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 importantcontext challenging the scientific orthodoxy of our times. BRIJ MOHAN Dean Emeritus in the School of Social Work at Louisiana State University, USA. INDICE: - PART I: CULTURE OF DEVELOPMENT - Theorizing Poverty of Culture: Requiem for Change - Development Delusion - Entropy of Developmentalism - Politics of Development - PART II: THE MIND OF DARKNESS - End of the Third World -Rise of the Rest - Banality of Global Evil - The Caste War: Archeology of a Perpetual Conflict - PART III: TRANSFORMATIVE POLICY - 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11025-0
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 26/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido