Culture, Development and Social Theory ：Towards an Integrated Social Development ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Towards an Integrated Social Development

Publication series ：1

Author： Clammer John

Publisher： Zed Books‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781780323169

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781780323152

Subject： G05 cultural relationship with other subjects

Keyword：社会科学理论与方法论

Language： ENG

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Description

This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of social suffering. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Any conception of post-capitalist society, he argues, requires cultural, as well as economic and political, dimensions.

Chapter

PART I On culture and development

1 Transforming the discourse of development: cultures, suffering and human futures

Culture and the structures of development inquiry

The trouble with culture

Culture, development and social transformation

Structure of the book

Culture, history and development theory

2 On cultural studies and the place of culture in development

Locating culture

The meanings of culture

Cultural studies and development theory

Reasserting culture

Beyond path dependency: theoretical and practical implications

A closing meditation on ‘spaces of hope’

3 Aid, culture and context

Culture, globalization and aid

Aid refigured in the context of culture

4 Liberating development from itself: the politics of indigenous knowledge

Critical approaches to indigenous knowledge

The problem of knowledge

The politics of knowledge

Towards a strategic theory of indigenous knowledge

What exactly is the paradigm shift?

Six theses on indigenous knowledge

PART II Expanding the boundaries of development discourse: two illustrations

5 Reframing social economics: economic anthropology, post-development and alternative economics

Background to the debate

Alternative economic thinking

Articulating alternatives

Post-capitalism and anthropology

Mapping the future

6 Culture and climate justice

Culture and climate

Culture and core values

Culture and justice

PART III Development, culture and human existence

7 Narratives of suffering: human existence and medical models in development

Suffering and development

Narrative, development, empowerment

Medical models and development

Suffering and methodology in development studies

Widening the moral community

8 Towards a sociology of trauma: remembering, forgetting and the negotiation of memories of social violence

The memorialization of violence

Strategies of containment

Reflections on violence

The anthropology of memory and the anthropology of suffering

War, development, suffering

War/development, memory/narrative

9 The aesthetics of development

Vision and justice/visual justice; or, why should beauty be the province of only the rich?

The education of desire

Imagination and the erotics of development

The art of sustainability

The aesthetics of imperfection

10 Emotions of culture, social movementsand social transformation

Culture, emotions and social movements

Social movements, development and new knowledge

Culture and development revisited

References

Index

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