Africa's Development Impasse : Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation Paperback / softback
by Doctor Stefan Andreasson
Paperback / softback
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Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa.
Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives.
Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development.
In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:11/02/2010
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- ISBN:9781842779729
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:11/02/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781842779729
