From Negations to Negotiations: Solving The Puzzles of Development

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The central problem of this volumes is structures around the debates of local problems and global resolutions among other fascinating negotiations between the dynamics that have provoked the ideology of Globalization and even Glocalization. This edited anthology is expected to contribute new knowledge and facilitate innovative research to better understand the interactions and interplay between the local and the global. The new debates on human rights worldwide center around the multiple politics of empowerment and identities. Civil liberties and human rights constitute the critical polemic that happens to inform current globalizations debates. The dynamics of neo-institutionalism and neo-liberalism also impinge upon the metaphors of Empowerment, gender and inclusive Growth in an era when one the hand barriers are collapsing only to create new obstacles to the emancipation of the self. The Orientalism discourse is also especially relevant in this connection, as the polyphony of new discourses often engage in serious tussles with emergent signifiers and signifieds. The problematique of this book project is structured around the polemic of civil societal institutions (networks and embeddedness) and democratic governance (Inclusive growth and participatory development) among other critical areas of social scientific research. This edited anthology would contribute new knowledge and facilitate innovative research to better understand the interactions and interplay between actors and their institutions. The politics of everyday life and human development are generally informed by the dynamics of choice and the strategies of cooperation. This tension can be somewhat resolved by adopting the social capital approach, as inclusive growth can more often than one be ensured by empowered choices and delegated actions. This highlights the importance of issues and concerns related to social capital, poverty, globalization and human rights in all our grand as well as small narratives today in a world where economic signifiers and their signified meanings are more or less in a state of constant flux provoked by the marketplace of politics and the social as well as cultural rhetoric of glocalization. These volumes would be of interest to Social Scientists, policy-makers, Government Officials, Think Tanks, Civil Society Organizations and common readers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Prasenjit Maiti

Dr. Prasenjit Maiti (b 1971) is a political sociologist. He joined the development sector after teaching and researching at the Postgraduate and MPhil levels of the University of Burdwan during 1995-2002. He was on secondment at the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (1999). He was the Director of North Africa, Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent on the inaugural Technical Committee of Fed-Net (2004) hosted by the Forum of Federations: An International Network on Federalism (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). Dr Maiti was professionally associated with Action Aid, West Bengal Pollution Control Board, Consumer Unity and Trust Society, The Energy and Resources Institute, Council for Development Studies and Shelter Promotion Council in the recent past. He coordinated publication of the Urban Development Debates series (Volumes I-IV) brought out by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi (2004-05). Dr. Maiti served as Reviewer (2001) for policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management (College of Education, Division of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati). He is also Referee for Environment and Development Economics (University of York, Heslington, York) published by the Cambridge University Press and Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Perpetuity Press, Leicester) as well as Reviewer for Globalization and Health published from London. His mainden publication on the problems of governance in the Indian context (2002) is based on his doctoral thesis developed from a German Research Council project under the auspices of the Department of Political Science at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. Dr. Maiti was invited to the International Conference on Federalism 2002 organized by the Swiss Government at the University of St Gallen (2002).