Global frontiers of social development in theory and practice : climate, economy, and justice /
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2015]
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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.