1. Introduction -- 2. Classic Ideas of Modernity, Culture, and Progress -- 3. Culture in Critical and Sociological Thought -- 4. Culture in Development Theory -- 5. Culture in Critical Development Theory -- 6. Origins of a Maya Sustainable Development Movement -- 7. The Maya Idea of Culturally Sustainable Development -- 8. Garifuna Sustainable Development -- 9. Andean Indigenous Sustainable Development -- 10. Indigenizing Development -- 11. Indigenous Sustainable Development.

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This open access book outlines development theory and practice over time as well as critically interrogates the “cultural turn” in development policy in Latin American indigenous communities, specifically, in Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Bolivia. It becomes apparent that culturally sustainable development is both a new and old idea, which is simultaneously traditional and modern, and that it is a necessary iteration in thinking on development. This new strain of thought could inform not only the work of development practitioners, graduate students, and theorists working in the Global South, but in the Global North as well. Timothy MacNeill is Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science and Program Director of Sustainability Studies at University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.