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Engaging with Development Issues and Approaches

Author Name: R Kumaran | Format: Paperback | Genre : Educational & Professional | Other Details
Development remains a contested concept, as ever. While many argue that the solution for ‘less development’ is ‘more development’, there are others who stoutly defend the thesis that the real solution is ‘no development’. The latter claim that if we substitute the word ‘poverty’ with the word ‘destitution’, then it becomes evident that almost all forms and manifestations of destitution, are arguably development-induced. Although poverty as ‘material resourcelessness’ always existed, destitution was unknown to societies of pre-development era. Destitution is the cruelest condition of absolute social, moral and collective resourcelessness, that pushes people to starvation, homelessness and aloneness. While macrolevel studies, instead of proving underdevelopment as the outcome of poverty, need to reverse the cliched casual-chain and study as to how development induces destitution, microlevel studies need to study specific forms of destitution, and as to how they directly co-relatable to the ever expanding landscape of development – both as practice and attitude of mind. This book aspires to do the latter, in small measure.
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R Kumaran

R. Kumaran is currently Director, Centre for Studies in Sociology, at the Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Science, Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed to be University. He has a combined 20 years of teaching and research experience, having taught at Post-Graduate level during most of his career. He has acquired his PG degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, while his M.Phil. in Sociology is from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. His Ph.D work is on Gandhian Approach to Development and Poverty, obtained from Gandhigram Rural University. His research interests are centred around formulating Gandhian Research Methodology for Social Sciences, positing native sociology tempered with indigenous social philosophers and thinkers such as M.K Gandhi and Ambedkar, and popularising Public Sociology that brings the last human to the front stage, in true Gandhian Spirt. His publications too reflect his thrust areas of research with three of his five books and many of his research articles focussing on bringing marginalised people’s experiences to the centre-stage of social science epistemology.
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