{"product_id":"9781842779729","title":"Africa's Development Impasse : Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eAfrica's Development Impasse\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Doctor Stefan Andreasson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrthodox 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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...” —\u003ci\u003eAfrica Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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...” —\u003ci\u003eBram Buscher, The Journal of Modern African Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A provocative and path-breaking study...” —\u003ci\u003eGiuliano Martiniello, Leeds African Studies Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eIan Taylor, University of St Andrews\/University of Stellenbosch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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...” —\u003ci\u003eMarte Conde, Progress in Development Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eRichard Sandbrook, University of Toronto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book constitutes a major contribution to (Southern) African \u0026amp; (post-) development studies at the start of the second decade of the 21st century following the recent global financial restructuring.” —\u003ci\u003eTimothy M Shaw, University of the West Indies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781842779729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40592878436558,"sku":"9781842779729","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_a3885489-8394-49a3-b30a-99083c4506fa.jpg?v=1637776594","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781842779729","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}