Rethinking and Unthinking Development

Perspectives on Inequality and Poverty in South Africa and Zimbabwe
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-176-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 574 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mpofu, Busani

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni is a Professor and Acting Executive Director of Change Management Unit (CMU), University of South Africa. He is the founder and coordinator of the Africa Decolonial Research Network (ADERN) based in the College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa. He is a decolonial theorist who has published extensively in African history, African politics, and development.

Mpofu, Busani
Busani Mpofu is a senior researcher at AMRI, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, and a Research Associate in the Human Economy program, University of Pretoria. His main research interests are in African economic history, with a focus on Third-world urbanization, urban poverty, inclusive development, development discourse and theory, and Land reform and agrarian histories in Africa.

Busani Mpofu is a senior researcher at AMRI, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa, and a Research Associate in the Human Economy program, University of Pretoria. His main research interests are in African economic history, with a focus on Third-world urbanization, urban poverty, inclusive development, development discourse and theory, and Land reform and agrarian histories in Africa.