Format:
xiv, 333 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9781107503229
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1107503221
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9781107103696
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110710369X
Series Statement:
New approaches to African history 16
Content:
"The Idea of Development in Africa challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by tracing the history of ideas, practices, and 'problems' of development used in Africa. In doing so, it offers an innovative approach to examining the history and culture of development through the lens of the development episteme, which has been foundational to the 'idea of Africa' in western discourses since the early 1800s. The study weaves together an historical narrative of how the idea of development emerged with an account of the policies and practices of development in colonial and postcolonial Africa. The book highlights four enduring themes in African development, including their present-day ramifications: domesticity, education, health, and industrialization. Offering a balance between historical overview and analysis of past and present case studies, Elisabeth McMahon and Corrie Decker demonstrate that Africans have always co-opted, challenged, and reformed the idea of development, even as the western-centric development episteme presumes a one-way flow of ideas and funding from the West to Africa."
Note:
Print on demand edition
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Decker, Corrie The idea of development in Africa Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781316217344
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107103696
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107503229
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1017/9781316217344
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