Sustainable Development in a Globalized World

Studies in Development, Security and Culture, Volume 1
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-55127-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 143 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hettne, B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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