
Sustainable Development in a Globalized World
Studies in Development, Security and Culture, Volume 1
B. Hettne(Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 4. December 2007
Book
Hardback
XL, 294 pages
978-0-230-55127-5 (ISBN)
Description
The outcome of a major research project on development, security and culture, this collection along with a second volume Human Values and Global Governance , outlines the emerging field of global studies and the theoretical approach of global social theory. It focuses on the problem of development in the context of the globalized condition.
Reviews / Votes
'This volume contains a number of wide-ranging, and often brilliant, essays that range over the complex contemporary interaction between development, security and culture. It will change the way you think about some of these issues.' - Professor Tony Payne, Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK.
More details
Edition
2007 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
Illustrations
XL, 294 p.
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
531 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-55127-5 (9780230551275)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
ULRICH BECK is Professor of Sociology, München, Germany
DAN BRÄNSDSTRÖM is former Director of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and Chairman of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond's Sector Committee for Culture, Security and Sustainable Social Development
GUDEUN DAHL is Professor of Social Anthropology and Dean of the Social Faculty at Stockholm University, Sweden
ALF HORNBORG is Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University, Sweden
SAAS EDDIN IBRAHIM is Professor and Director of Ibn Khaldun Center of Development, Cairo, Egypt
URBAN JONSSON is former Regional Director of the United Nations Children's Fund
ENRIQUE RODRIGUEZ LARRETA is Director of Centre for Cultural Studies, Sergio Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro
FREDRIK LUNDMARK is Secretary of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond's Sector Committee for Culture, Security and Sustainable Social Development
PENINA MLAMA is Professor and Executive Director of the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE), Nairobi, Kenya
JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE is Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, USA
THORAYA OBAID is Executive Director, the United Nations Population Fund
OSVALDO SUNKEL is Emeritus Professor of Economics, Santiago de Chile
PONNA WIGNARAJA is Chairman of South Asian Perspectives Network Association, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Content
Foreword; D.Brändström & F.Lundmark Preface: Development, Security and Culture; B.Hettne Introduction; B.Hettne Development Discourses in History; B.Hettne Reinventing Europe: A Cosmopolitan Vision; U.Beck The Precarious Sustainability of Democracy in Latin America; O.Sunkel Towards a New School of Thought on Development in South Asia; P.Wignaraja Environmental Load Displacement in World History; A.Hornborg Child Malnutrition. From the Global Protein Crisis to a Violation of Human Rights; U.Jonsson Culture and Human Rights: It is the 'How' and not the 'Why' and 'What'; T.Obaid Words as Moral Badges: A Flow of Buzzwords in Development Aid; G.Dahl Civil Society, Faith-Based Organisations and Development in the Arab World; S.Eddin Ibrahim The Cultural Dimension of Gender in Education; P.Mlama Environmental Load Displacement in World History; A.Hornborg Reinventing Europe. A Cosmopolitan Vision; U.Beck Islam and Cosmopolitanism; J.N.Pieterse Place and Voice in the Global Age; E.Rodriguez Larreta Conclusion; B.Hettne