Culture and global change
By: [edited by] Tracey Skelton and Tim Allen.
Contributors: Skelton, Tracey, 1962-; Allen, Tim, 1956-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Culture.; Social change.; Economic development.
Description: Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field which each offer thier own particular take on 'culture' and explore the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in different parts of the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of 'Third World' cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA and the UK, this book considers the relationship between culture and development within a truly global context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture and global change : an introduction / Tracey Skelton and Tim Allen; title: Classic conceptions of culture / Peter Worsley; title: Globalised culture : the triumph of the West? / John Tomlinson; title: Culture and development theory / Peter Worsley; title: Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress / Alan Thomas; title: Local knowledges and changing technologies / Gordon Wilson; title: Understanding health / Murray Last; title: Finding the right image : British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery / Henrietta Lidchi; title: Representations of conflict in the Western media : the manufacture of a barbaric periphery / Philippa Atkinson; title: Sex tourism : the complexities of power / Jan Jindy Pettman; title: The city and identity : news frames and the representation of London and Londoners in the Evening standard / Jenny Owen; title: Culture as ideology : explanations for the development of the Japanese economic miracle / Roger Goodman; title: Cultural disease and British industrial decline : Weber in reverse / Mike Hickox; title: Ethnicity / John Eade and Tim Allen; title: Local forms of resistance : weapons of the weak / Hazel Johnson; title: 'The people's radio' of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida : alternative communication and cultures of resistance in Brazil / Vivian Schelling; title: The new migrants : 'flexible workers' in a global economy / Chris J. Martin; title: The West, its Other and human rights / Rolando Gaete; title: Female circumcision and cultures of sexuality / Melissa Parker; title: Street lives and family lives in Brazil / Tom Hewitt and Ines Smyth; title: Religion and political transformation / Jeff Haynes; title: Religion and development / Parvati Raghuram; title: Paying the price of femininity : women and the New Hinduism / Dina Abbott; title: Whose game is it anyway? West Indies cricket and post-colonial cultural globalism / Hilary McD. Beckles; title: Bollywood versus Hollywood : battle of the dream factories / Heather Tyrrell; title: Mimicking Mammon? What future for the post-communist Russian film industry? / Kate Hudson.