Rethinking Development in South Asia: Issues, Perspectives and Practices (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527577152)

This book challenges the way development has been conceptualized and practiced in South Asian context, and argues for its deconstruction in a way that would allow freedom, choice and greater well-being for the local people. Far from taking development for granted as growth and advancement, this book unveils how development could also be a destructive force to local socio-cultural and environmental contexts. With a critical examination of such conventional development practices as hegemonic, patriarchal, devastating and failure, it highlights how the rethinking of development could be seen as a matter of practice by incorporating peopleâ (TM)s interest, priorities and participation. The book theoretically challenges the conventional notion of hegemonic development and proposes alternative means, and, practically, provides nuances of ethnographic knowledge which will be of great interest to policy planners, development practitioners, educationists and anyone interested in knowing more about how people think about their own development.

Author: Farid Uddin Ahamed
ISBN-10: 1527577155
ISBN-13: 9781527577152
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2022
Pages: 250
Format: Hardcover