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.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Human development : has the paradigm failed us?
• 1. Conceptualising human development : towards a social power approach.
• 2. Human development in India : a profile of unevenness.
• 3. Uneven human development in India : a social power perspective.
• 4. Human development in Pakistan and Bangladesh : a profile.
• 5. Uneven human development in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
• 6. Conclusions : agency, human development, & social power.