About the Book
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
About the Author / Editor
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.
