Interrogating Social Development: Global Perspectives and Local Initiatives
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Social development: Changing contexts and emerging perspectives. 1. Social development, social policy and social movement: The interconnections/T.K. Oommen. 2. Globalization and social transformation in India/S.L. Sharma. 3. Shifting Perspectives on social development: Changing context and emerging challenges for India/Debal K. Singha Roy. 4. Defining civil society: Issues and challenges in the context of globalization/Alka Dhameja. 5. Growth and the holistic social development: A paradox of civil society movement in India/H.A. Shankaranarayana and T.N. Sreedhara. II. State and Legal Interventions. 6. Social development, conflict and participatory governance in North-East India/Sujata Dutta Hazarika. 7. Dalit’s Rights in Forests: Challenges and opportunities/P.K. Biswas. 8. Forest rights and tribal lives: An analysis of Panchayati raj institutions in Koraput District of Orissa/Raj Kumar Khosla. 9. Development or destitution: Rethinking tribal-State Relationship in Orissa/Jagannath Ambagudia. 10. Engendering disability in the developmental agenda in India: A policy perspective/Renu Addlakha. 11. Rescue and rehabilitation of sex workers: A Case study of Delhi/O.P. Mishra. III. Civil Society, Local and corporate initiatives. 12. Social development and the empowerment of marginalized women: A Study of SHGs/Damayanti Mukhopadhyay and S.A.H. Moinuddin. 13. Social Mobilization of the Marginals: A Case study of Tribal development project/Silima Nanda. 14. Cooperative Movement and social development of the marginalized: A Case of lift irrigation/Sarjerao Salunkhe. 15. Role of corporate and community partnerships in social development/Ritambhara Malaviya. 16. Interactivity of Marginalized Indian communities subsisting on the trade of medicinal plants with the global community/Moumita Das. IV. ICT, Education, and social development. 17. Role of ICT in social development: A critique/Suditi Naskar. 18. ICT-Mediated Lifelong Education for alleviating marginality in a knowledge society/Sutapa Bose.
“This collection of essays shows that as the developmental processes have not positively impacted all sections of the society, due to inherited socio-cultural considerations on the one hand and the state failure to ensure equity to all its citizen on the other, pre-existing social imbalances have been reproduced and furthered keeping vast sections of the population persistently poor, illiterate, in ill-health, un/underemployed, homeless, voiceless and vulnerable. Beside elaborating the dominant perspectives of social development it also elucidates several developmental initiatives undertaken among the tribes, dalits, forest-dwellers, women, physically challenged, sex-workers in various parts of the country and recorded emerging praxes of social development that have emerged from the grass-roots experiences of cooperative activisms, Self-Help Group initiatives, corporate social partnerships, interactivity of marginalized communities, and ICTs interventions.
This collection would be of immense use to students, researchers, teachers of sociology, political science, economics, history, public administration, social psychology and development studies and civil society activists, planners, executives and politicians dealing with the issues of social development, marginalization and social exclusion.”(jacket)
