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Author:

Workshop on "Social Criticism, Cultural Creativity and the Contemporary Dialectics of Transformations" (1996 : Madras Institute of Development Studies) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002019457

Title:

Rethinking social transformation : criticism and creativity at the turn of the millennium / edited by Ananta Kumar Giri.

Publisher:

Rawat Publications,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

xv, 407 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Social change--Congresses.--Congresses.
South Asia--Social conditions--20th century--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Giri, Ananta Kumar. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98920838

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. Introduction, the calling of creative transformation / Ananta Kumar Giri -- 2. Social Criticism: cultural creativity and the contemporary dialectics of transformations / Ananta Kumar Giri -- 3. Cultural practice/social change: nurturing a self-critical ground / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan -- 4. Rethinking social transformation: an eco-socialist perspective / Baas Weilinga -- 5. Liberation beyond liberalism: new voices from Buddhism and Islam / Fred R. Dallmayr -- 11. The dialectics of environmentalism / Amita Baviskar -- 12. The trap of nationalism and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh -- 16. The exemplar and the idealogue: the issue of friends and foes

Summary:

Contributed papers presented at a Workshop on Social Criticism, Cultural Creativity and the Contemporary Dialectics of Transformations held at Madras Institute of Development Studies in 1996 as part of its silver jubilee.

ISBN:

9788170336983
8170336988

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49514166

LCCN:

2001435668

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)