This book of readings gathers together some of the most influential contributions that reflect on the relationship between culture and development.Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Pathways to culture and development: Jane Haggis and Susanne Schech.
Part I: Modernizing Cultures:.
1. The Grocer and the Theif: A Parable: Daniel Lerner.
2. Modernization Ideals: Gunnar Myrdal.
3. A Universal Civilization? Modernization and Westernization: Samuel P Huntington.
4. Divided Market Cultures in China. Gender, Enterprise and Religion: Robert P Weller.
Part II: Culture/Power/Knowledge:.
5. Orientalism: Edward W Said.
6. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power: Stuart Hall.
7. Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century: Sander L Gilman.
Part III: Development as Discourse:.
8. The Problematisation of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development: Arturo Escobar.
9. The Constitution of the Object of Development - Lesotho as a Less Developed Country : James Ferguson.
10. Becoming a Development Category: Nanda Shrestha.
11. Knowledge for Development: The World Bank.
Part IV: Development Culture and Human Rights:.
12. Universalism, Particularism and the Question of Identity: Ernesto Laclau.
13. Human Rights as Cultural Practice: Ann Belinda Preis.
14. Women's Rights, Human Rights and Domestic Violence in Vanuatu: Margaret Jolly.
Part V: Global/Local:.
15. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Arjun Appadurai.
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