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 BRICS -- CONCLUDING 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 strategy -- Abstract -- 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 LAKE -- CONCEPTUALIZING 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 -- Development public policies, emergingc ontradictions and prospects in the post-apartheid South Africa -- Abstract -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- BRIEF OVERVIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA'S SOCIO-POLITICAL HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT -- THE DEVELOPMENT AGENDA OF THE POST-APARTHEID STATE -- RESPONSE OF THE WORKING CLASS TO THE STATES NEOLIBERAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES -- SHIFTING HUMAN FACE OF GEAR -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Part two - CONTEMPORARY TRANSFORMATIONS AND RE-ASSIGNMENT OF POLITICAL AND CULTURAL MEANING IN THE BRICS -- Political-economic changes and the production of new categories of understanding in the BRICS.

South Africa: Hopeful and fearful -- Abstract -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEXT -- FREEDOM DAY WITH SAFM -- HAS ENDOGENOUS SOUTH AFRICA NOTHING TO OFFER? -- TENDERPRENEURSHIP, BUSINESS AS USUAL AND THE POLITICS OF CONSUMPTION -- THE DIGNITY OF CITIZENSHIP -- PLAYING THE BLAME GAME -- MUTUAL TOLERANCE AND ACCOMMODATION -- DEMOCRACY AND RAINBOW CONSTITUTION -- FREEDOM: ARE YOU FREE OR ARE YOU DUMB? -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- The modern politics of recognition in BRICS' cultures and societies: A chinese case of superstition becoming intangible cultural heritage -- Abstract -- Keywords -- THE REVIVAL OF THE LONG PAI HUI -- A NEWLY EXPANDED PUBLIC SPHERE AND NATION-STATE HISTORY -- NAMES AND THINGS: THE BIRTH OF A NEW TEMPLE -- FULLY RECOGNIZED IN THE NAME OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE -- REFERENCES -- Zindabad! Modern contestation against the caste system in India -- Abstract -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POLITICIZATION OF CASTE IN MODERN INDIA -- THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK AGAINST CASTEISM IN INDIA -- THE MANDAL COMMISSION (1978) -- POST-MANDAL COMMISSION ORDINARY LAWS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AGAINST CASTEISM IN INDIA -- INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS AGAINST CASTEISM IN INDIA -- DISAGGREGATING THE DISCONTENTS OF CASTEISM: SCS, STS AND OBCS -- OTHER BACKWARD CLASSES (OBCS) -- SCHEDULED CASTES (SCS) -- SCHEDULED TRIBES (STS) -- CASTE AND GENDER: A NECESSARY CROSSOVER -- FRAMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED GROUPS IN INDIA THROUGH THE PERSPECTIVE OF DIFFERENTLY-ABLED PERSONS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Socio-economic inclusion and justice. A comparative study of BRICS countries with a focus on India -- Abstract -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- BRICS IN THE CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ECONOMY -- THE COLLECTIVE POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES IN FRONT OF BRICS TO ADDRESS ISSUES OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

VARIOUS HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS AND THE BRICS: A SNAPSHOT -- SOCIAL JUSTICE AND INCLUSION: CHALLENGES AND PRIORITIES FOR INDIA -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- REFERENCES -- Income security systems in comparative perspective: Brazil and South Africa -- Abstract -- Keywords -- SECTION I: INTRODUCTION: BUILDING THE STUDY HYPOTHESIS -- SECTION II: SOUTH AFRICA -- Evolution of social protection in South Africa -- SECTION III: BRAZIL -- Historical evolution of the Brazilian income security system -- The Brazilian income security systemś structure -- Impacts of the Brazillian income security system on poverty and Inequality -- SECTION IV: BRAZIL AND SOUTH AFRICA: A COMPARISON -- REFERENCES -- Part three - EMERGENT POWERS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM -- The BRICS in the international system: Very relevant countries, but a group of limited importance -- Is the BRICS a harbinger of a new matrix of global governance in trade, energy and climate change? -- Abstract -- Keywords -- REFERENCES -- South Africa in the international politics of climate and energy -- Abstract -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- SOUTH AFRICA IN INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLITICS: AN EMERGING, BUT AFRICAN, LEADER -- SOUTH AFRICAN ENERGY POLITICS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Brazilian climate and energy policies and politics in the 21st century -- Abstract -- Keywords -- CLIMATE POLITICS IN THREE MOVEMENTS: THE DYNAMIC OF REFORMIST/CONSERVATIVE FORCES -- 2005-2008: THE RISE OF THE REFORMISTS -- 2009-2010: REFORMIST VICTORIES, CONSERVATIVES GROWING -- 2011-2013: CONSERVATIVE HEGEMONY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Resource rents, resource nationalism and innovation policy: Perspectives on Africa and the BRICS -- Abstract -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- THE COLD WAR: LOST YEARS FOR AFRICA -- Resource nationalism and the developmental state -- AFRICA'S INNOVATION SYSTEMS.

INVESTING FOR THE FUTURE -- REFERENCES -- Russia in G20: Lessons and opportunities for BRICS's macroeconomic policy -- Abstract -- Keywords -- INTRODUCTION -- G20'S POLICY COORDINATION FRAMEWORK -- ASSESSING G20'S DECISION-MAKING MECHANISM THROUGH B20-G20 PARTNERSHIP -- RUSSIA'S GROWTH PRIORITIES AND G20'S AGENDA: QUALITY JOBS AND GROWTH -- RUSSIA'S GROWTH PRIORITIES IN G20'S AGENDA: FROM FEEDING DISCUSSION TO SETTING UP DECISIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ANNEX 1. RUSSIA'S STRUCTURAL REFORM COMMITMENTS UNDER -- Notes on contributors -- Back cover.