An edition of Culture and global change
(1999)
Culture and global change
by Tim Allen
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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.
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Table of Contents
Culture and global change : an introduction / Tracey Skelton and Tim Allen
Classic conceptions of culture / Peter Worsley
Globalised culture : the triumph of the West? / John Tomlinson
Culture and development theory / Peter Worsley
Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress / Alan Thomas
Local knowledges and changing technologies / Gordon Wilson
Understanding health / Murray Last
Finding the right image : British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery / Henrietta Lidchi
Representations of conflict in the Western media : the manufacture of a barbaric periphery / Philippa Atkinson
Sex tourism : the complexities of power / Jan Jindy Pettman
The city and identity : news frames and the representation of London and Londoners in the Evening standard / Jenny Owen
Culture as ideology : explanations for the development of the Japanese economic miracle / Roger Goodman
Cultural disease and British industrial decline : Weber in reverse / Mike Hickox
Ethnicity / John Eade and Tim Allen
Local forms of resistance : weapons of the weak / Hazel Johnson
'The people's radio' of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida : alternative communication and cultures of resistance in Brazil / Vivian Schelling
The new migrants : 'flexible workers' in a global economy / Chris J. Martin
The West, its Other and human rights / Rolando Gaete
Female circumcision and cultures of sexuality / Melissa Parker
Street lives and family lives in Brazil / Tom Hewitt and Ines Smyth
Religion and political transformation / Jeff Haynes
Religion and development / Parvati Raghuram
Paying the price of femininity : women and the New Hinduism / Dina Abbott
Whose game is it anyway? West Indies cricket and post-colonial cultural globalism / Hilary McD. Beckles
Bollywood versus Hollywood : battle of the dream factories / Heather Tyrrell
Mimicking Mammon? What future for the post-communist Russian film industry? / Kate Hudson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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