Complicating Culture for Development: Negotiating 'Dysfunctional Heritage' in Sierra Leone

Main author: Basu, Paul
Other authors: Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna
Format: Book Chapters           
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description At least since the publication of Our Creative Diversity , the report of the UN World Commission on Culture and Development, in 1996, discourses concerning ‘the power of culture for development’ have formed part of that circulating concatenation of ideas, terms and images that characterizes what we might regard as the ‘ideoscape’ of international development (cf. Appadurai 1990: 9-10). Alongside such buzzwords as participation , empowerment and poverty reduction (Cornwall and Brock 2005), there has been a programmatic diffusion of ideas that link the realms of culture and development. Thus, culture is said to be ‘a fundamental component of sustainable development’, ‘a powerful global economic engine’, ‘a vehicle for social cohesion and stability’, and ‘a repository of knowledge, meanings and values that permeate all aspects of our lives’ (UNESCO 2010: 2-6).
author_additional Basu, Paul
author_additionalStr Basu, Paul
format Book Chapters
author Basu, Paul
author_facet Basu, Paul
Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna
authorStr Basu, Paul
author_letter Basu, Paul
author2 Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna
author2Str Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna
title Complicating Culture for Development: Negotiating 'Dysfunctional Heritage' in Sierra Leone
publisher Routledge
publishDate 2015
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/21531/