Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development : Knowledge and Sentiments in Conflict

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge 1998Description: 177 pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415182782
  • 9780415182775
Subject(s):
Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: anthropological perspectives on local development; Discourses on development in Malaysia; Sex for leisure: modernity among female bar workers in Tanzania; State vs. locality: the new Slovene-Croat state border in the Upper Kolpa valley; From economism to culturalism: the social and cultural construction of risk in the River Esera (Spain); Contested space: planners, tourists, developers and environmentalists in Malta; The road to ruin: the politics of development in the Balearic Islands
When opposite worldviews attract: a case of tourism and local development in Southern FranceIndex
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.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: anthropological perspectives on local development; Discourses on development in Malaysia; Sex for leisure: modernity among female bar workers in Tanzania; State vs. locality: the new Slovene-Croat state border in the Upper Kolpa valley; From economism to culturalism: the social and cultural construction of risk in the River Esera (Spain); Contested space: planners, tourists, developers and environmentalists in Malta; The road to ruin: the politics of development in the Balearic Islands

When opposite worldviews attract: a case of tourism and local development in Southern FranceIndex

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.