Includes bibliographical references.

Culture in development thinking : geographies, actors and paradigms / Sarah A. Radcliffe -- Culture, development and global neo-liberalism / Michael Watts -- Culture and conservation in post-conflict Africa : changing attitudes and approaches / Elizabeth E. Watson -- Indigenous groups, culturally appropriate development and the socio-spatial fix of Andean development / Sarah A. Radcliffe and Nina Laurie -- Laboring in the transnational culture mines : the work of Bolivian music in Japan / Michelle Bigenho -- Social capital and migration -- beyond ethnic economies / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Social capital as culture? Promoting co-operative action in Ghana / Gina Porter and Fergus Lyon -- On the spatial limits of culture in high-tech regional economic development: lessons from Salt Lake City, Utah / Al James -- Mobilizing culture for social justice and development : South Africa's Amazwi Abesifazane memory cloths program / Cheryl McEwan -- Conclusions: the future of culture and development / Sarah A. Radcliffe.

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Using recent research on development projects around the world, this book argues that culture has become an explicit tool and framework for development discourse and practice. Providing a theoretical and empirically informed critique, this informative book includes conceptual overviews and case studies on topics such as:development for indigenous peoplenatural resource managementsocial capital and global markets for Third World musicpost-apartheid South Africacultural difference in the USA's late capitalism. The edit.

English.

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