Culture and Development

Susanne Schech is Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management at Flinders University of South Australia. She is also Director of the Centre for Development Studies at Flinders University. She has published articles on gender and development, the social construction of whiteness and information technology in development NGOs.Jane Haggis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Flinders University of South Australia. She is also Associate Director of the Centre for Development Studies at Flinders University and has published a number of articles on gender and imperialism, social construction of whiteness and feminist research methodologies.

"...a well written and researched textbook for the turn of the millenium....refreshing, readable, topical and relevant." Elsbeth Robson, Keele University"Culture and Development is an important text for introductory nd midlevel undergraduate classes and development practitioners looking for a comprehensive, critical and interdisciplinary alternative to "business as usual"Economic Geography "Overall, the book is an excellent introduction to anthropological and development studies literature on representations, power and culture. While this literature boomed in the 1990s, its theoretical language and disciplinary dispersal made it difficult for students and practitioners to keep up with the debates. Culture and Development provides just such a readable account for student and teacher alike." Progress in Human Geography "Culture and development takes a wide-ranging, yet in-depth approach to its subject which lends it both coherence and authority. As an innovative introduction to these themes, this book is to be highly recommended." The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• List of Figures and Tables viiPreface: The Cross-overs of Culture and Development ix1 Investing in the Asian snake pit ix2 Culture and development xi3 Points of contact xii4 Outline of the book xiiiAcknowledgments xvii1 Thinking about Culture and Development 11 Overview and introduction 12 What do we mean by development? 23 What do we mean by culture? 164 Summary 292 Bringing Culture and Development Together 331 Introduction 332 Third World models of development 403 The crisis of development and the new neo-liberal hegemony 504 Summary 533 Globalization and the Politics of Representation 571 Introduction 572 Globalization, culture, and development 583 Postcolonial challenges 664 The deconstruction of development discourse 725 Problems of deconstruction 776 Hybrid modernities and post-development discourse 797 Summary 814 Feminism, Development, and Culture 851 Introduction 852 Women, development, and feminist development theory 873 Postcolonial feminisms and feminist development theory 1024 "Chucking the baby out with the bath water": counter-arguments 1095 Building bridges 1106 Summary 1135 Inventing Traditions, Constructing Nations 1181 Introduction 1182 Fixed traditions? 1213 Inventing traditions 1284 Contesting traditions 1365 Globalization and the politics of identity 1426 Summary 1506 Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Globalization 1541 Introduction 1542 The human rights discourse and the discourse of development 1583 Human needs and human rights -- a trade-off? 1624 Gender, cultural difference, and the universality of human rights 1715 Human rights of ethnic minority groups 1796 Summary 1887 Culture, Development, and the Information Revolution 1921 Introduction 1922 Media and modernity 1963 Cultural imperialism revisited 2024 Communication technologies, knowledge, and development discourse 2065 Communicating modernization 2086 Knowledge and development 2107 Wired for change 2148 Summary 216Index 220