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

Table of Contents:


Part One: Social Practice: Frontiers of Human and Social Development

I. Archeology of Social Practice

II. The Cultivation of Eco-Civilization

III. The Economic Illusions that Holdback Human Development
Roberts KowalskiIV. Economic Growth as Social Problem: The Case of Climate Change
Max Koch

V. Dialectics of Development: How Social Science Fails
Shweta SinghVI. Environmental Justice

Part Two: Toward Comparative Social Development

VII. Comparative Social Welfare Revisited

VIII Social Welfare for Transformative Practice

IX. Extending Baselines of Shifts in Governance beyond the West: China as a Mirror Testing Ground of Governance
Sander Chan & 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 Quidsia Contractor

XIII. Mission Lost: What Does Evidence Base and Standardization Mean for International Social Work?
Nairuti Jani

This volume examines developmentality and the archeology of its social practices, unfolding systemic failures that muffle progress. Economic, climate, and social justice are the areas of focus for this analysis of human-social development in the fog of ideological-institutional meltdowns.
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