GOVERNANCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIAL WORK

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.

Chathapuram S. Ramanathan has worked in the human service area for over three decades, and is currently the chief executive of Human Service Enterprises, Michigan. Dr. Ramanathan graduated with a master’s and a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois. His practice and scholarship focus is on occupational social work, addiction recovery, cross-cultural issues, social development, and clinical social work. He has been providing psychotherapy services for over 20 years, and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Prior to that, in the state of Illinois, he provided social work services for 12 years.

Subhabrata Dutta is an associate professor and head of the Department of Social Work, Assam University (a CentralUniversity), Silchar, India. Dr. Dutta has started his academic career as a faculty member at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, and has taught two years there. His major areas of interest, practice, and scholarship focus are on social work, governance and social development, gender issues, and child protection.