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This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about culture and development. The book integrates the recent scholarship in the area of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation. Rather than viewing culture as simply an attribute of the societies undergoing development, this text critically examines how development itself operates as a cultural process. The authors draw on theories of modernity, poststructuralism and post-colonial studies to show how development institutions, processes and practices are inevitably caught up in a web of cultural presuppositions, values and meanings.The authors use the themes of gender, tradition and identity, human rights and new communication technologies to explore the challenges that processes of cultural change pose to conventional understandings of development. The book concludes by considering the move beyond development to a post-development paradigm.The book is made up of thematic chapters which include outlines and overviews of the specific topics, as well as case studies to illustrate the issues. The authors have designed the book specifically for students and teachers and the material included has been class-tested during their own teaching.
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Global Issues: An Introduction
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The new edition of this text has been fully updated throughout and features expanded sections on issues such as global warming, biotechnology, and energy.Global Issues is an introduction to the nature and background of some of the central issues - economic, social, political, environmental - of modern times. It will provide the basis for a stimulating course for beginning students in departments of geography, politics, sociology and environmental science. The book opens with an overview of the complex political, cultural and natural origins of world problems and of why some nations are rich and some are poor. The author then discusses in depth such issues as population growth, hunger, the extinction of species, global warming and climatic change, ozone depletion, energy conservation, deforestation, and the misuse of technology.The book covers a range of perspectives on a variety of societies, developed and developing. The author writes clearly, stressing the need, by argument and by exemplification, for informed, critical thinking. Students are shown both the decisions that have been made - and the resulting failures and successes - and the choices that must now be faced if crucial problems are to be solved.The book is extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs, contains guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and includes suggestions for discussion and studying the material.
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Excellent one volume intro to how all the issues connect........1999-05-04
I used this book as text for high school "Global Studies" courses, and thought it was terrific in its understandable but not watered down treatment of the big issues -- war, hunger, women's rights, population, environment, etc. Shows how these issues relate to each other. It was a stretch for 9th graders, but would be perfect for high school seniors or college intro.
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Third World Cities is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of a classic text which examines urbanisation in developing areas. Using case studies of cities drawn from around the world, David Smith confronts three main questions: Is there still a Third World, does it have a common urban form and what is the relationship between urbanisation and sustainability? This text provides an invaulable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World.
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- Development ideas for the 3rd world
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Introduction to the Sociology of Development
Andrew Webster
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This text provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest debates in the sociology of development, linking theoretical and empirical issues of social change primarily though not exclusively through reference to the Third World. This book covers general conceptions of modernisation and underdevelopment and points to new attempts at their synthesis as well as exploring the policy implications of different development models.
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Development ideas for the 3rd world.......2005-10-29
I discovered this book in a book store in Kampala, Uganda. My family and I were in Uganda as volunteers working at a children's center for orphans in the bush 2 hours from Kampala. I arrived in Uganda thinking that all we (the first world) needed to do was to help the local people to grow cash crops and move into a productive, healthy and happy life.
I was in Uganda for a little over a year before I purchased this book. In this book Webster explained many of the ideas and thoughts that were churning in my mind as I lived in a 3rd world country and saw the difficulties that the Ugandan people had in making even a subsistence living. I saw the difficulties of cultural differences between the tribes themselves. I was wondering how all these thoughts and experiences could be brought together in a logical manner when I read this small, but powerful book.
Andrew Webster says that the solution to poverty is not just more; more money, more big business, more aid and more bureaucracy. But an intelligent approach that considers the cultural dynamics of the community along with the use of economic tools. He pointed out that if a work method or a product is introduced a community that has strong negative cultural implications, the project will fail. Not because the people are lazy or stupid, but because they believed all their lives that such activity was wrong or beneath them or else it violated some community taboo. For instance, if ox plowing is introduced in a community that believes that only the "other" tribe that are herdsmen handle oxen and that the "other" tribe is below their tribe, it will be very difficult to get the local people to try ox plowing. Webster makes the very logical point that successful development must consider the cultural environment in which the development is meant to take place.
As Webster talked about the modernization theory, I could see the large tea plantations along the highways in Uganda and I have walked the empty fields where cotton once grew as a cash crop and seen the dilapidated cotton ginnery that was once the pride of a British company long since departed. Webster tells how foreign governments put colonies around the world, not to better the local people, but to generate raw materials for their own industrial machines back home. He echoed what I had been hearing from a local agricultural missionary that was adamant that we should not be training the local farmers to grow cash crops but rather to grow local subsistence crops that can be used by the local community for food if the world price drops for the commodity. After reading this book, I realized that the local farmer can not eat cotton if he can not sell it on the foreign market. That such crops are good for the local farmer only so long as there is a market at reasonable prices for the product. But when that market collapses because the foreign government and corporations are stimulating that product in many other locations and thus a glut of the product hits the market and the price plummets, the local farmer is wiped out. He can not repay the loans that he made to buy the seeds and clear the land. Not only can he not repay the loans, but he also can not feed his family since cotton is not very digestible.
Finally, the single most important point I took away from this book is that the best development is training and enabling local people to raise local crops or provide local services to be consumed in the local market. Small is beautiful as Webster says quoting E.F. Schumacher. This book was instrumental in helping me to focus my thinking on how third world development should be done and to better understand the reality that I was experiencing in Uganda.
