Culture and Development A Critical Introduction

by Schech, Susanne; Haggis, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780631209515
• ISBN10: 0631209514
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation.

Author Biography

Susanne Schech is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management at Flinders University of South Australia. She is also Director of the Centre for Development Studies at Flinders University. She has published articles on gender and development, the social construction of whiteness and information technology in development NGOs.

Jane Haggis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia. She is also Associate Director of the Centre for Development Studies at Flinders University and has published a number of articles on gender and imperialism, social construction of whiteness and feminist research methodologies.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Preface: The Cross-overs of Culture and Development	ix
Investing in the Asian snake pit	ix
Culture and development	xi
Points of contact	xii
Outline of the book	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Thinking about Culture and Development	1	(32)
Overview and introduction	1	(1)
What do we mean by development?	2	(14)
What do we mean by culture?	16	(13)
Summary	29	(4)
Bringing Culture and Development Together	33	(24)
Introduction	33	(7)
Third World models of development	40	(10)
The crisis of development and the new neo-liberal hegemony	50	(3)
Summary	53	(4)
Globalization and the Politics of Representation	57	(28)
Introduction	57	(1)
Globalization, culture, and development	58	(8)
Postcolonial challenges	66	(6)
The deconstruction of development discourse	72	(5)
Problems of deconstruction	77	(2)
Hybrid modernities and post-development discourse	79	(2)
Summary	81	(4)
Feminism, Development, and Culture	85	(33)
Introduction	85	(2)
Women, development, and feminist development theory	87	(15)
Postcolonial feminisms and feminist development theory	102	(7)
``Chucking the baby out with the bath water'': counter-arguments	109	(1)
Building bridges	110	(3)
Summary	113	(5)
Inventing Traditions, Constructing Nations	118	(36)
Introduction	118	(3)
Fixed traditions?	121	(7)
Inventing traditions	128	(8)
Contesting traditions	136	(6)
Globalization and the politics of identity	142	(8)
Summary	150	(4)
Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Globalization	154	(38)
Introduction	154	(4)
The human rights discourse and the discourse of development	158	(4)
Human needs and human rights -- a trade-off?	162	(9)
Gender, cultural difference, and the universality of human rights	171	(8)
Human rights of ethnic minority groups	179	(9)
Summary	188	(4)
Culture, Development, and the Information Revolution	192	(28)
Introduction	192	(4)
Media and modernity	196	(6)
Cultural imperialism revisited	202	(4)
Communication technologies, knowledge, and development discourse	206	(2)
Communicating modernization	208	(2)
Knowledge and development	210	(4)
Wired for change	214	(2)
Summary	216	(4)
Index	220