{"product_id":"progress-in-zimbabwe-david-moore-9780415594653","title":"'Progress' in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country","description":"\u003cp\u003eZimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation. At wider levels too, the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins 'modern', 'liberal' and 'radical' perspectives of development pervading the social sciences and humanities. Yet perceptions of 'progress' are subject increasingly to intensive critical inquiry. Their gruesome end is signified in the political projects of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF. John Gray's \u003cem\u003eBlack Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia\u003c\/em\u003e indicates this.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is expected that participants will engage directly in debates about how the idea of 'progress' has informed their disciplines - from political science and history to labour and agrarian studies, and then relate these arguments to the Zimbabwean case in general and their research in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book was published as a special issue of the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Contemporary African Studies\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415594650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415594653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 7.00w x 0.60d","brand":"David Moore","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48112895885567,"sku":"9780415594653","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f028c72-f3c0-4306-ae1f-8367654de5e2.jpg?v=1769611669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/progress-in-zimbabwe-david-moore-9780415594653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}