Dasarath Chetty
Biographic Data
| ID | 4221591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dasarath Chetty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dasarath |
| FAMILY NAME | Chetty |
| SIGNATURE | CHETTY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3664-8656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Decoloniality, Participation, Organisational Democracy, and Self-Management in Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Global South
This paper examines how colonial and neoliberal logics have influenced the ideas of self-management, democracy, and participation and how a decolonial perspective might reinterpret them. Although democracy and participation are celebrated in mainstream development discourse, they frequently serve as technologies of control that uphold market rationalities and dependency. The paper presents a conceptual model for comprehending how political and or…
Public participation and the politics of humiliation
The article contends that the most popular form of Public Participation (PP) in SA is public protest, which, as a result of historical continuity, represents a direct response to the humiliations experienced by the poor, unemployed and socially excluded. Despite an enlightened human rights Constitution, if citizens are treated as consumers and left to the vagaries of the market PP mechanisms are likely to fail as they do not address the real soci…
Social work in south africa
The paper presents a birds-eye view of welfare in South Africa by noting how racial segregation in all areas of social life has left a legacy that still has to be tackled. Within this context of institutionalized racism the emergence of the voluntary welfare movement, national associations, and professional social workers is surveyed. In the new non-racial democracy the commitment to developmental social work, and social equity more generally, an…
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Social work in south africa
The paper presents a birds-eye view of welfare in South Africa by noting how racial segregation in all areas of social life has left a legacy that still has to be tackled. Within this context of institutionalized racism the emergence of the voluntary welfare movement, national associations, and professional social workers is surveyed. In the new non-racial democracy the commitment to developmental social work, and social equity more generally, an…
Public participation and the politics of humiliation
The article contends that the most popular form of Public Participation (PP) in SA is public protest, which, as a result of historical continuity, represents a direct response to the humiliations experienced by the poor, unemployed and socially excluded. Despite an enlightened human rights Constitution, if citizens are treated as consumers and left to the vagaries of the market PP mechanisms are likely to fail as they do not address the real soci…
Decoloniality, Participation, Organisational Democracy, and Self-Management in Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Global South
This paper examines how colonial and neoliberal logics have influenced the ideas of self-management, democracy, and participation and how a decolonial perspective might reinterpret them. Although democracy and participation are celebrated in mainstream development discourse, they frequently serve as technologies of control that uphold market rationalities and dependency. The paper presents a conceptual model for comprehending how political and or…
Criminology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Citizen journalism (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)