New Horizons of Human Development
Contents: Introduction and Invitation: New Horizons of Human Development - Self-Development, Inclusion of the Other and Planetary Realizations/Ananta Kumar Giri. I. New Horizons of Human Development: Renewing our Modes of Thinking: 1. A Moral Critique of Development: Ethics, Aesthetics and Responsibility/Ananta Kumar Giri and Philip Quarles van Ufford. 2. Development Beyond Teleology: Between Policies and Evolution/Reinhart Kosler. 3. Progress, Development and Practical Erasure/Parthasarathi Mondal. 4. Development as Cultural Innovation: Some Cross-Cultural Considerations/Anthony Savari Raj. 5. Towards a New Social Vision: The Calling of Sacro-Civic Society and Harmonic Globalization for New Earth Sastra/Subash Sharma. 6. Human Development and Progress as True Happiness/Prahlad Shekhawat. 7. Multiple Intelligence Wheels for Holistic Development/Reeta Sonawat. 8. Rethinking Sustainable Development: Self-Development, Social Transformations and Planetary Realizations/Ananta Kumar Giri. II. New Horizons of Human Development: Peace, Knowledge, Human Security and Social Quality: 9. Peace and Development in J.C. Koomarappa’s Thoughts/Pranjali Bandhu. 10. Social Development and Peace/John Clammer. 11. Liberating Development from Itself: The Politics of Local Knowledge/John Clammer and Marian Moya. 12. Use Of Local Knowledge In Elementary Education For A Culturally Responsive Learning/Mahendra Kumar Mishra. 13. Risking Security: Paradoxes of Social Cohesion/Thomas Hyland Eriksen. 14. Being Dynamism Approach to Inequality and Human Development/V.J.R. Byra. 15. Human Security and Social Quality: Contrasts and Complementarities/Des Gasper, Laurent J.G. van der Maesen, Thanh-Dam Truong and Alan Walker. 16. Land use conflicts and human development nexus: proximity analysis/Habibullah Magsi and André Torre. 17. Beyond Investors’ Prayers: Systemic Failure of Capitalism and Alternatives to It/Johannes D. Schmidt. 18. From Problem Solving to World Creation: The Case of Risk Communication/Piet Strydom. III. New Horizons of Human Development: Cross-Cultural Learning, Social Suffering and Challenges of New Co-Realizations: 19. Rethinking the Human and the Social: Towards a Multiverse of Transformations/Ananta Kumar Giri. 20. Three Approaches to Liberation in Latin America: Theology, Philosophy and Pedagogy/Ivan Marquez. 21. Human Development as Transformative Practice: Lessons from Kerala and Cuba/Joseph Tharamangalam. 22. Transformation by Barbarity and Beauty/Andrea Grieder. 23. Creating Stages for Development: A Learning Community with Many Tasks and No Goal/Lois Holzman.
24. Samarasya: Stories of Interpersonal Transformations in Indian Psychology/Shilpa Ashok Pandit. 25. Human Development and Ecological Consciousness in the Novels of Margaret Atwood/Suman Karla. 26. Nature and the Human in the 21st Century/Manoranjan Mohanty. 27. Suffering, Solidarity and Joy: The Story of Maggie/R. Shanthini. 28. Eco-rights and Responsibility/Nirmal Selvamony. 29. Transformative Information: Microvita and Sense-Making in an Co-Creative Universe/Marcus Bussey. 30. Convivialist Manifesto: A Declaration of Interdependence and Beyond/Claude Alphandéry. Index.
While there is a renewed engagement with the discourse of development in our present-day world both in their critical as well as valorized manifestations, very rarely have some of the fundamental challenges as well as pathways of renewal been explored. This book addresses these gaps in our knowledge and research by bringing together essays on topics such as self-development, co-learning, co-responsibility, aesthetic ethics, creativity, conviviality, human security, peace and social quality etc. together. New Horizons of Human Development is not only a pioneering but also a monumental effort in our field of thinking, practice and collaborative imagination which raises some of these vital and deeper questions of human development and then overflows to an epochal and epic quest for rethinking and regenerating life, culture, society, polity and our fragile humanity. This book will be an enriching co-traveler for all friends from a wide range of paths of exploration in the academy--sociology, anthropology, philosophy, literature, development studies, cultural studies and religious studies--as well as across it—activists, citizens and seeking souls of the world. (jacket)
