Culture and Global Change

"An excellent introduction to Globalisation" Kenneth Jones, Queen Margaret College'This book is crucial in bringing arguments from other disciplines to a development studies audienceI would have no hesitation in recommending this title as an undergraduate text book for students on courses with a development studies, cultural studies or globalisation focus.' - Dan Knox, Progress in Development Studies 2(2)

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsCulture and global change: an introduction, Tracey Skelton and Tim AllenPart I: Culture and development ; Classic conceptions of culture, Peter Worsley; Globalised culture: the triumph of the West?, John Tomlinson; Culture and development theory, Peter WorsleyPart II: Questioning cultural assumptions ; Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress, Alan Thomas: Local knowledges and changing technologies, Gordon Wilson; Understanding health, Murray LastPart 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 OwenPart 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. MartinPart 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 HudsonReferencesIndex