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Zusatztext 'This volume contains a number of wide-ranging! and often brilliant! essays that range over the complex contemporary interaction between development! security and culture. It will change the way you think about some of these issues.' - Professor Tony Payne! Department of Politics! University of Sheffield! UK. Informationen zum Autor ULRICH BECK is Professor of Sociology, München, GermanyDAN BRÄNSDSTRÖM is former Director of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and Chairman of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond's Sector Committee for Culture, Security and Sustainable Social DevelopmentGUDEUN DAHL is Professor of Social Anthropology and Dean of the Social Faculty at Stockholm University, SwedenALF HORNBORG is Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University, SwedenSAAS EDDIN IBRAHIM is Professor and Director of Ibn Khaldun Center of Development, Cairo, EgyptURBAN JONSSON is former Regional Director of the United Nations Children's FundENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ LARRETA is Director of Centre for Cultural Studies, Sergio Mendes University, Rio de JaneiroFREDRIK LUNDMARK is Secretary of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond's Sector Committee for Culture, Security and Sustainable Social DevelopmentPENINA MLAMA is Professor and Executive Director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Nairobi, KenyaJAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE is Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, USATHORAYA OBAID is Executive Director, the United Nations Population FundOSVALDO SUNKEL is Emeritus Professor of Economics, Santiago de ChilePONNA WIGNARAJA is Chairman of South Asian Perspectives Network Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka Klappentext The outcome of a major research project on development, security and culture, this collection along with a second volume Human Values and Global Governance , outlines the emerging field of global studies and the theoretical approach of global social theory. It focuses on the problem of development in the context of the globalized condition. Zusammenfassung The outcome of a major research project on development! security and culture! this collection along with a second volume Human Values and Global Governance ! outlines the emerging field of global studies and the theoretical approach of global social theory. It focuses on the problem of development in the context of the globalized condition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; D.Brändström & F.Lundmark Preface: Development, Security and Culture; B.Hettne Introduction; B.Hettne Development Discourses in History; B.Hettne Reinventing Europe: A Cosmopolitan Vision; U.Beck The Precarious Sustainability of Democracy in Latin America; O.Sunkel Towards a New School of Thought on Development in South Asia; P.Wignaraja Environmental Load Displacement in World History; A.Hornborg Child Malnutrition. From the Global Protein Crisis to a Violation of Human Rights; U.Jonsson Culture and Human Rights: It is the 'How' and not the 'Why' and 'What'; T.Obaid Words as Moral Badges: A Flow of Buzzwords in Development Aid; G.Dahl Civil Society, Faith-Based Organisations and Development in the Arab World; S.Eddin Ibrahim The Cultural Dimension of Gender in Education; P.Mlama Environmental Load Displacement in World History; A.Hornborg Reinventing Europe. A Cosmopolitan Vision; U.Beck Islam and Cosmopolitanism; J.N.Pieterse Place and Voice in the Global Age; E.Rodriguez Larreta Conclusion; B.Hettne...
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Foreword; D.Brändström & F.Lundmark Preface: Development, Security and Culture; B.Hettne Introduction; B.Hettne Development Discourses in History; B.Hettne Reinventing Europe: A Cosmopolitan Vision; U.Beck The Precarious Sustainability of Democracy in Latin America; O.Sunkel Towards a New School of Thought on Development in South Asia; P.Wignaraja Environmental Load Displacement in World History; A.Hornborg Child Malnutrition. From the Global Protein Crisis to a Violation of Human Rights; U.Jonsson Culture and Human Rights: It is the 'How' and not the 'Why' and 'What'; T.Obaid Words as Moral Badges: A Flow of Buzzwords in Development Aid; G.Dahl Civil Society, Faith-Based Organisations and Development in the Arab World; S.Eddin Ibrahim The Cultural Dimension of Gender in Education; P.Mlama Environmental Load Displacement in World History; A.Hornborg Reinventing Europe. A Cosmopolitan Vision; U.Beck Islam and Cosmopolitanism; J.N.Pieterse Place and Voice in the Global Age; E.Rodriguez Larreta Conclusion; B.Hettne
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'This volume contains a number of wide-ranging, and often brilliant, essays that range over the complex contemporary interaction between development, security and culture. It will change the way you think about some of these issues.' - Professor Tony Payne, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK.
