Rethinking and Unthinking Development
β Busani Mpofu, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
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2019
π Berghahn Books
π English
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Rethinking and Unthinking Development: Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
β Scribed by Busani Mpofu (editor); Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni (editor)
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- Berghahn Books
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- 2019
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β¦ Synopsis
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africaβs former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
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Introduction. Rethinking and Unthinking Development in Africa
Part I. Theory, Concepts and Discourse
Chapter 1. Rethinking Development in the Age of Global Coloniality
Chapter 2. Rethinking and Reclaiming Development in Africa
Chapter 3. Elusive Solutions to Poverty and Inequality: From βTrickle Downβ to βSolidarity Economyβ
Part II. Development, Urbanism and Poverty
Chapter 4. Urban Poverty in Zimbabwe: Historical and Contemporary Issues
Chapter 5. Theory of Poverty or Poverty of Theory? A Decolonial Intervention on Urban Poverty in South Africa
Part III. Empowerment, Regionalism, Identity and Development
Chapter 6. The βNative Returnsβ: Assessing and Reimagining Indigenisation and Black Economic Empowerment as Development Projects in the βPostcolonyβ
Chapter 7. Ethnopolitics and Regionalism, Discipline and Punishment: The Matabeleland Development Question in Postcrisis Zimbabwe
Chapter 8. The Politics of Land Ownership in South Africa: Self-Perceptions and Identities of Backyard Dwellers within the Coloured Community
Part IV. Development, Social Policy and African Families
Chapter 9. Understanding the Conceptualisation of African Families: A Social Policy Development Poser in South Africa
Chapter 10. Socioeconomic and Cultural Barriers to Marital Unions and HIV Incidence Correlates: A Public Policy Poser for South Africa
Chapter 11. Old-Age Cash Grant Pay-out Days: How Beneficiaries Become Victims of Abuse in South Africa
Conclusion. The End of Development and the Rise of Decoloniality as the Future
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