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Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Understanding "community participation" -- The method -- The context -- Similarities and differences in coastal community participation -- A typology of community participation -- Conclusion

English This article examines the scope and prospect for effective utilization of social capital in mitigating the consequences of natural disasters that hit coastal regions. The article concludes by identifying the role of social work education and practice in building social capital for sustainable disaster relief and management. French Cet article examine les perspectives et la porté e de l'exploitation efficace du capital socié tal pour atté nuer les consé quences des catastrophes naturelles dans les ré gions côtiè res. Les conclusions de cet article mettent en relief le rôle de la formation et de la pratique en travail social dans la construction d'un capital socié tal pour la gestion et le secours durables en cas de catastrophe. Spanish Este artículo examina el alcance y la posibilidad de la utilizació n efectiva del capital social para mitigar las consecuencias de los desastres naturales que impactan las regiones costeras. El artículo concluye identificando el papel de la educació n y práctica del trabajo social en la construcció n del capital social para el alivio y manejo sostenible del desastre.

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This study examines the long-term effects of Cyclone Aila on the traditional livelihood of the Munda community in the Sundarbans forest of Bangladesh, together with its socially and culturally assigned gendering. Building on existing critiques of gender and critical developmental studies, the present study uses an ethnographic approach and traces resilience alongside a new gender equality between males and females, as they jointly discover new commercial and home industry occupations to replace the damaged Sundarbans forest heritage, discarding gendered role stereotypes in the jobs they do and the way they contribute to family income.

Social work addresses social issues that constrain the betterment of a community. However, social work practice is struggling to deal effectively with the development challenges of Bangladesh. Based on a literature review and the experiences of the authors, this paper explores the emerging issues where social work practice is anticipated as a promising alternative for bringing sustainable social development in Bangladesh. Simultaneously, the paper discovers the limitation of social work practice in Bangladesh addressing these challenges.

Two contested arguments persist in explaining the causes of feminization and labor vulnerability. Some scholars argue that global industries are dominated by female workers as a result of the search for cheap labor. On the other hand, some scholars claim that the primary cause of feminization and labor vulnerability is the gendered discourses of work. Drawing views from readymade garment (RMG) industries of Bangladesh, this paper argues that both economic choices of cheap labor and gendered discourses of work collaboratively contribute to feminizing the labor force. This feminization of the workforce enables the violation of labor rights and benefits capitalists.

Microcredit has become a key instrument to the path of women empowerment in Bangladesh and has been replicated in many parts of the globe. However, the credit-based model does not go beyond the academic debates. Many scholars have argued that microcredit has brought substantial changes to the pathway of women empowerment. Challenging this view, others scholars have claimed that microcredit has no significant effect on empowerment of women rather very often it causes harm to poor women. This paper assumes that the existing literatures have lack in finding the concrete impact of microcredit due to the perception of empowerment from a narrower view. Thus, this study defines empowerment from a broader perspective considering the different levels of empowerment and assesses the impact of microcredit on these levels based on empirical evidences from Bangladesh. This paper reveals that microcredit has very minimal effect on empowerment due to its overemphasis on income and economic empowerment. This paper concludes that microcredit alone often cannot bring desired changes to the lives of women in a patriarchal society unless further interventions are made at their social, cultural, perceptual and psychological levels.

Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: The Face and Interface -- The Face and Interface -- Ubuntu: The Face of Covid-19 -- The Interface: Global Health Policies and People's Health -- Costing Life, Casting News and Policy in the Covid-19 Pathology -- Beyond Illiberal Normativity? This Special Issue -- Beyond the Left-Right but Moving Forward -- An Argument Within When Ubuntu Is Not a Khichri -- Why This Book (Read Analysis) -- What Is Not This Book -- Readership of This Book -- Structurization of the Book -- References -- 2 Research Is Not Greater Than the Methodology: Ways of Seeing and Analyzing Ubuntu -- The Analytical Root -- Repairing the 'Self' as a Researcher -- Stream 2: Al-Farabi, Saadia Gaon: Their Critical Stance -- Stream 3: The Poststructuralist Move to Anticolonial Ancestry -- Stream 4: The Decolonial Turn -- Indigenous Gnoseology as a Method of Seeing Ubuntu-Absorbing of the Four Streams -- Methodological Tenets -- Research Is Reciprocal -- What My Community Is Giving Back from My Study! -- The Research Sits Inside the Methodology, Not Methodology in the Research -- Why Methodology Matters -- the Topic, the Context, and the Researcher! -- Research Is Not About Tools, Techniques, or Instruments but All About Trust, Respect, Caring, Sharing, and Unity -- Is Research Apolitical? -- Research Is Beyond the State, Business, and the 'Self' and Hence, Universal -- Research About Not Only Writing the Right Thing but Acting as 'Righting the Rights of People' -- Research Is Not Deeper Than Its Methodology -- Conclusion: Can We Start Weing -- References -- 3 What Does Ubuntu Manifest in This Pandemic -- What Is Ubuntu -- Does Ubuntu Contradict Individualism? -- Features of Ubuntu: A Set of Characteristics.

The pandemic exposed long-standing and inherent inequities in societies and opened old wounds of discrimination, dissent, and division. Governance in such uncertain times need to focus on the short-term needs but cannot lose sight of the longer-term impact of structural inequalities and cultural and social fissures embedded in political systems.