Culture and Social Transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Social Transformations write by Tian Yu Cao. This book was released on 2013. Culture and Social Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributors to this second volume of “Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China” explore some of the most contentiously debated questions and issues including liberalism, human rights, rule of law, the state, capitalism, and socialism.
Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China
Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China write by Tian Yu Cao. This book was released on 2010-05-31. Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In face of rapid social and economic changes since the late 1970s, where is China transforming toward? If culture, in the form values, ideals, and ideological struggles, plays a key role in China’s latest round of social transformations, what are the cultural legacies and resources that are at play and in what ways they do so? This collection of essays aims at addressing these questions. Written by some of the leading intellectuals and thinkers, in and outside of contemporary China, these essays, in different ways, re-examine and reflect on the extent to which three major cultural legacies, namely traditional, May Fourth, and socialist, can function as cultural resources under the changed and changing social and economic conditions of the reform era.
Art, Culture and International Development
Art, Culture and International Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art, Culture and International Development write by John Clammer. This book was released on 2014-11-13. Art, Culture and International Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 studies by introducing new ways of conceptualizing art in relation to development. The book shows how the arts and development are related in very practical ways – as means to achieve development goals through visual, dramatic, filmic and craft-inspired ways. It advocates not so much culture and development, but rather for the development of culture. Without a cultural content to economic and social transformation the problems found in much development – up-rooting of cultures, loss of art forms, languages and modes of expression and performance – may only accelerate. Paying attention to the development of the arts as the content of development helps to amend this culturally destructive process. Finally, the book argues for the value of the arts in attaining sustainable cultures, promoting poverty alleviation, encouraging self-empowerment, stimulating creativity and the social imagination, which in turn flow back into wider processes of social transformation. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter make this book ideal to help foster further thinking and debate. This book is an inspiring read for postgraduate students and researchers in the fields of development studies, cultural studies and sociology of development.
Communication, Culture and Social Change
Communication, Culture and Social Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communication, Culture and Social Change write by Mohan Dutta. This book was released on 2020-06-30. Communication, Culture and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on the culture-centered approach (CCA), this book re-imagines culture as a site for resisting the neocolonial framework of neoliberal governmentality. Culture emerged in the 20th Century as a conceptual tool for resisting the hegemony of West-centric interventions in development, disrupting the assumptions that form the basis of development. This turn to culture offered radical possibilities for decolonizing social change but in response, necolonial development institutions incorporated culture into their strategic framework while simultaneously deploying political and economic power to silence transformative threads. This rise of “culture as development” corresponded with the global rise of neo-liberal governmentality, incorporating culture as a tool for globally reproducing the logic of capital. Using examples of transformative social change interventions, this book emphasizes the role of culture as a site for resisting capitalism and imagining rights-based, sustainable and socialist futures. In particular, it attends to culture as the basis for socialist organizing in activist and party politics. In doing so, Culture, Participation and Social Change offers a framework of inter-linkage between Marxist analyses of capital and cultural analyses of colonialism. It concludes with an anti-colonial framework that re-imagines the academe as a site of activist interventions.
Culture and Social Transformations
Culture and Social Transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and Social Transformations write by Tianyu Cao. This book was released on 2013-10-24. Culture and Social Transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As China enters the second decade of the 21st century, it faces tremendous challenges and crisis. How did China arrive at this point of crisis? How do we understand the nature of the challenges? More than any existing study of reform-era China, this volume offers a theoretical discussion of the cultural and social roots of the reform. It does so for the purpose of further exploring whether or not it is possible to imagine alternatives. Contributors to this second volume of “Culture and Social Transformations in Reform Era China” address these questions by exploring some of the most contentiously debated topics including liberalism, human rights, rule of law, the state, capitalism, and socialism.