This is a very good book for anyone that wants a clear understanding of why we have spent so much money on third world development and yet gotten such lackluster results over the decades. The book has many references to other writers and thinkers in the field of development and is a good starting point for further in-depth reading on this very interesting subject. But most important of all, it lays out a reasonable and rational blueprint of what we must do if we are to make an impact on poverty and come up with some real solutions that will at least help alleviate poverty in some communities, if not the entire third world, in our lifetime.
Tom Herskowitz
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This book draws upon data and theories from economics, political science, anthropology, demography, and environmental studies to provide a broad interdisciplinary overview of the Third World. A brief history shows how the expansion of Europe in the 15th century created dependencies in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Third World is shown to be not a "natural" or innate phenomenon, but a consequence of its relationship to the First World that involved economic dependency, rapid population growth, inflated and internationally supplied militaries, and governments trying to provide attractive investment climates for huge multinational corporations. Human rights violations, environmental degradation, the demographic transition, traditional agriculture, world markets, and export policies are examined in a balanced theoretical approach which is aimed at a synthesis of modernization and dependency approaches.
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Theatre for Development: An Introduction to Context, Applications and Training
Kees Epskamp
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The Theatre for Development (TFD) is a learning strategy in which theatre is used to encourage communities to express their own concerns and think about the causes of their problems and possible solutions. This overview contributes to both the theory and practice of Theatre for Development. The author contextualises it historically within the evolving range of development theories, strategies and practices, notably including the now widely accepted notion of participatory approaches to achieving social change.
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More Urban, Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development and Management
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The world is undergoing massive urbanization: now topping three billion of the world’s six billion people and projected to increase to four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within twenty-five years. The impacts and development challenges posed by historic shift are of equal magnitude and include growing slums; lack of access to adequate water, sanitation and utilities; challenges to transport, employment, education; and dramatic effects on human well being and the environment.
This full colour textbook, written for students and development practitioners, covers the full breadth and depth of the challenges in urban development in developing and transitional countries and makes sense of this complex and important field. Written in an accessible style, the book covers the key issues in urban development including how cities grow, economic development, urban poverty, slums, housing and land tenure, environmental problems and health, obstacles to development, the management and governance of urban growth, the finance and delivery of services as well as the role of development cooperation and policy frameworks in overcoming the challenges. Also included are dozens of easy-to-read tables and graphs that summarize key data and photographs illustrating salient points as well as sources of additional reading and information on key areas.
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World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agricultural production increases and genetic engineering revolutionizes food production and distribution. Illustrating the diversity of diets in the world and the connections between the global and local in numerous case studies, Young asserts that contrasting material realities of North and South hemispheres are very similar--the misconception that hunger "over there" is unconnected to conditions "over here" is exposed. Globalization and access to food in the global supermarket is also examined.
Explaining the essential political character of hunger, the author exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged and it becomes possible to envisage a world where hunger is history.
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Explaining the essential political character of hunger, Young exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged, making a world where hunger is history foreseeable.
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- Women and Development in the Third World
- An eye-opening look at women in development
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Women and Development in the Third World (Routledge Introductions to Development)
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For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World, the effects of this position are exacerbated by the legacy of colonialism, economic crisis, and patriarchal attitudes. Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development can only be achieved through a radical restructuring of the process of development. Now, the universal validity of both gender-neutral development theory and the feminist concepts of the post-industrial world are being questioned. In this book, Janet Momsen presents ten worldwide case studies which act as personalized examples of women's lives and coping strategies in the Third World. Her review of policy and practice raises questions about development planning and the empowerment of women. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of environmental degradation and economic restructuring on women, with a description of the integral position of women in any solution to the current crises facing the Third World.
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Women and Development in the Third World.......2000-11-27
This book is an easy reader yet it has very interesting case studies that further strengthens the key ideas throughout the book.
An eye-opening look at women in development.......2000-10-02
Momsen gives the reader a detailed and data saturated presentation of the predominant reasons behind and the characteristics of discrimination against women in 3rd world countries. She makes salient points about local economic function and readily backs up her hypotheses with graphs and tables chock full of econometric goodness. But the book drags at times, especially when she delves into data doldrums. She rescues herself through a well constructed argument that helps neophytes like me understand the complex issue at hand. Overall, a good effort and extremely informative. Keep up the good work.
Katherine Shorey.......2000-10-02
Momsen's book describes the challenging atmospere in which third world women are living. Their unappreciated and unrewarded role in the domestic sphere has left them too unskilled and uneducated to enter the labor force. Momsen also explains possible causes for the historical gender inequalities that are illustrated throughout her book. She further investigates the role of the women and concludes that the oppression is socially, not biologically based.-Katherine Shorey
Information in Every Sentence.......2000-09-27
This book was excellent because it had very well thought out and factual information. I enjoyed and agree with, especially the thesis that the reason women are economically under men is because of the extra work they have becuase of their multiple responsibilities; i.e. housekeeping, child rearing, and a job. - Kimberly Campbell
Short Review.......2000-09-26
Women and Development in the Third World asks and answers questions about why women stand where they do in the developing world. The result of women's labor both within and outside of the home is explored in depth. The strength of this short book is its ability to keep the reader's interest, even while quoting hard data. This is not a feminist complaint about the subordination of women; it is an objective look at the role women play in the economies of the developing world.
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Social and Economic Development: An Introduction
Tony Barnett
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