ISBN:
9781789201772
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
288 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
Southern African Development;Legacy of Colonialism;Development Models;South Africa;Zimbabwe;Economic development;Rethinking and Unthinking;Coloniality;Inequality;Poverty
Abstract:
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction: Rethinking and Unthinking Development in Africa -- Busani Mpofu and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- PART I: THEORY, CONCEPTS AND DISCOURSE -- Chapter 1. Rethinking Development in the Age of Global Coloniality -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- Chapter 2. Rethinking and Reclaiming Development in Africa -- Vusi Gumede -- Chapter 3. Elusive Solutions to Poverty and Inequality: From ‘Trickle Down’ to ‘Solidarity Economy’ -- Tidings P. Ndhlovu -- PART II: DEVELOPMENT, URBANISM AND POVERTY -- Chapter 4. Urban Poverty in Zimbabwe: Historical and Contemporary Issues -- Rudo Barbra Gaidzanwa -- Chapter 5. Theory of Poverty or Poverty of Theory?: A Decolonial Intervention on Urban Poverty in South Africa -- Raymond Nyapokoto and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni -- PART III: EMPOWERMENT, REGIONALISM, IDENTY AND DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 6. The ‘Native Returns’: Assessing and Re-imagining Indigenisation and Black Economic Empowerment as Development Projects in the ‘Post-colony’ -- Tamuka Charles Chirimambowa and Tinashe Lukas Chimedza -- Chapter 7. Ethno-Politics and Regionalism in Post-colonial Zimbabwe: The Matabeleland Development Question and the Imperative for Development Redress after the Crisis -- Vusilizwe Thebe -- Chapter 8. The Politics of Land Ownership in South Africa: Self-Perceptions and Identities of Backyard Dwellers within the Coloured Community -- Wendy Isaacs-Martin -- PART IV: DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL POLICY AND AFRICAN FAMILIES -- Chapter 9. Understanding the Conceptualisation of African Families: A Social Policy Development Poser in South Africa -- Busani Mpofu -- Chapter 10. Socio-economic and Cultural Barriers to Marital Unions and HIV Incidence Correlates: A Public Policy Poser for South Africa? -- Busani Ngcaweni -- Chapter 11. Old Persons Cash Grant Pay-out Days: How Beneficiaries Become Victims of Abuse in South Africa -- Gloria Sauti -- Afterword: End of Development and Rise of Decoloniality as the Future -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Busani Mpofu -- References -- Index --
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