Culture and Global Change

by Allen, Tim; Skelton, Tracey

• ISBN13: 9780203984123
• ISBN10: 0203984129
• Copyright: 1999-09-09
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

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 who each explore a particular aspect of 'culture' and the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in throughout 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Culture and global change: an introduction

Culture and development

Classic conceptions of culture

Globalised culture: the triumph of the West?

Culture and development theory

Questioning cultural assumptions

Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress

Alan Thomas : Local knowledges and changing technologies

Understanding health

Representations and cultural commodification

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

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

Sex tourism: the complexities of power

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

Culture as explanation

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

Cultural disease and British industrial decline

Weber in reverse

Ethnicity

Culture and resistance

Local forms of resistance: weapons of the weak

'The people's radio' of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida

Alternative communication and cultures of resistance in

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

Culture and human rights

The West, its Other and human rights

Female circumcision and cultures of sexuality

Street lives and family lives in Brazil

Religion, culture and politics

Religion and political transformation

Religion and development

Paying the price of femininity: women and the New Hinduism

Culture as product: culture as pleasure

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

Bollywood versus Hollywood: battle of the dream factories

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

References

Index

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