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Human Development and Social Power - Perspectives from South Asia (Paperback)
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Human Development and Social Power - Perspectives from South Asia (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a
state of crisis. Each successive Human Development Report (HDR) and
the pervasive global failure to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals are constant reminders of this crisis. An equally, and even
more distressing dimension of human development is its great
unevenness. Even in countries with high levels of human development
it was noted that gender differences were significant. Levels of
educational attainment and incomes remain significantly unequal
between social groups, constituted along other categories of
difference such as race, ethnicity and religion, as do levels of
economic and political participation. 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: a relational rather than an
identity-centric view of difference; a transformative notion of
social justice - as opposed to a distributive understanding of
justice; and the notion of agency. These are applied to the South
Asian reality, where important insights into structural aspects of
human development can be obtained in terms of religion, gender and
caste. Written accessibly and lucidly, this book will be of
interest to students and researchers in development studies,
political economy, political science, public policy, governance,
security studies, human rights, social and religious studies and
South Asia.
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