Cultures, Communities, Identities explores a wide range of cultural strategies to promote participation and empowerment in both First and Third World settings.
This volume takes as its starting point that issues of identity and culture are important and relevant for community development in nearly every society. It is
This collection of essays addresses the issues and concerns raised by the emphasis on society not as a series of homogeneous interlocking blocks, but as a pleth
Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of
The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily mea