Culture, Development and Social Theory

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Culture, Development and Social Theory is written by John Clammer and published by Zed Books Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1780323174 (ISBN 10) and 9781780323176 (ISBN 13).

This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The author expertly argues that in the current world crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Any conception of post-capitalist society, he argues, requires cultural, as well as economic and political, dimensions.