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Community, by Seyla Benhabib
Author : World Institute for Development Economics Research
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198289170
Community, by Seyla Benhabib
Author : Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178360641X
Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South. Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, applying it to issues ranging from sexuality and the gendered body to the environment, technology and the cultural politics of representation. This revised and updated edition brings together leading academics, as well as a new generation of activists and scholars, to provide a fresh perspective on the ways in which women in the South are transforming our understanding of development.
Author : Robert Klitgaard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0197517730
"This book is a manifesto for building on diverse cultural strengths in international development. Gently but firmly, it demonstrates how and why cultural studies and anthropology have fallen short in application-and, arguably, in terms of social science. Nonetheless, anthropology and cultural studies have much to offer, as the book shows through lively examples ranging from West Africa to South Sudan, from Haïti to Hawai'i, from Nepal to Native America. Anthropology can provide distinctive information and compelling descriptions, case studies of successful adaptation and resistance, the deconstruction of cultural texts, useful checklists, and processes for combining outside expertise and local knowledge. Beyond the important task of identifying how cultural features interact with particular projects, The Culture and Development Manifesto displays new ways to think about goals (and risks), new kinds of alternatives, new and perhaps métisse ways to implement, and, as a result, new kinds of politics"--
Author : Birgit Pfau-Effinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351944711
This refreshing volume introduces a theory for explaining cross-national differences in the social practice of women (and men) in the areas of family and employment. This provides a theoretical framework for the ensuing comprehensive cross-national analysis of the degree and forms of labour market integration of women in three European countries - Finland, West Germany and the Netherlands - from the 1950s until 2000. Cross-national differences are explained with a focus on cultural change and the development of welfare state, labour markets, the family and social movements. It is evident that change took place along different development paths that were based on deep-rooted historical differences in the cultural ideals of the family. Such historical differences and their explanations also form part of the analysis. The results of this survey contribute to the further development of cross-national sociology on social change, social and gender inequality, welfare state, labour markets and family structures.
Author : Sylvia Chant
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 11,89 MB
Release : 1995-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745309453
'[A]n accessible introduction to models and theories of human nature and how they inform our professional practice' Professional Social Work
Author : Susanne Schech
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2000-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780631209508
This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation.
Author : Jimoh Shehu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Africa
ISBN : 286978306X
Drawing on various theories and cross-cultural data, the contributors to this volume highlight the various ways in which sport norms, policies, practices and representations pervasively interface with gender and other socially constructed categories of difference. They argue that sport is not only a site of competition and physical recreation, but also a crossroad where features of modern society such as hegemony, identities, democracy, technology, development and master statuses intertwine and bifurcate. As they point out in many ways, sport production, reproduction, distribution and consumption are relational, spatial and contextual and, therefore, do not pay off for men, women and other social groups equally. The authors draw attention to the structure and scope of efforts needed to transform the exclusionary and gendered nature of sport processes to make them adequate to the task of engendering Africa's development. --
Author : Cindy Maguire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000548902
This book explores the role that arts and culture can play in supporting global international development. The book argues that arts and culture are fundamental to human development and can bring considerable positive results for helping to empower communities and provide new ways of looking at social transformation. Whilst most literature addresses culture in abstract terms, this book focuses on practice-based, collective, community-focused, sustainability-minded, and capacity-building examples of arts and development. The book draws on case studies from around the world, investigating the different ways practitioners are imagining or defining the role of arts and culture in Belize, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kosovo, Malawi, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, the USA, and Western Sahara refugee camps in Algeria. The book highlights the importance of situated practice, asking what questions or concerns practitioners have and inviting a dialogic sharing of resources and possibilities across different contexts. Seeking to highlight practices and conversations outside normative frameworks of understanding, this book will be a breath of fresh air to practitioners, policy makers, students, and researchers from across the fields of global development, social work, art therapy, and visual and performing arts education.
Author : Fanny M. Cheung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1552 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108602185
There is a growing knowledge base in understanding the differences and similarities between women and men, as well as the diversities among women and sexualities. Although genetic and biological characteristics define human beings conventionally as women and men, their experiences are contextualized in multiple dimensions in terms of gender, sexuality, class, age, ethnicity, and other social dimensions. Beyond the biological and genetic basis of gender differences, gender intersects with culture and other social locations which affect the socialization and development of women across their life span. This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource to understand the intersectionality of gender differences, to dispel myths, and to examine gender-relevant as well as culturally relevant implications and appropriate interventions. Featuring a truly international mix of contributors, and incorporating cross-cultural research and comparative perspectives, this handbook will inform mainstream psychology of the international literature on the psychology of women and gender.
Author : Susan Perry
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781856498470
Focusing on seven crucial debates in the field of gender and development, this compilation shows why development policy must respond to cultural differences and illustrates the rewards of doing so.