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Author Lushaba, Lwazi

Title Development as modernity, modernity as development / Lwazi Siyabonga Lushaba
Published Dakar : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (72 pages) : illustrations
Series Interventions series
Interventions series.
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Contents; About the Author; Introduction; The Enlightenment and Modernity; Mapping the Genealogy of Modernity; Early Modernity; Capitalist Modernity; Hyper-Modernity (Global Capitalism); Beyond Western Modernity; Conclusion; Notes; References; Mapping the Genealogy of Modernity
Summary This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. The book i
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-72)
Notes Also published in French as: Le développement synonyme de modernité, la modernité synonyme de développement
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Subject Modernization
Economic development -- Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Economic development -- Social aspects
Politics and government
Social conditions
SUBJECT Africa -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001574
Africa -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001570
Subject Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9782869783027
2869783027
9782869783935
2869783930