Prasenjit Maiti
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V. 1. Disquieting divides : politics of the self and the other.; V. 2. Sustainable development and inclusive growth : histories, institutions, ideologies and praxes.
This collection of essays by academics and practitioners from around the world underscores issues and concerns of sustainable urban development and best practices in terms of theory as well as praxes. Contributors have made an attempt to critically reconcile the hypothetical with the applied in order to arrive at innovative solutions for urban good governance in the context of water supply reforms including water management, sanitation, migration of rural ...
India’s problems of governance may be located in the disjunction between the Indian crowds, mobilized during the national liberation movement, and their post-independence political institutions. Reconstruction of the polity by India’s elites after independence was, arguably, an extension of colonial arrangements of power and authority. Governing strategies that had emerged during India’s national liberation movement, however, were more often than not ...
This collection of essays seeks to explore common lessons from political sociology and development studies and-in this process-tries to resolve the tension between the author’s academic and practitioner worldviews. The author has tried to highlight one principal concern in this volume that development is more often than not a multicultural construct of everyday politics that is context-bound and predicated by statements of informed choices on the part of the ...
The volumes cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development from different angles influenced by multiple academic backgrounds. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the reader to arrive at his/her own understanding of the problems under purview. Contributors to these volumes have tried to argue the different issues and concerns of ...
Some major developments witnessed during the 20 century have greatly impacted human beings as well as the planet Earth--the only known planet to support life. Incalculable harm is being caused to natural habitats, eco-systems and environment by unprecedented growth in population resulting in great rise in consumption; rapid increase in urbanization and industrialisation; dramatic changes in global economic environment; and reckless use of mineral and forest ...
This book explores the multi-dimensional and problematic relationship between ethics and development in the context of an array of methodological tools and conceptual categories such as social capital, civil society, good governance, involuntary displacement and human rights. Special emphasis has been laid to develop the text as a ready reference for students, research scholars, academics, activists, NGO professionals, planners, social workers, policy-makers, ...
Social capital is as an empirically elusive concept and has been subject to much discussion and debate with particular reference to its definition, functions, social regeneration, economic benefits, positive and negative aspects, indicators of measurement, gender insensitivity and its implications for development policy. Social capital is characterized by trust, reciprocity and cooperation which are non-material forms of capital, invisible to the eye but having ...
Some major developments witnessed during the 20 century have greatly impacted human beings as well as the planet earth--the only known planet to support life. Incalculable harm is being caused to natural habitats, eco-systems and environment by unprecedented growth in population resulting in great rise in consumption; rapid increase in urbanization and industrialization; dramatic changes in global economic environment; and reckless use of mineral and forest ...
The volumes Development Studies cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study. Contributors to the volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and ...
India's growth story in various sectors--industry, services, mining, and power--particularly since the dawn of the new millennium, though impressive, has not been inclusive. Whereas urban areas have developed fast, the rural areas still lack the basic infrastructure of connectivity, marketing and adequate means of employment generation. Poverty remains a major issue with our huge population living in rural areas, particularly in BIMARU states of Bihar, Jharkhand, ...
The volumes Development Studies cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study. Contributors to the volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and ...
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 ...