Culture, development and social theory : towards an integrated social development / John Clammer.
Publisher: London ; New York : Zed Books, 2012Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781780323169 (e-book)
- 9781780323152 (hbk.)
- 306.3 23
- HM831 .C52 2012eb

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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