Global Frontiers of Social Development in Theory and Practice

Part 1. Social Practice: Frontiers of Human and Social Development

1. On Social Practice: Archeology of Science and Hope
Brij Mohan

2. The Cultivation of an Eco-Civilization
Brij Mohan

3. The Economic Illusions That Hold Back Human Development
Robert Kowalski

4. Economic Growth as Social Problem: The Case of Climate Change
Max Koch

5. Dialectics of Development: How Social Sciences Fail People
Shweta Singh, David G. Einbrick

6. Environmental Justice: Experiments in Democratic Participation—An Indo-American Experience
Brij Mohan

Part 2. Toward Comparative Social Development

7. Comparative Social Welfare Revisited
Brij Mohan

8. Social Welfare and Transformative Practice
Brij Mohan

9. China as a Mirror and a Testing Ground for Governance Beyond the West
Sander Chan, Matthias Stepan

10. Indigenous Communities’ Informal Care and Welfare Systems for Local-Level Social Development in India
Manohar Pawar, Bipin Jojo

11. Outsourcing of Corruption: India’s Counterdevelopment
Vijay P. Singh

12. On The Madness of Caste: Dalits; Muslims; and Normalized Incivilities in Neoliberal India
Suryakant Waghmore, Qudsiya Contractor

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

14. Epilogue: Mendacity of Development
Brij Mohan

Nyckelord: Science, Science, general