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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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: From Development to Post-Development 1. Foundations for Development in Southern Africa 2. The Elusive Developmental Nexus 3. Beyond Development Part II: Comparative Regional Trajectories 4. Botswana: Paternalism and the Developmental State 5. Zimbabwe: the Failing State Revisited 6. South Africa: Normalisation of Uneven Development Conclusion - Comparative Lessons from Southern Africa Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Stefan Andreasson is Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. His research has appeared in journals including, among others, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Third World Quarterly, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Political Studies, Democratization, and Business and Society. Stefan Andreasson is Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. His research has appeared in journals including, among others, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Third World Quarterly, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Political Studies, Democratization, and Business and Society.

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Andreasson unveils in this book a highly innovative contribution to the discussion about how and in which ways Africa can negotiate to forge its own future... The book is thought-provoking... Africa's Development Impasse is commendable above all for its willingness to engage with ideas about the radical transformations necessary to come to genuinely broad-based and sustainable development in an African post-colonial order... A provocative and path-breaking study... This important book interrogates Africa’s position under the conditions of late modernity and the hegemony of liberalism and offers up an original vision for a genuinely emancipatory project that may, finally, create space for the continent’s own thinking on development issues. This is an excellent contribution in the post-development studies literature and an inspiring book to place in the hands of those who need to carry out the transformation... A bold and imaginative reflection, in the context of southern Africa, on what the post-development injunction to seek alternatives to development can actually mean. This book constitutes a major contribution to (Southern) African & (post-) development studies at the start of the second decade of the 21st century following the recent global financial restructuring.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781842779729
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
  • ISBN-10: 1842779729
  • Publisher Date: 11 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 138 mm


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