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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348236103321

Titolo

Culture and development in a globalising world : geographies, actors, and paradigms / / edited by Sarah A. Radcliffe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2006

ISBN

1-134-27457-2

1-134-27458-0

1-280-56280-3

9786610562800

0-203-64101-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RadcliffeSarah A

Disciplina

306.3091724

Soggetti

Community development

Culture and globalization

Culture

Economic development - Social aspects

Social capital (Sociology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book-Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Culture in development thinking: geographies, actors, and paradigms; 2 Culture, development, and global neo-liberalism; 3 Culture and conservation in post-conflict Africa:changing attitudes and approaches; 4 Indigenous groups, culturally appropriate development, and the socio-spatial fix of Andean development; 5 Laboring in the transnational culture mines: the work of Bolivian music in Japan; 6 Social capital and migration - beyond ethnic economies

7 Social capital as culture? Promoting co-operative action in Ghana8 On the spatial limits of culture in high-tech regional economic development: lessons from Salt Lake City, Utah; 9 Mobilizing culture for social justice and development: South Africa's Amazwi Abesifazane memory cloths program; 10 Conclusions: the future of culture and



development; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as:development for indigenous peoplenatural resource managementsocial capital and global markets for Third World musicpost-apartheid South Africacultural difference in the USA's late capitalism. The edit