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Values and Development in Southern Africa /

Development has been on Africaís agenda for a long time but progress has been both varied and limited, partly due to the diverse levelsof the discussions ont he challenges and the interventions for tackling them. Africaís greatest challenge is the uneven development within and between its countrie...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Mhloyi, Marvellous M., Mekgwe, Pinkie, Müller, Hans-Peter, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2013
Colección:Codesria book series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-255). 
505 0 |a Section I. Introducing the issues -- 1. Introduction / Hans Müller, Pinkie Mekgwe and Marvellous Mhloyi -- 2. Background, problem and methodology / Hans Müller, Hennie Kotze and Stefanie Schulein -- Section II. Theoretical reflections -- 3. Cultural values and development in theory and practice / Hans Müller ; with Tania van Heerden -- 4. Cosmology, power, human relationships and human qualities / Hans Müller ; with Tania van Heerden -- Section III. Exploratory empirical investigations -- 5. Linking values and development : an empirical analysis / Hennie Kotze and Stefanie Schulein -- 6. Values, development and demography / Marvellous Mhloyi, Noah Taruberekera and Musonda Lemba -- 7. Human values, African values, Southern African values? on work / Hans Müller ; with Tania van Heerden -- 8. Conclusion / Hans Müller, Pinkie Mekgwe and Marvellous Mhloyi -- Appendix. Country reports -- References. 
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520 |a Development has been on Africaís agenda for a long time but progress has been both varied and limited, partly due to the diverse levelsof the discussions ont he challenges and the interventions for tackling them. Africaís greatest challenge is the uneven development within and between its countries, and the pressing issues of extreme poverty in southern Africa, and the continent as a whole. Poverty causes its victims to suffer social exclusion and political repression. In addition, societies that experience poverty are also mostly under continuous threat of ecological disasters and diseases. All poor people are therefore plagued by loss of freedom and dignity, and are often unable to participate effectively in the political, economic, legal and social processes of their countries. This book focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of development dynamics and, in particular, the role of values in shaping development. Values are at the core of the hopes and aspirations of individuals, communities and societies. The book therefore explains the values that motivate and inform African communities and societies, with a view to facilitating a dialogue about sustainable development in Africa among academics, intellectuals, policy and decisionmakers, and the communities. It also investigates the social and cultural dynamics of development in Africa, as a better alternative to earlier studies that blame African culture for poverty and exclude the people of Africa in their definition of developments in the continent. The significance of this book lies in its provision of a theoretical argument, from empirical perspective, on the role of values in the development of Africa; an argument that is capable of facilitating a dialogue about African development, which obviously proves more useful than either the imposition of a technical process or the announcement of a normative framework. 
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