Culture and Global Change

There continues to be a growing interest in questions relating to development and the Third World. With expansion of travel, greater media coverage and new demands from academics for a rethinking of development mechanisms, the Third World has become an area of increasing interest. Culture and Global Change explores aspects of culture and development at a time of rapid global change. Leading contributors engage with the current debate on the importance of culture to development discourse and the Third World, stressing that if development is to have real meaning and value at the local level, there must be a qualitative understanding of the complexities and dynamics of everyday lives. Culture and Global Change explores concepts of culture across the broader issues of development and in so doing shows that development will not be successful unless it is an integral part of existing cultural and social relations. Peter Worsley, John Tomlinson, John Taylor, Alan Thomas, Dina Abbott, David Wield, Gordon Wilson, Jonathan Benthall, Henrietta Lydchie, Tom Hewitt, Chris Martin, Andy Mawson, Hazel Johnson, Jeff Hayne

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List of illustrations Acknowledgements Culture and global change: an introduction, Tracey Skelton and Tim Allen Part I: Culture and development; Classic conceptions of culture, Peter Worsley; Globalised culture: the triumph of the West?, John Tomlinson; Culture and development theory, Peter Worsley Part II: Questioning cultural assumptions; Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress, Alan Thomas: Local knowledges and changing technologies, Gordon Wilson; Understanding health, Murray Last Part III: Representations and cultural commodification; 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 Part IV: Culture as explanation; 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 Part V: Culture and resistance; 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 Part VI: Culture and human rights; 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 Part VII: Religion, culture and politics; Religion and political transformation, Jeff Haynes; Religion and development, Parvati Raghuram; Paying the price of femininity: women and the New Hinduism, Dina Abbott Part VIII: Culture as product: culture as pleasure; 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 References Index

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