Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development - Knowledge and sentiments in conflict

This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions all of those involved in local development schemes.

List of contents

Preface 1 Introduction: anthropological perspectives on local development 2 Discourses on development in Malaysia 3 Sex for leisure: modernity among female bar workers in Tanzania 4 State vs. locality: the new Slovene—Croat state border in the Upper Kolpa valley 5 From economism to culturalism: the social and cultural construction of risk in the River Esera (Spain) 6 Contested space: planners, tourists, developers and environmentalists in Malta 7 The road to ruin: the politics of development in the Balearic Islands 8 When opposite worldviews attract: a case of tourism and local development in Southern France

About the author

Simone Abram is a Research Fellow at the University of Cardiff. Jacqueline Waldren is a Research Associate at the Centre for Cross□Cultural Research on Women and a Lecturer-Tutor at Oxford University

Summary

This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions all of those involved in local development schemes.

Product details

• Assisted by: Simone Abram (Editor), Abram Simone (Editor), Jacqueline Waldren (Editor), Waldren Jacqueline (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.1998
• EAN: 9780415182775
• ISBN: 978-0-415-18277-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Illustrations: Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Humanities