Overview
- Outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts
- Provokes debate around interdisciplinary perspectives on cooperatives
- Contributes to the body of knowledge about cooperatives in Africa
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The book outlines how cooperatives can be used as a tool for development and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts. This book also examines the successes and challenges for emerging and existing cooperatives in Africa, while delivering both practical lessons and insights into the theory. It presents completely new materials on the cooperative movement, against a backdrop of increasing global recognition of the roles of cooperatives and collective action in socio-economic development. Readers are invited to consider how, as an economic model that seeks to advance member collective interests, cooperatives are invaluable tools for human, economic and social development. Social and human geographers find this a remarkably impactful contribution to the literature surrounding cooperatives in Africa and cooperative theory in general. Policy experts and students also find the research informative and insightful.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof.Okem Andrew Emmanuel is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu Natal. He has extensive research experiences in the field of policy development, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. He has consulted on projects for a number of local and international organisations. His research interests is in the area of local economic development and water and sanitation.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Cooperatives
Book Subtitle: Lessons for Cooperatives in South Africa
Editors: Andrew Emmanuel Okem
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34216-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34215-3Published: 11 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-34216-0Published: 29 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2211-4165
Series E-ISSN: 2211-4173
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 106
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Economic Geography, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions)