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Cultural Rhythmics: Applied Anthropology and Global Development from Latin America
Cultural Rhythmics: Applied Anthropology and Global Development from Latin America
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Cultural Rhythmics is an anthropological tool that proposes future design strategies for business, community leaders, political decision-makers, and scientists. It combines over fifteen years of fieldwork in public sector management of development programs with a symbolic analysis of cultural imaginaries and rhythms of life. It offers alternative proposals for political and scientific management of development processes in Latin America and beyond, and is a must-read for development scholars interested in a colonial matrix of thought.
Format: Hardback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 27 July 2022
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Cultural Rhythmics is a groundbreaking anthropological tool that offers valuable insights for decision-makers and scholars in the field of development. Recognizing the limitations of linear models of development, it proposes future design strategies that can be applied to business, community leaders, political decision-makers, and scientists from diverse backgrounds.
Focusing on applied anthropology and development studies, Iparraguirre employs an action-research pragmatic approach to analyze four study cases. Through this lens, he draws attention to a specific set of rhythms of life and imaginaries, highlighting their significance in understanding development processes.
Cultural Rhythmics introduces a novel method for studying temporality, spatiality, and rhythms of daily life simultaneously, rather than treating them as separate elements. By combining over fifteen years of fieldwork in public sector management of development programs with a symbolic analysis of cultural imaginaries and rhythms of life, Iparraguirre offers a pioneering ethnographic and interpretative study.
In his analysis of the cases presented, Iparraguirre delves into the symbolic dimension of development in Argentina. He presents alternative proposals for political and scientific management of these processes in Latin America, drawing upon his rhythmics perspective.
Beyond the innovative analysis of the cases, Iparraguirre's rhythmics perspective can be extended to practices of development and agenda design in other territories of Argentina, Latin America, and the Global South. This makes Cultural Rhythmics a valuable resource for development scholars interested in exploring the colonial matrix of thought and its implications for governance practices.
In conclusion, Cultural Rhythmics is a groundbreaking work that provides valuable insights for decision-makers and scholars seeking to understand the complexities of development. By offering a fresh perspective on temporality, spatiality, and rhythms of daily life, it proposes innovative design strategies that can be applied to diverse contexts. Through its exploration of the symbolic dimension of development, it sheds light on the imaginaries of development and their correlated governance practices, making it a must-read for development scholars interested in Latin America and beyond.
Weight: 342g
Dimension: 160 x 239 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803828244
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