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  • Culture, Development and Social Theory

    Towards an Integrated Social Development

    by John Clammer ...
    This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces 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 crises it is necessary to recover a more holistic ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Vision and Society

    Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of sociology itself.Vision and Society explores the ways in which art (here mainly understood as visual art) structures in fundamental ways the constitution of society, the relations between societies and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Race and State in Independent Singapore 1965–1990

    The Cultural Politics of Pluralism in a Multiethnic Society

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1998, this volume explores Singapore as an ideal case study for the examination of the management of postcoloniality, social diversity and the pursuit of economic growth with ethnic harmony. Singapore has, since independence, evolved a unique mix of state directed capitalism, revamped Confucianism and a social order based on an ideology of multiracialism. The result has been a ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Cultures of Transition and Sustainability

    Culture after Capitalism

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Contending that culture lies at the root of our current planetary and civilizational crisis, this book uniquely explores the nature of the specifically cultural dimensions of that crisis and how culture relates to the areas of politics, policy, economics, ecology and the whole discourse of sustainability. It debates how profoundly our world is shaped by capitalist culture, emphasizing the import ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Art, Culture and International Development

    Humanizing social transformation

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places culture, specifically in the form of the arts, back at the centre of debates in development ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Cultural Rights and Justice

    Sustainable Development, the Arts and the Body

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an innovative contribution to the emerging field of culture and development through the lens of cultural rights, arguing in favour of a fruitful dialogue between human rights, development studies, critical cultural studies, and concerns about the protection and preservation of cultural diversity. It breaks with established approaches by introducing the themes of aesthetics, ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Urban Japan

    A Sociology of Consumption

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Difference and Modernity

    Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Japan
    The question of ‘postmodernity’ that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged capitalist ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Writing in Times of Displacement

    The Existential and Other Discourses

    Edited by Mbuh Tennu Mbuh, Meera Chakravorty, John Clammer ...
    This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It examines the experiences of migration as a result of wars, natural disasters, religious strife, loss of livelihoods and shifts in local and global economies and the vulnerabilities they expose.Bringing together scholarly insights into literature about ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Dynamics of Dissent

    Theorizing Movements for Inclusive Futures

    Edited by John Clammer, Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey, Tanmayee Banerjee ...
    This book analyses dissent and its manifestations in movements of social and political transformation across communities and cultures. It shows how these movements create ruptures in the structures of power, and social hierarchy; expressed through songs, slogans, poetry and performances. The chapters in the book explore these sites of transgression and the imprint they leave on culture, politics, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Social and Economic Transitions in China and India

    Welfare and Policy Changes

    Edited by Keerty Nakray, Zhang Yi, John Clammer, Wenjuan Zhang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on impacts from the social and economic changes in the last century and the fourth industrial revolution on welfare state transformations in China and India, the world's two largest countries in terms of ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetics of Development

    Art, Culture and Social Transformation

    Edited by John Clammer, Ananta Kumar Giri ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Through a unique range of theoretical and practical case studies, this collection considers the relationship between the arts (understood as the visual arts, crafts, theatre, dance, and literature) and development, creating both a bridge between them that is rarely explored and filling in concrete ways the content of the “culture” part of the equation “culture and development”. It includes ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD