{"product_id":"andreasson-stefan-africa-s-development-impasse-9781842779729","title":"Africa's Development Impasse","description":"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.","brand":"Bloomsbury 3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53620390134102,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781842779729_1.jpg?v=1778606333","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/andreasson-stefan-africa-s-development-impasse-9781842779729","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}