Description
This book explores how many issues related to development and governance?including migration, disaster management, environmental justice, people?s movement and democracy, peace and security, sustainability, public-private partnerships, citizen-centered practice and administration, health care, technology and information technology, capitalism and worker rights, and corporate responsibility?impact the practice of social work. It takes a global, comparative approach, reflecting the global context in which social workers and developmental professionals now operate.
Contents
1 Governance, Development, and Social Work: Introduction / Subhabrata Dutta and Chathapuram S. Ramanathan
2 Civil Society and Governance: Between Involvement and Autonomy? / Piotr Salustowicz, Subhabrata Dutta and Chathapuram S. Ramanathan
3 People?s Movement for Accountable Electoral Politics and Empowerment of Tribals / Bipin Jojo
4 Citizen-Centered Administration for Child Welfare / Jessica Toft and Anthony A. Bibus
5 Self-Help Groups?Towards Citizen-Centric Policies and Services: A Study of a District in West Bengal / Dipankar Mandal
6 Governance and Development / M.R. Sivaraman
7 Social Security on Health Care: A Refl ection from the UK and US / Sudeepa Sivaramakrishnan and Chathapuram S. Ramanathan
8. Governance and Disaster Management: The Governmental and Community Response to Hurricane Katrina and the Victorian Bushfires / Howard Karger, John Owen and Shashi Van De Graaf
9. Disasters and Disaster Aid: Conceptual Paradigm and Implications for Social Work Intervention, with Special Reference to the Indian Scenario / Debotosh Sinha
10. Organizing for Environmental Justice: From Bridges to Taro Patches / Amy Krings, Michael S. Spencer and Kelcie Jimenez
11. Technology and Its Role in Good Governance / Dhrubodhi Mukherjee and Goutham Menon
12. ICT and Knowledge Economy: An Indian Contour of Polarities / K.V. Nagraj
13. Capitalism, Worker Rights, community Well-Being, and Corporate Responsibility / Keith McClellan and Chathapuram S. Ramanathan
14. Partnership in Good Governance: Role of Government and the HSDS / Sunanda Kaushik and Subhashree Sanyal
15. Visions for the Future / Chathapuram S. Ramanathan and Subhabrata Dutta
