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Record Nr.

UNINA9910171011803321

Titolo

Anthropological perspectives on local development : knowledge and sentiments in conflict / / edited by Simone Abram and Jacqueline Waldren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-67238-1

0-415-18278-6

1-134-67239-X

1-280-06702-0

0-203-45102-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AbramSimone

WaldrenJacqueline <1937->

Disciplina

307.14

Soggetti

Community development

Social change

Land use - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Conference papers presented in a workshop at the 1996 EASA Conference in Barcelona.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: anthropological perspectives on local development; Discourses on development in Malaysia; Sex for leisure: modernity among female bar workers in Tanzania; State vs. locality: the new Slovene-Croat state border in the Upper Kolpa valley; From economism to culturalism: the social and cultural construction of risk in the River Esera (Spain); Contested space: planners, tourists, developers and environmentalists in Malta; The road to ruin: the politics of development in the Balearic Islands

When opposite worldviews attract: a case of tourism and local development in Southern FranceIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which



illuminate the attitudes and actions all of those involved in local development schemes.