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Record Nr.

UNINA9910972208303321

Autore

Lushaba Lwazi

Titolo

Development as modernity, modernity as development / / Lwazi Siyabonga Lushaba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dakar, : Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2009

ISBN

9786612901324

9781282901322

128290132X

9782869783935

2869783930

9782869783492

2869783493

9782869783027

2869783027

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (80 p.)

Collana

Interventions series Development as modernity, modernity as development

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Modernization

Economic development - Africa

Economic development - Social aspects

Africa Social conditions

Africa Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-72).

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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