Cultural dimension of development work

  • African Information Centre
  • 19/05/11 18:30

African Information Centre invites you to a discussion on Cultural dimension of development work. The speaker, a cultural anthropologist Zuzana Hrdličková, will talk on this topic and her own experience with humanitarian and development work in South Asia.

Development projects often have the ambition to change social and cultural conventions. Are they succeeding in it? Are the projects changing the cultures or is the culture changing the projects? How did development work change over the last 50 years and how did the experience of development workers and cultural anthropologists contributed to these changes? How and where are he "right" tdevelopment projects implemented?

Zuzana Hrdličová, PhD studied Ethnology and Indology at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Charles University. She did research work in India and Sri Lanca where she worked for humanitarian and development organizations. She then taught a course on Applied anthropology and development work. She currently teaches at the University of London where she also conducts research on humanitarian and development practices.

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New titles in our library 12/2016

Our library has aquired a number of new and interesting books. Here is the list of the latest titles.

  • Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
  • Fashion Cities Africa by Hannah Azieb Pool
  • Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanismby Christopher Lee
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Robinson, James A., Acemoglu, Daron
  • Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures With the Ever-Living Poet by Edward Wilson-Lee
  • A History of Modern Africa: 1800 to the Present by Richard J. Reid
  • Authentically African: Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture by Sarah Van Beurden
  • Children in Slavery through the Ages by by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller
  • Global Health in Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control by Tamara Giles-Vernick
  • Rumba on the River: A History of the Popular Music of the Two Congos by Gary  Stewart
  • Women and Slavery, Vol. 1: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic by Gwyn Campbell
  • Women and Slavery, Vol. 2: The Modern Atlantic by Gwyn Campbell
  • Cahier d'un Retour Au Pays Natal by Aimé Cesaire
  • Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 by Karen Elizabeth  Flint
  • Global Education Policy and International Development: New Agendas, Issues and Policies by Antoni Verger
  • Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry by Matthew M. Heaton
   
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