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Record Nr.

UNINA9910392744903321

Autore

MacNeill Timothy

Titolo

Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America / / by Timothy MacNeill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer Nature, 2020

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-37023-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 253 p. 1 illus.)

Disciplina

320.4

338.9

Soggetti

Latin America—Politics and government

Economic development—Environmental aspects

Economic development

Social change

Economic policy

Latin American Politics

Development and Sustainability

Regional Development

Development and Social Change

Development Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Classic Ideas of Modernity, Culture, and Progress -- 3. Culture in Critical and Sociological Thought -- 4. Culture in Development Theory -- 5. Culture in Critical Development Theory -- 6. Origins of a Maya Sustainable Development Movement -- 7. The Maya Idea of Culturally Sustainable Development -- 8. Garifuna Sustainable Development -- 9. Andean Indigenous Sustainable Development -- 10. Indigenizing Development -- 11. Indigenous Sustainable Development.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in



Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and that it is a necessary iteration in thinking on development. This new strain of thought could inform not only the work of development practitioners, graduate students, and theorists working in the Global South, but in the Global North as well. Timothy MacNeill is Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science and Program Director of Sustainability Studies at University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.