Rethinking social transformation :

At the turn of the new century, we are confronted with an unprecedented challenge of rethinking the meaning and method of social transformation. This volume undertakes such a task and explores the implications of rethinking social transformation in various domains of our lives, viz. Education, polit...

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Other Authors: Giri, Ananta Kumar
Published: Jaipur : Rawat Publications, c2001.
Subjects:
Social change
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300 |a xv, 407 p. ; 
500 |a Contributed papers presented at a Workshop on Social Criticism, Cultural Creativity and the Contemporary Dialectics of Transformations held at Madras Institute of Development Studies in 1996 as part of its silver jubilee. 
505 2 |a 1. Introduction, the calling of creative transformation / Ananta Kumar Giri -- 2. Social Criticism: cultural creativity and the contemporary dialectics of transformations / Ananta Kumar Giri -- 3. Cultural practice/social change: nurturing a self-critical ground / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan -- 4. Rethinking social transformation: an eco-socialist perspective / Baas Weilinga -- 5. Liberation beyond liberalism: new voices from Buddhism and Islam / Fred R. Dallmayr -- 11. The dialectics of environmentalism / Amita Baviskar -- 12. The trap of nationalism and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh -- 16. The exemplar and the idealogue: the issue of friends and foes 
520 |a At the turn of the new century, we are confronted with an unprecedented challenge of rethinking the meaning and method of social transformation. This volume undertakes such a task and explores the implications of rethinking social transformation in various domains of our lives, viz. Education, politics, religion, spirituality, social movements and cultural criticism. Sixteen outstanding scholars from different vocations and disciplinary backgrounds have discussed different dimensions of contemporary transformations and have suggested new pathways of criticism and creativity. The book would be of interest not only to scholars of sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, history, literature, and cultural studies but also to activists in voluntary organizations and social movements. Contributors include Fred Dallmayr, Ramashray Roy, Amita Baviskar, K Raghavendra Rao, Vidya Das, Achyut Das, Ameena Mohsin, EC Sarangi, C. Sivakumar." 
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