{"product_id":"africas-development-impasse-stefan-andreasson-9781842779729","title":"Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation","description":"\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stefan Andreasson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1842779729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781842779729\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zed Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d","brand":"Stefan Andreasson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48873930195199,"sku":"9781842779729","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/africas-development-impasse-stefan-andreasson-9781842779729","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}