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Culture, development and social theory : towards an integrated social development / John Clammer.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2012Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781780323169 (e-book)
  • 9781780323152 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.3 23
LOC classification:
  • HM831 .C52 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I. On culture and development. Transforming the discourse of development: culture, suffering and human futures ; On cultural studies and the place of culture in development ; Aid, culture and context ; Liberating development from itself: the politics of indigenous knowledge. -- Part II. Expanding the boundaries of development discourse: two illustrations. Reframing social economics: economic anthropology, post-development and alternative economics ; Culture and climate justice. -- Part III. Development, culture and human existence. Narratives of suffering: human existence and medical models in development ; Towards a sociology of trauma: remembering, forgetting and the negotiation of memories of social violence ; The aesthetics of development ; Emotions of culture, social movements and social transformation.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-281) and index.

Part I. On culture and development. Transforming the discourse of development: culture, suffering and human futures ; On cultural studies and the place of culture in development ; Aid, culture and context ; Liberating development from itself: the politics of indigenous knowledge. -- Part II. Expanding the boundaries of development discourse: two illustrations. Reframing social economics: economic anthropology, post-development and alternative economics ; Culture and climate justice. -- Part III. Development, culture and human existence. Narratives of suffering: human existence and medical models in development ; Towards a sociology of trauma: remembering, forgetting and the negotiation of memories of social violence ; The aesthetics of development ; Emotions of culture, social movements and social transformation.

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