Kaikobad, Rhea
(2019)
Another world is possible.
Students’ Journal of Education and Development (5).
pp. 73-78.
Abstract
The dominant paradigm of development is focused on the expansion of
economic growth, which, according to a top–down approach would allow
resources to trickle down to the poor, thereby improving their social status.
Social interventions made with this idea in mind simply focus on improving
the efficiency of processes that increase economic growth. However, this
dominant ideology has failed to ensure the welfare of the marginalised and
instead has ended up reproducing unequal social systems. True social change
involves a transformation in the social structure, which can only emerge if
there is a change in the development discourse and mindset. This involves
the capacity to question accepted norms and imagine a new kind of world,
as suggested by the slogan of the World Social Forum. This article discusses
two social interventions, which, in my opinion, have been able to imagine
and bring into being a more socially just atmosphere, within their areas of
influence.
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