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Culture and Development in a Globalizing World - Geographies, Actors and Paradigms (Hardcover)
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Culture and Development in a Globalizing World - Geographies, Actors and Paradigms (Hardcover)
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What difference does it make to add "culture into development
thinking and projects on the ground? This collection of essays
based on recent field research into specific local projects and
development programs explores the multiple and contested ways in
which culture comes into development paradigms and practice.
Culture has gone from being a "background" factor in development
paradigms and practice. Culture has gone from being a "background"
factor in development thinking to becoming a new buzzword, seen to
be central in the dynamics associated with development processes.
Yet the evaluation of practical and theoretical of this cultural
shift in development has often been done abstractly.
By contrast, this text offers a grounded engagement with culture as
it enters into development paradigms, institutions and local
dynamics. With case studies ranging from Africa through to Andean
Latin America, the chapters provide a detailed empirical discussion
of the possibilities of, and limits to, "adding culture" into
development. The collection's strength lies in combining discussion
of projects in the global south, with material about the Mormons
and high tech industries in the United States, and Japanese
consumption of Bolivian music to broaden our understanding of
cultural issues in development.
Key scholars have combined broader theoretical discussions on the
neo-liberal context for development's cultural turn and the concept
of social capital with thorough, critical and original evaluations
of specific development processes and projects. The chapters thus
bring the culture and development debate up-to-date by using the
latest theoretical approaches to socioeconomic change to
criticallyevaluate current initiatives.
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