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

• Autore: Radcliffe Sarah
• Pubblicazione: 2006; Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3091724
• Soggetto topico: Community development; Culture and globalization; Culture; Economic development - Social aspects; Social capital (Sociology)
• Classificazione: SCI030000SOC015000
• Persona (resp. second.): RadcliffeSarah A.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Culture and development in a globalizing world
• ISBN: 9786610562800; 9781134274574; 1134274572; 9781134274581; 1134274580; 9781280562808; 1280562803; 9780203641019; 0203641019
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765885903321
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