Human development and social power perspectives from South Asia /

• Main Author: Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
• Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 10.
• Subjects: Social policy > South Asia.; Minorities > Social conditions. > South Asia; People with social disabilities > South Asia.; Power (Social sciences) > South Asia.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.; Minorities > Social conditions.; People with social disabilities.; Power (Social sciences); Social policy.; South Asia.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 volume).
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780203895238; 0203895231

In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. This book explores the unevenness of human development with respect to the question of difference. The author develops a conceptual framework that focuses on social power, whereby human development is seen as a process/es of reconstruction of the matrices of social power. The approach builds on three main components, which are applied to the South Asian reality: a relational view of difference; a transformative notion of social justice; and the notion of agency.