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9780415594653: 'Progress' in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country
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ISBN 10: 0415594650 ISBN 13: 9780415594653
Editorial: Routledge, 2013

Sinopsis

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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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.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415594650
ISBN 13 
9780415594653
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
168
Editor
Moore David, Kriger Norma, Raftopoulos Brian
Contacto del fabricante
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