List of illustrations |
Acknowledgements |
Culture and global change: an introduction / Tracey Skelton ; Tim Allen |
Culture and development / Part I: |
Classic conceptions of culture / Peter Worsley |
Globalised culture: the triumph of the West? / John Tomlinson |
Culture and development theory |
Questioning cultural assumptions / Part II: |
Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress |
Alan Thomas : Local knowledges and changing technologies / Gordon Wilson |
Understanding health / Murray Last |
Representations and cultural commodification / Part III: |
Finding the right image: British development NGOs and the regulation of imagery / Henrietta Lidchi |
Representations of conflict in the Western media: the manufacture of a barbaric periphery / Philippa Atkinson |
Sex tourism: the complexities of power / Jan Jindy Pettman |
The city and identity: news frames and the representation of London and Londoners in the Evening Standard / Jenny Owen |
Culture as explanation / Part IV: |
Culture as ideology: explanations for the development of the Japanese economic miracle / Roger Goodman |
Cultural disease and British industrial decline |
Weber in reverse / Mike Hickox |
Ethnicity / John Eade |
Culture and resistance / Part V: |
Local forms of resistance: weapons of the weak / Hazel Johnson |
'The people's radio' of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida |
Alternative communication and cultures of resistance in / Brazil ; Vivian Schelling |
The new migrants: 'flexible workers' in a global economy / Chris J. Martin |
Culture and human rights / Part VI: |
The West, its Other and human rights / Rolando Gaete |
Female circumcision and cultures of sexuality / Melissa Parker |
Street lives and family lives in Brazil / Tom Hewitt ; Ines Smyth |
Religion, culture and politics / Part VII: |
Religion and political transformation / Jeff Haynes |
Religion and development / Parvati Raghuram |
Paying the price of femininity: women and the New Hinduism / Dina Abbott |
Culture as product: culture as pleasure / Part VIII: |
Whose game is it anyway? West Indies cricket and post-colonial cultural globalism / Hilary McD. Beckles |
Bollywood versus Hollywood: battle of the dream factories / Heather Tyrrell |
Mimicking mammon? What future for the post-communist Russian film industry? / Kate Hudson |
References |
Index |
List of illustrations |
Acknowledgements |
Culture and global change: an introduction / Tracey Skelton ; Tim Allen |