Social Exclusions: Challenges for New Social Development.

Social developmentalism is fraught with the fallacies of growth. In a world plagued by paroxysm of neuroses, fear, self-righteous contempt, violence and global inequalities, universal needs—survival, justice and human dignity—call for new strategies for social transformation. It implies a fresh critique of social development, its theory, practice and politics. This paper seeks to deconstruct the kitsch of outdated constructs that sustain and perpetuate oppressive structures of social exclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]