| Author | : Doctor Stefan Andreasson |
| File Size | : 54,9 Mb |
| Publisher | : Zed Books Ltd. |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 04 July 2013 |
| ISBN | : 9781848136038 |
| Pages | : 232 pages |
Africa s Development Impasse by Doctor Stefan Andreasson Book PDF Summary
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.
