Culture, Development and Social Theory

Towards an Integrated Social Development

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvJohn Clammer

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This important book 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 'social suffering'. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises 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. Any conception of post-capitalist society, he argues, requires cultural, as well as economic and political, dimensions.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-10-11
Mått138 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor300
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781780323152

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Part I: On culture and development1. Transforming the discourse of development: culture, suffering and human futures2. On cultural studies and the place of culture in development3. Aid, culture and context4. Liberating development from itself: the politics of indigenous knowledgePart II: Expanding the boundaries of development discourse: two illustrations5. Reframing social economics: economic anthropology, post-development and alternative economics6. Culture and climate justicePart III: Development, culture and human existence7. Narratives of suffering: human existence and medical models in development8. Towards a sociology of trauma: remembering, forgetting and the negotiation of memories of social violence9. The aesthetics of development10. Emotions of culture, social movements and social transformationReferencesIndex

In an impressively wide-ranging study of fundamental existential issues, drawing on sources of critical thought from economic and philosophical anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, John Clammer provides a critically engaging analysis of pressing social, economic and environmental concerns which radically reconstitutes our understanding of development and simultaneously demonstrates the progressive political possibilities provided by a profoundly recast cultural turn. This is an important book and deserves to be widely read.