Rethinking social transformation
Subtitle: criticism and creativity at the turn of the millennium
By: edited by Ananta Kumar Giri.
Contributors: Giri, Ananta Kumar.
Publisher: Rawat Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Jaipur
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Social change -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses.; South Asia -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies; Congresses.
Description: Contributed papers presented at a Workshop on Social Criticism, Cultural Creativity and the Contemporary Dialectics of Transformations held at Madras Institute of Development Studies in 1996 as part of its silver jubilee.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction, the calling of creative transformation / Ananta Kumar Giri; title: 2. Social Criticism: cultural creativity and the contemporary dialectics of transformations / Ananta Kumar Giri; title: 3. Cultural practice/social change: nurturing a self-critical ground / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan; title: 4. Rethinking social transformation: an eco-socialist perspective / Baas Weilinga; title: 5. Liberation beyond liberalism: new voices from Buddhism and Islam / Fred R. Dallmayr; title: 11. The dialectics of environmentalism / Amita Baviskar; title: 12. The trap of nationalism and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh; title: 16. The exemplar and the idealogue: the issue of friends and foes