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 of all of those involved in local development schemes. The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. All the contributors use rigorous anthropological methods of analysis to shed light on the place of feelings of personal sentiment and identity in reactions to planned development schemes. In a world where direct action and public protest are routine responses to local development schemes, they show how protesters, developers and politicians often hold very different fundamental views about the environment, society, government and development which go beyond partisan economic and political interests.
Author(s): Simone Abram, Jacqueline Waldren (editors)
Edition: 1
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 176
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction: anthropological perspectives on local development......Page 12
Discourses on development in Malaysia......Page 29
Sex for leisure: modernity among female bar workers in Tanzania......Page 47
State vs. locality: the new Slovene-Croat state border in the Upper Kolpa valley......Page 66
From economism to culturalism: the social and cultural construction of risk in the River Esera (Spain)......Page 86
Contested space: planners, tourists, developers and environmentalists in Malta......Page 107
The road to ruin: the politics of development in the Balearic Islands......Page 131
When opposite worldviews attract: a case of tourism and local development in Southern France......Page 152
Index......Page 171
