Development: A Cultural Studies ReaderISBN: 978-0-631-21916-3
Hardcover
392 pages
June 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction: Pathways to culture and development: Jane Haggis and Susanne Schech.
Part I: Modernizing Cultures:.
1. The Grocer and the Theif: A Parable: Daniel Lerner.
2. Modernization Ideals: Gunnar Myrdal.
3. A Universal Civilization? Modernization and Westernization: Samuel P Huntington.
4. Divided Market Cultures in China. Gender, Enterprise and Religion: Robert P Weller.
Part II: Culture/Power/Knowledge:.
5. Orientalism: Edward W Said.
6. The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power: Stuart Hall.
7. Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century: Sander L Gilman.
Part III: Development as Discourse:.
8. The Problematisation of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development: Arturo Escobar.
9. The Constitution of the Object of "Development" - Lesotho as a "Less Developed Country": James Ferguson.
10. Becoming a Development Category: Nanda Shrestha.
11. Knowledge for Development: The World Bank.
Part IV: Development Culture and Human Rights:.
12. Universalism, Particularism and the Question of Identity: Ernesto Laclau.
13. Human Rights as Cultural Practice: Ann Belinda Preis.
14. Women's Rights, Human Rights and Domestic Violence in Vanuatu: Margaret Jolly.
Part V: Global/Local:.
15. Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy: Arjun Appadurai.
16. Capitalisms, Crises and Cultures II: Notes on Local Transformation and Everyday Cultural Struggles: Alan Pred.
17. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East: Jane A Margold.
18. Learning to be Local in Belize. Global Systems of Commom Difference: Richard Wilk.
Part VI: Place and Space:.
19. Geography as Destiny: Cities, Villages and Khmer Rouge Orientalism: Kevin McIntyre.
20. Contesting Cultures: Westernization, Respect for Cultures and Third-World Feminists: Uma Narayan.
21. Gender, Place and Networks. A Political Ecology of Cyberculture: Arturo Escobar.
22. Maya Hackers and the Cyberspatialized Nation-State: Modernity, Ethnostalgia and a Lizard Queen in Guatemala: Diane M Nelson.
23. CyberResistance: Saudi Opposition Between Globalization and Localization: Mamoun Fandy.
Part VII: Multiple Modernities:.
24. The Invention of Tradition Revisited: The Case of Colonial Africa: Terence Ranger.
25. Contentious Traditions: The Debate of Sati in Colonial India: Lata Mani.
26. "When the Earth is Female and the Nation is Mother". Gender, the Armed Forces and Nationalism in Indonesia: Saraswati Sunindyo.
27. The Objects of Soap Opera: Egyptian Television and the Cultural Politics of Modernity: Lila Abu-Lughod.
28. The Credible and the Credulous: The Question of "Villagers' Beliefs" in Nepal: Stacy Leigh Pigg.
29. Modernizing the Malay Mother: Maila Stivens.
Index.