{"product_id":"9781842779712","title":"Africa's Development Impasse: Towards a Political Economy of Transformation","description":"\u003cbr\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.\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039146131696,"sku":"9781842779712","price":134.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781842779712_p0.jpg?v=1763742650","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781842779712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}