Culture, Development, and Social Theory

On Cultural Studies and the Place of Culture in Development

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2174455
AutoresJohn Clammer (0000-0003-3222-9582, Sophia University, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume6
Fascículo2
Páginas100-119
Data de publicação2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442210500168218
OpenAlexW2027083774
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas38

Debates in development theory have recently swung back to taking seriously the relationship of culture to development, especially in the face of manifest failures of conventional approaches to economic growth and social transformation. This has happened at a moment when, especially within anthropology, the concept of culture itself is undergoing critical examination, and when cultural studies has emerged as a major challenge to anthropology's self-defined specialisation in the social-scientific analysis of culture. Few attempts have been made, however, to relate cultural studies and development studies, despite the fact that the relatively recent ‘cultural turn’ in the social sciences has derived largely from the currently fashionable status of cultural studies and its multidisciplinary nature. This paper explores this relationship and suggests that a cultural studies approach, despite its weaknesses, potentially revitalises the significance of culture in relationship to development

Anthropology of art · Culture theory · Ecological anthropology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Multidisciplinary approach · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · History · Philosophy · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development