Culture and Global Changepresents 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.

List of illustrations

ix

Notes on contributors

xi

Acknowledgements

xv

Culture and global change: an introduction

1

(10)

Tracey Skelton

Tim Allen

I CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT

11

(32)

Classic conceptions of culture

13

(9)

Peter Worsley

Globalised culture: the triumph of the West?

22

(8)

John Tomlinson

Culture and development theory

30

(13)

Peter Worsley

II QUESTIONING CULTURAL ASSUMPTIONS

43

(42)

Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress

45

(13)

Alan Thomas

Local knowledges and changing technologies

58

(12)

Gordon Wilson

Understanding health

70

(15)

Murray Last

III REPRESENTATIONS AND CULTURAL COMMODIFICATION

85

(40)

Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery

87

(15)

Henrietta Lidchi

Representations of conflict in the Western media: the manufacture of a barbaric periphery

102

(7)

Philippa Atkinson

Sex tourism: the complexities of power

109

(8)

Jan Jindy Pettman

The city and identity: news frames and the representation of London and Londoners in the Evening Standard

117

(8)

Jenny Owen

IV CULTURE AS EXPLANATION

125

(32)

Culture as ideology: explanations for the development of the Japanese economic miracle

127

(10)

Roger Goodman

Cultural disease and British industrial decline: Weber in reverse

137

(8)

Mike Hickox

Ethnicity

145

(12)

John Eade

Tim Allen

V CULTURE AND RESISTANCE

157

(34)

Local forms of resistance: weapons of the weak

159

(8)

Hazel Johnson

`The people's radio' of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida: alternative communication and cultures of resistance in Brazil

167

(13)

Vivian Schelling

The new migrants: `flexible workers' in a global economy

180

(11)

Chris J. Martin

VI CULTURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

191

(30)

The West, its Other and human rights

193

(8)

Rolando Gaete

Female circumcision and cultures of sexuality

201

(11)

Melissa Parker

Street lives and family lives in Brazil

212

(9)

Tom Hewitt

Ines Smyth

VII RELIGION, CULTURE AND POLITICS

221

(28)

Religion and political transformation

223

(9)

Jeff Haynes

Religion and development

232

(8)

Parvati Raghuram

Paying the price of femininity: women and the New Hinduism

240

(9)

Dina Abbott

VIII CULTURE AS PRODUCT: CULTURE AS PLEASURE

249

(33)

Whose game is it anyway? West Indies cricket and post-colonial cultural globalism

251

(9)

Hilary McD. Beckles

Bollywood versus Hollywood: battle of the dream factories

260

(14)

Heather Tyrrell

Mimicking Mammon? What future for the post-communist Russian film industry?

274

(8)

Kate Hudson

References

282

(26)

Index

308

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