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Culture, Development and Social Theory: Towards an Integrated Social Development
John Clammer
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Paperback. he author expertly argues that in the current world crisis it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; KCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Any conception of post-capitalist society, he argues, requires cultural, as well as economic and political, dimensions.
This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Any conception of post-capitalist society, he argues, requires cultural, as well as economic and political, dimensions.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780323145
SKU
V9781780323145
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About John Clammer
John Clammer is currently Visiting Professor of Development Sociology at the United Nations University, Tokyo, and is the author of numerous books.
Reviews for Culture, Development and Social Theory: Towards an Integrated Social Development
In an impressively wide-ranging study of fundamental existential issues, drawing on sources of critical thought from economic and philosophical anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, John Clammer provides a critically engaging analysis of pressing social, economic and environmental concerns which radically reconstitutes our understanding of development and simultaneously demonstrates the progressive political possibilities provided by a profoundly recast cultural turn. This ... Read more