Culture, Development and Social Theory

Download or read book Culture, Development and Social Theory written by John Clammer and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Any conception of post-capitalist society, he argues, requires cultural, as well as economic and political, dimensions.