'Progress' in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country - Rilegato

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0415594650 ISBN 13: 9780415594653

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Riassunto

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands a coherent scholarly response. 'Progress' can be employed as an organising theme across many disciplinary approaches to Zimbabwe's societal devastation. At wider levels too, the concept of progress is fitting. It underpins 'modern', 'liberal' and 'radical' perspectives of development pervading the social sciences and humanities. Yet perceptions of 'progress' are subject increasingly to intensive critical inquiry. Their gruesome end is signified in the political projects of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF. John Gray's Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia indicates this.

It is expected that participants will engage directly in debates about how the idea of 'progress' has informed their disciplines - from political science and history to labour and agrarian studies, and then relate these arguments to the Zimbabwean case in general and their research in particular.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.

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Informazioni sull'autore

David Moore is Professor of Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Norma Kriger is Visiting Fellow at the Institute for African Development, Cornell University, USA.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0415594650
• ISBN 13: 9780415594653
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 168
• Redattore: Moore David, Kriger Norma, Raftopoulos Brian
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania