Includes bibliographical references and index.

Culture and global change : an introduction / Tracey Skelton and Tim Allen -- Classic conceptions of culture / Peter Worsley -- Globalised culture : the triumph of the West? / John Tomlinson -- Culture and deve lopment theory / Peter Worsley -- Modernisation versus the environment? Shifting objectives of progress / Alan Thomas -- Local knowledges and changing technologies / Gordon Wilson -- Understanding health / Murray Last -- Finding the right image : British development NGOs and the regu lation of imagery / Henrietta Lidchi -- Representations of conflict in the Western media : the manufacture of a barbaric periphery / Philippa Atkinson -- Sex tourism : the complexities of power / Jan Jindy Pettman -- The city and identity : news frames and the representation of Londo n and Londoners in the Evening standard / Jenny Owen -- Culture as ideo logy : explanations for the development of the Japanese economic miracl e / Roger Goodman -- Cultural disease and British industrial decline : Weber in reverse / Mike Hickox -- Ethnicity / John Eade and Tim Allen - - Local forms of resistance : weapons of the weak / Hazel Johnson -- 'T he people's radio' of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida : alternative commun ication and cultures of resistance in Brazil / Vivian Schelling -- The new migrants : 'flexible workers' in a global economy / Chris J. Martin -- The West, its Other and human rights / Rolando Gaete -- Female circ umcision and cultures of sexuality / Melissa Parker -- Street lives and family lives in Brazil / Tom Hewitt and Ines Smyth -- Religion and pol itical transformation / Jeff Haynes -- Religion and development / Parva ti Raghuram -- Paying the price of femininity : women and the New Hindu ism / Dina Abbott -- Whose game is it anyway? West Indies cricket and p ost-colonial cultural globalism / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Bollywood vers us Hollywood : battle of the dream factories / Heather Tyrrell -- Mimic king Mammon? What future for the post-communist Russian film industry? / Kate Hudson.