{"product_id":"9781848136038","title":"Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation","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 Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136128860400,"sku":"9781848136038","price":36.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848136038_p0.jpg?v=1763749571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848136038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}