Simone Abram / Jacqueline Waldren (eds.)

Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development

Knowledge and sentiments in conflict
Herausgeber: Abram, Simone; Waldren, Jacqueline

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780415182775
• ISBN-10: 0415182778
• Artikelnr.: 22010699

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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