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The Culture and Development Manifesto

Robert Klitgaard

The Culture and Development Manifesto
The Culture and Development Manifesto

The Culture and Development Manifesto

Robert Klitgaard

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Around the world, the realities of underdevelopment are harsh and galling, and current strategies are not working well enough or quickly enough. With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "manifesto" shows how to take account of cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development.

This book is a brilliant plea, subtly combining scholarship, examples and common sense, to mobilise the competencies of anthropologists for a better adaptation of development policies to local conditions. It is based on a robust premise: in the confrontation between the interventions of development agencies and the social contexts in which they are implemented (local cultures), the many failures do not stem from a refusal of development by the populations but from an incapacity of public policy experts to take local cultures into account. The final proposal, convening dialogues between experts, anthropologists and local actors, is highly stimulating.

Can cultural anthropology and international development team up in a way that creates mutual respect and contextually sensitive projects, programs, or social movements - ones that fit? How common is an author with kind heart, hard head, and lucid pen; one intimately familiar too with scholars, program designers, and powerful officials? That's right; both disciplines need this book.

The Culture and Development Manifesto seeks to open a path between two disciplines that often seem hermetically sealed, cultural anthropology and development economics. It will be of immense use to any practitioner working at this highly fraught boundary.

In this highly engaging book, Klitgaard not only brings economic and culture into dialog with each other, he goes beyond 'culture matters' to demonstrate what 'taking culture into account' may mean in practice. This is a book that only Klitgaard, with his sharp multidisciplinary lens, wealth of on-the-ground experience, and remarkable penmanship, could have pulled off

As anthropologists and management consultants know, sometimes it takes an outsider to show the value of an idea. In this provocative and thoughtful book, Klitgaard shows that it may take an outsider (an economist, no less) to show how the study of culture holds practical lessons for human development. Rather than seeing 'culture' as an obstacle to development and wellbeing, he shows how both creativity and collaboration emerge from bringing together on equal footing different, even competing, beliefs and ways of looking at the world. Connecting the dots between theory and policy, he offers a practical and useful 'convening framework' to operationalize this model. Policy makers as well as scholars and practitioners of development should read this book and work to implement its conclusions.

A proposition universally accepted, it seems, is that culture should (must) be taken into account in international development work. However, there is zero consensus as to how best to do so. Worse, the pitfalls on the path to integrating cultural approaches make many duck and avoid the topic altogether. Klitgaard has grappled with this odd dilemma for many years, on the ground and in the academy. In The Culture and Development Manifesto, he sets out the challenges and their historic evolution with lucid clarity (and a host of stories), and offers some sensible, if demanding, ways forward.

Robert Klitgaard is a University Professor at Claremont Graduate University, in California. His research and consulting have taken him to more than 35 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He has been a professor at Harvard, Yale, and the Dean of the Pardee RAND Graduate School, America's leading Ph.D. program in policy analysis. Among his ten previous books is Tropical Gangsters, named one of the New York Times' Books of the Century.

Specificaties

  • Uitgever
    Oxford University Press Inc
  • Verschenen
    aug. 2021
  • Bladzijden
    240
  • Genre
    Sociale en culturele antropologie
  • Afmetingen
    234 x 156 x 19 mm
  • Gewicht
    352 gram
  • EAN
    9780197517741
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Taal
    Engels

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