Culture, Development and Social Theory: Towards an Integrated Social Development

ISBN-13: 9781780323152 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str.

John Clammer; J. R. Clammer

Opis

"Culture, Development and Social Theory" places culture back at the center of debates in development studies, introducing 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 crisis 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. Furthermore, that any conceptions of post-capitalist economies and societies require cultural as well as economic and political dimensions.

Spis treści

Part I: On culture and development 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 Part II: Expanding the boundaries of development discourse: two illustrations 5. Reframing social economics: economic anthropology, post-development and alternative economics 6. Culture and climate justice Part III: Development, culture and human existence 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 References Index