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Author: John Clammer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.249kg
ISBN: 9781138024724
ISBN 10: 1138024724
Pages: 158
Publication Date: 25 November 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Art, Culture, and International Development offers a profound civilizational critique of contemporary predicament of development and presents us many important resources for development of a new culture of creativity. It challenges us to realize our manifold contemporary poverty in the midst of illusion of affluence on the part of a few-material, cultural and spiritual poverty-and urges us to strive for realizing 'integral development' in self and society in which arts in all their myriad manifestations-visual, crafts, literature, painting, and theatre-play an important role. -Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India John Clammer brings fresh air to the field of development. The author proposes art and its transformative potential as a way to improve the living conditions of the poorest. Therefore, art, once a stronghold of the elites, would become a powerful resource for development. Clammer reinstates the expressive and creative capacity of vulnerable groups as a means of exploring alternative paths to the longed, but rarely achieved well-being . This perspective on development -a field still hegemonized by hard data, and the logics of economics-is optimistic, and especially humane. -Marian Moyer, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art, Culture and International Development offers a profound civilizational critique of contemporary predicament of development and presents us many important resources for development of a new culture of creativity. It challenges us to realize our manifold contemporary poverty in the midst of illusion of affluence on the part of a few-material, cultural and spiritual poverty-and urges us to strive for realizing 'integral development' in self and society in which arts in all their myriad manifestations-visual, crafts, literature, painting, and theatre-play an important role. -Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India John Clammer brings fresh air to the field of development. The author proposes art and its transformative potential as a way to improve the living conditions of the poorest. Therefore, art, once a stronghold of the elites, would become a powerful resource for development. Clammer reinstates the expressive and creative capacity of vulnerable groups as a means of exploring alternative paths to the longed, but rarely achieved well-being . This perspective on development -a field still hegemonized by hard data, and the logics of economics-is optimistic, and especially humane. -Marian Moya, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Author Information
John Clammer is Visiting Professor of Development Sociology at the United Nations University, Tokyo where he also runs the film and art programmes, and is Adjunct professor of Art and Society at Kanda University of International Studies and the International University of Japan.
