Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development : Knowledge and Sentiments in Conflict (Paperback)

Preface 1 Introduction: anthropological perspectives on local development 2 Discourses on development in Malaysia 3 Sex for leisure: modernity among female bar workers in Tanzania 4 State vs. locality: the new Slovene?Croat state border in the Upper Kolpa valley 5 From economism to culturalism: the social and cultural construction of risk in the River Esera (Spain) 6 Contested space: planners, tourists, developers and environmentalists in Malta 7 The road to ruin: the politics of development in the Balearic Islands 8 When opposite worldviews attract: a case of tourism and local development in Southern France