Development dilemmas in post-apartheid South Africa /

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Imprint:	Scottsville, South Africa : University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2010.
Description:	xi, 424 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Economic development. Economic development. Economic history. Economic policy. Social conditions. South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991- South Africa -- Economic policy. South Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century. South Africa.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8297337

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Other authors / contributors:	Freund, Bill. Witt, Harald.
ISBN:	9781869141899 186914189X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	What is really meant by 'development' in twenty-first-century post-apartheid South Africa? What are the challenges and complexities of real transformation in this context? The contributions in this title address the ways in which people in all sectors of South African society are confronting its development dilemmas: from the energy crisis, environmental sustainability and environmental justice to grassroots social movements, problems of policy implementation, land and agricultural reform and gender inequality. Written by leading academics and activists, this is an essential and illuminating in-depth study of the dilemmas facing post-apartheid South Africa, and the historical, political, economic and social context out of which a new democracy is being built. Collectively, the authors suggest that there is no easy way to attain development; it is a process, not an event, and is fraught with failures and loss, as well as gains."--P. [4] of cover.

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Acknowledgements
1. Development Dilemmas in Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Introduction
2. Macroeconomic Policy and Development: From Crisis to Crisis
Part 1. The Minerals-Energy Complex and its Woes: A Problematic Growth Path
3. Environmental Injustice through the Lens of the Vaal Triangle: Whose Dilemma?
4. Development Dilemmas of Mega-Project Electricity and Water Consumption
5. Darkness and Light: Assessing the South African Energy Crisis
Part 2. The State as the Agent of Change: Conflicts over Implementation
6. Planning and Land-Use Conflicts amidst the Search for Urban Integration: The Case of Wingfield
7. Unintended Consequences: Development Interventions and Socio-Political Change in Rural South Africa
8. Social Citizenship and the Emergence of the New Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Part 3. Struggles over Resources and the Land
9. 'Doing Business with a Development Ethic': 'New Look' Land Redistribution in South Africa
10. Development by Decree: The Impact of Minimum Wage Legislation on a Farming Area in North West Province
11. Land Claims, Land Conservation and the Public Interest in Protected Areas
12. Agrarian Interventions: Corporate Biogenetics on the Makhathini Flats
Part 4. Household Interventions: Gender Issues
13. Social Justice, Care and Developmental Welfare in South Africa: A Capabilities Perspective
14. Decentralising Gender Rights and Entitlements through Integrated Development Planning?
15. Rights and Redistribution: Thinking about the State, Gender and Class in South Africa after the 2006 Zuma Rape Trial
Notes on Contributors
Index

Development dilemmas in post-apartheid South Africa /

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