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Zed Books Culture Development and Social Theory Towards an Integrated Social Development by John Clammer
Culture, Development and Social Theory' places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies, introducing new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering.' The author expertly argues that in the current world crisis it is necessary to recover a more holistic vision of development that creates a vocabulary linking more technical (and predominantly economic) aspects of development with more humanistic and ecological goals. Furthermore, that any post-capitalist economies and societies, requires cultural as well as economic and political dimensions.