Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Preface: The Cross-overs of Culture and Development ix
1 Investing in the Asian snake pit ix
2 Culture and development xi
3 Points of contact xii
4 Outline of the book xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Thinking about Culture and Development 1
1 Overview and introduction 1
2 What do we mean by development? 2
3 What do we mean by culture? 16
4 Summary 29
2 Bringing Culture and Development Together 33
1 Introduction 33
2 Third World models of development 40
3 The crisis of development and the new neo-liberal hegemony 50
4 Summary 53
3 Globalization and the Politics of Representation 57
1 Introduction 57
2 Globalization, culture, and development 58
3 Postcolonial challenges 66
4 The deconstruction of development discourse 72
5 Problems of deconstruction 77
6 Hybrid modernities and post-development discourse 79
7 Summary 81
4 Feminism, Development, and Culture 85
1 Introduction 85
2 Women, development, and feminist development theory 87
3 Postcolonial feminisms and feminist development theory 102
4 "Chucking the baby out with the bath water": counter-arguments 109
5 Building bridges 110
6 Summary 113
5 Inventing Traditions, Constructing Nations 118
1 Introduction 118
2 Fixed traditions? 121
3 Inventing traditions 128
4 Contesting traditions 136
5 Globalization and the politics of identity 142
6 Summary 150
6 Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Globalization 154
1 Introduction 154
2 The human rights discourse and the discourse of development 158
3 Human needs and human rights — a trade-off? 162
4 Gender, cultural difference, and the universality of human rights 171
5 Human rights of ethnic minority groups 179
6 Summary 188
7 Culture, Development, and the Information Revolution 192
1 Introduction 192
2 Media and modernity 196
3 Cultural imperialism revisited 202
4 Communication technologies, knowledge, and development discourse 206
5 Communicating modernization 208
6 Knowledge and development 210
7 Wired for change 214
8 Summary 216
Index 220
