Development

This book of readings gathers together some of the most influential contributions that reflect on the relationship between culture and development.

Acknowledgments. 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.