Culture and Development in a Globalising World: Geographies, by Sarah A. Radcliffe

By Sarah A. Radcliffe

Utilizing contemporary examine on improvement initiatives around the globe, this publication argues that tradition has turn into an specific device and framework for improvement discourse and perform. supplying a theoretical and empirically knowledgeable critique, this informative booklet comprises conceptual overviews and case stories on issues akin to: improvement for indigenous humans usual source administration social capital and worldwide markets for 3rd international tune post-apartheid South Africa cultural distinction within the USA’s past due capitalism. The editor concludes by means of comparing the results of development’s ‘cultural turn’, providing a framework for destiny paintings during this box. via combining case reports from either ‘Third international’ and ‘First international’ nations, the e-book, perfect for these within the fields of geography, tradition and improvement reports, increases leading edge questions on the ‘transferability’ of notions of tradition the world over, and the kinds of actors concerned.

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By Sarah A. Radcliffe

Utilizing contemporary examine on improvement initiatives around the globe, this publication argues that tradition has turn into an specific device and framework for improvement discourse and perform. supplying a theoretical and empirically knowledgeable critique, this informative booklet comprises conceptual overviews and case stories on issues akin to: improvement for indigenous humans usual source administration social capital and worldwide markets for 3rd international tune post-apartheid South Africa cultural distinction within the USA’s past due capitalism. The editor concludes by means of comparing the results of development’s ‘cultural turn’, providing a framework for destiny paintings during this box. via combining case reports from either ‘Third international’ and ‘First international’ nations, the e-book, perfect for these within the fields of geography, tradition and improvement reports, increases leading edge questions on the ‘transferability’ of notions of tradition the world over, and the kinds of actors concerned.

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They highlight the ways in which culture comes together with development across multiple scales and in relation to diverse actors, institutions, and imaginaries of desirability. Michael Watts’ chapter provides an overview of development’s history since 1945, and how culture has played a constitutive role in development changing over time with shifting development paradigms and varying expectations about the cultural economies of developing societies. Development theory has always borne the traces of culture and a theory of the modern.

Paradigms of Andean indigenous development rely heavily on the assumption that Indian groups have high levels of social capital but lack other forms of capital. Two chapters here engage critically with the concept of social capital, which has underpinned several culture and development policy initiatives and development thinking in many areas of the global South. Jan Nederveen Pieterse’s chapter asks how social capital relates to cultural difference, questioning the standard account of social capital as being culturally bounded.

Radcliffe in which the projects work out on the ground in the context of a post-conflict society living with a new constitution and urgent environmental issues. Indigenous people in Latin America have long been perceived by their co-nationals and external observers as having distinctive cultures, yet due to their political and sociocultural marginalization from national development processes in the region, these cultures have often been treated as historic relics that would disappear with modernity.

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