Global frontiers of social development in theory and practice : climate, economy, and justice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mohan, Brij, 1939- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Robert Kowalski
  • Prologue
  • Brij Mohan
  • Part One
  • Social Practice: Frontiers of Human and Social Development
  • I. Archeology of Social Practice
  • Brij Mohan
  • II. The Cultivation of Eco-Civilization
  • Brij Mohan
  • III. The Economic Illusions that Holdback Human Development
  • Roberts Kowalski
  • IV. Economic Growth as Social Problem: The Case of Climate Change
  • Max Koch
  • V. Dialectics of Development: How Social Science Fails
  • Shweta Singh
  • VI. Environmental Justice
  • Brij Mohan
  • Part Two
  • Toward Comparative Social Development
  • VII. Comparative Social Welfare Revisited
  • Brij Mohan
  • VIII Social Welfare for Transformative Practice
  • Brij Mohan
  • IX. Extending Baselines of Shifts in Governance beyond the West: China as a Mirror Testing Ground of Governance
  • Sander Chan and Matthias Stepan
  • X. Indigenous Communities' Informal Care and Welfare Systems for Local Level Social Development in India
  • Manohar Pawar and Bipin Jojo
  • XI. Outsourcing of Corruption: A Case of Counter-Development
  • Vijay P. Singh
  • XII. The Madness of Caste
  • Suryakant Waghmore and Qudsiya Contractor
  • XIII. Mission Lost: What Does Evidence Base and Standardization Mean for International Social Work?
  • Nairuti Jani
  • Epilogue: Mendacity of Development.