Development, Poverty of Culture, and Social Policy [electronic resource] /
Mohan, B.author.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global implications. It posits social development theory and practice in a critically important context challenging the scientific orthodoxy of our times.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theorizing poverty of culture : requiem for change -- Development delusion -- Entropy of developmentalism -- Politics of development -- End of the Third World -- Rise of the rest -- Banality of global evil -- The caste war : archeology of a perpetual conflict -- The ordeal of reason -- Inanity of social intervention -- Rethinking of international social work -- Social practice in a troubled world -- New social development : a paradigm -- Human rights today -- Idioms of social change -- Epilogue: culture as a defensive spider.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global implications. It posits social development theory and practice in a critically important context challenging the scientific orthodoxy of our times.
Political science.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
International relations.
Political sociology.
Social policy.
Political Science.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
International Relations.
Political Sociology.
Social Policy.