Culture and Development

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