Cultivating Integral Development - Hardcover

Giri, Ananta Kumar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367545187 ISBN 13: 9780367545185

Publisher: Routledge India, 2023

Synopsis

This book cultivates visions and practices of integral development of the self, society, and the world. It builds upon deconstructions of development discourse and practice and strives to reconstruct and reconstitutes it as integral development. It addresses entrenched dualisms in development studies and practices such as between the self and the other, the providers of development and its recipients, materialism, and spirituality, and cultivates pathways of integral development. The book explores the many challenges facing development studies and practice such as poverty, creativity, political economy, moral economy, leadership, sustainable development, and evolutionary flourishing. It also opens the discourse and practice of development to cross-cultural dialogues by undertaking discussions between Euro-centric approaches to development and other visions and practices of development such as Purusartha, Swadhyaya, Sarvodaya, integral yoga, and Lokasasamgraha from Indic traditions.

Drawing on multiple cultural and philosophical resources and traditions, Cultivating Integral Development is a pioneering work and will be of great interest to scholars, researchers, and actors of development studies, political science, and philosophy as well as concerned human beings around the world.

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About the Author

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367545187
• ISBN 13: 9780367545185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300