Culture & Development

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This book offers perspectives by Africans on the idea of cultural studies in Africa. The percpectives are both local and global, native and diasporic. This book was published as a special issue of Cultural Studies...

This innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates in development studies by introducing new ways of conceptualizing art in relation to development. It shows how the arts and development are related in very practical ways – as means to achieve de..

Community-Built: Art, Construction, Preservation, and Place describes community-built practices through several international and cross-disciplinary case studies...

Drawing together perspectives from artists, policy-makers and researchers in the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and Europe, this book explores the challenges and opportunities of supporting the arts in the development context. It provides a series of grounded analyses of the artist/donor interface, ..

Although the world is saturated with extraordinary methods, innovation, and technology, the Caribbean seems to have been left behind in the substantive growth of global development. While the majority of the world defines the Caribbean as "paradise," the reality of life for Afro-Caribbean culture is..

This book explores the interfaces between nature and culture through the perspective of cultural sustainability. It focuses on the nature-culture interface conceptualised as a meeting-place where experiences, practices, policies, ideas and knowledges meet, are negotiated, discussed and resolved...

Culturally Responsive Education: Reflections from the Global South and North examines culturally responsive education’s contribution to sustainable development and explores ways in which educational practitioners respond to cultures in and around educational contexts._x005F_x000D_ This book argues t..

The North Atlantic development establishment has had an unenviable track record over the past 65 years. The few economic success stories in the developing world, such as South Korea and China, have been achieved by not taking the advice of Western experts. Still, debates within mainstream developmen..

As culture is becoming increasingly recognised as a crucial element of sustainable development, design competence has emerged as useful tool in creating a meaningful life within a sustainable mental, cultural and physical environment._x005F_x000D_ Design for a Sustainable Culture explores the relati..

Based on multi-sited anthropological fieldwork, this book describes how various governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental actors engage with colonial and post-colonial built heritage found in Eritrea, Tanzania, Niger and the Republic of the Congo, showing how this engagement produces prob..

This collection brings together world-renowned and early-career scholars in the first in-depth empirical examination of on-the-ground responses to land grabbing in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book was first published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies...