Reflections and mobilizations : dialogues with movements and voluntary organizations

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Reflections and mobilizations : dialogues with movements and voluntary organizations

Ananta Kumar Giri

SAGE Publications, 2005

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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`There has been an unprecented flourishing of new social movements around the world in recent years. This revival has opened our eyes to wider horizons, and strengthened our confidence in the fact that "another world is possible". Giri's book gives inspiring glimpses of this process' - Jean Dreze, Visiting Professor, Delhi School of Economics `A book that gives voice to the unsuing heroes of the worldwide strugle for social justice... and which the huge reservoir of creativity that resides in contemporary social movements' - John Clammer, Professor of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo This unusual book is about a more humane world in the making. It describes the visions, experiments, struggles and aspirations of several social movements and voluntary organizations from India and other parts of the world which are striving to realize new modes of human development in various fields-education, religion, human rights, tribal development and community development. The author shows how these movements and organizations touch on many key contemporary issues-self-development, reconstitution of public space and reconstruction of government. The book is structured as a series of dialogues where the participants critique their lives, as also their organizations or movements. The objective of putting together these dialogues is to facilitate a learning process between scholars and activists and across movements and organizations.

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Foreword C T Kurien - C T Kurien Preface The Struggle for Life and Light Agragamee and the Management Functions for Human Liberation Fighting Displacement and Dispossession Reflecting on the Strivings of Agragamee and Action Aid for the Poor and Tribals around the Indravati Project of Orissa Samajik Seva Sadan A Journey We Make the Road by Walking Jana Bikash Kendra and the Striving to Create Collective Foundations of Prosperity and Well-Being Housing Movements in Contemporary India Some Examples from Kerala Narratives of Creative Transformations Constituting Critical Movements in Contemporary American Culture Pee for Free with Dignity Towards a New Mode of Embodiment of Responsibility Impersonal Wealth and the Spiritual Regeneration of Social Capital Globalization of Hinduism Swadhyaya in England and Sai Baba in Bali Education for Self-Transformation and Social Change A School for the Subject The Vision and Experiments of Integral Education Self-Development and Voluntary Action Reflections and Mobilizations: Development as Global Responsibility Appendices Index

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