Development, poverty of culture, and social policy
By: Brij Mohan ; foreword by David G. Gil
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780230110250
Subjects: International cooperation; Political aspects; Socialism; Poverty; Social change
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing poverty of culture : requiem for change; title: Development delusion; title: Entropy of developmentalism; title: Politics of development; title: End of the Third World; title: Rise of the rest; title: Banality of global evil; title: The caste war : archeology of a perpetual conflict; title: The ordeal of reason; title: Inanity of social intervention; title: Rethinking of international social work; title: Social practice in a troubled world; title: New social development : a paradigm; title: Human rights today; title: Idioms of social change; title: Epilogue: culture as a defensive spider.