Social, political and cultural challenges of the BRICS /

For the almost 40 years of its existence, ANPOCS has contributed to introducing or consolidating new thematic areas in the academic agenda of debates in the Brazilian social sciences. Commensurate with this history, at the 37th Annual meeting, hosted in guas de Lindoia, Sao Paulo, in 2013, we organi...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Sao Paulo, Brazil : ANPOC, 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Summary; Social, political and cultural challenges of the BRICS; WHY UNITE 30 SOCIAL SCIENTISTS FROM THE BRICS AT THE ANPOCS MEETING?; DIFFERENCES, POWER AND TAXONOMIES; REFERENCES; Part one
  • DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC POLICIES IN THE BRICSS; Social sciences and the BRICS; CULTURAL EXCHANGE
  • SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION; SOCIOLOGY AND THE BRICS; CONCRETE STEPS IN DEVELOPING A SOCIOLOGY IN AND OF THE BRICS; SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN THE BRIC COUNTRIES; SOCIAL SCIENCE COOPERATION WITHIN THE IBSA FRAMEWORK; SOCIOLOGY OF YOUTH IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES.
  • SOCIOLOGY OF THE BRICSCONCLUDING NOTE; REFERENCES; Development, social justice and empowerment in contemporary India: A social perspective; Abstract; Keywords; References; India's public policy: Issues and challenges & BRICS; Abstract; Keywords; INTRODUCTION; INDIA AS A WELFARE STATE; FIVE-YEAR PLAN PROGRAMME; SOME REASONED REFLECTIONS; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT; INEQUALITY; EMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT; POVERTY AND EMPLOYMENT GENERATION PROGRAMMES; SOCIAL PROTECTION PROGRAMMES; RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE, HOUSING, AND SANITATION; SKILL DEVELOPMENT.
  • UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA (UIDAI)EDUCATION; HIGHER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION; HEALTH; WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT; WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SCHEDULED CASTES (SCS), SCHEDULED TRIBES (STS), AND OTHER BACKWARD CASTES (OBCS); SCHEDULED TRIBES (STS); MINORITIES; OBCS; PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES; SOCIAL DEFENCE; THE CASE OF FOOD SECURITY PROGRAMME; DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND OF INDIA!; CONFRONTING ODDS; OUTLOOK AND CHALLENGES; PUBLIC RESPONSE TO DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA; INDIA IN LATIN AMERICA; CONTEXTUALISING BRICS; REFERENCES.
  • From the minority points of view: A dimension for CHina's national strategyAbstract; Keywords; DEBATING "MINORITY PROBLEMS"; HISTORY REMEMBERS; JUSTICE, ETHICS, AND SUBJECTIVITY; Liquid modernity, mevelopment Trilemma and ignoledge governance: A case study of ecological crisis in SW China; Abstract; Keywords; "LIQUID" SYNDROME AND "SOLID" GOVERNANCE MEGALOMANIA: AN INTRODUCTION; CASE STUDY: THE PLIGHT OF A "POLITICAL" PLANT; THE "NEW WATER HYACINTH DEAL" FOR DIANCHI LAKE; WHAT ON EARTH IS INSIDE THE WATER HYACINTH BOX?; SELF-CIRCULATION OF POLLUTION BEHIND THE WATER HYACINTH ECONOMY.
  • ECO-MANAGEMENT DISORDER AROUND DIANCHI LAKECONCEPTUALIZING THE "POLITICAL OTHER SHORE" (BI'AN): THE ADVENT OF THE POST-ECOLOGICAL ERA IN WHICH IGNOLEDGE IS STRENGTH; IGNOLEDGE: A CRITICAL VIEW; CONCLUSION: LIQUID MODERNITY, TRILEMMA AND IGNOLEDGE; REFERENCES; The global position of South Africa as BRICS country; Abstract; Keywords; INTRODUCTION; THEORETICAL CONCEPTUALISATION; Dependency theory; World system theory; SOUTH AFRICA'S POSITION IN THE WORLD SYSTEM; Contextualisation; Institutional sectors; Political sector; Economic sector; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.