Africa's Development Impasse
Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
Stefan Andreasson
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Africa's Development Impasse
Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
Stefan Andreasson
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the author
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Key abbreviations
- Introduction
- One | From Development to Post-Development
- Two | Comparative Regional Trajectories
- Conclusion: comparative lessons from southern Africa
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index