Rethinking and Unthinking Development: Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe, 1st Edition

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.Rethinking and Unthinking Development: Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe 1st Edition and published by Berghahn Books. ISBNs for Rethinking and Unthinking Development are 9781789201772, 1789201772 and the print ISBNs are 9781789201765, 1789201764.