualitative understanding of the complexities and dynamics of everyday lives. Culture and Global Change explores concepts of culture across the broader issues of development and in so doing shows that development will not be successful unless it is an integral part of existing cultural and social relations." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available in print |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Economic development.
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Human rights.
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Politics and culture.
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Religion and culture.
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Social change.
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| Author |
Allen, Tim, 1956-
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Skelton, Tracey, 1962-
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| LC no. |
00269169 |
| ISBN |
0415139163 (hbk.) |
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0415139171 (paperback) |
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