Nhakanomics : harvesting knowledge & value for re-gene-ration through social innovation / Ronnie Lessem, Munyaradzi Mawere, Daud Taranhike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lessem, Ronnie, author.

Taranhike, Daud, author.

Mawere, Munyaradzi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development--Africa, Southern.

Community development.

Economic development--Social aspects--Africa, Southern.

Economic development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Masvingo, Zimbabwe : Africa Talent Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only solution to underdevelopment and poverty throughout the world. Instead, the book teases out and theorises the intellectually rutted terrain of development studies, and neo-liberal economics from a decolonial Pan-Africanist perspective. Following a path of social innovation, with perspectives drawn from social anthropology, economics, and business and management studies Nhakanomics is a unique socio-economic approach applicable in the Global South and in Southern Africa in particular. The study argues that the process and substance of nhakanomics with its pre-emphasis on the relational South provides a robust and holistic approach to social innovation and social transformation grounded in relational networks and meshworks. The central idea is a call to re-GENE-rate society, through local Grounding and Origination, and tapping into local-global Emergent Foundations via a newly global Emancipatory Navigation, while ultimately culminating in global-local transformative Effects in four recursive cycles of re-GENE-rating C(K)umusha, Culture, Communication, and Capital after re-Constituting Africa-the 5Cs. With a novel and radical approach the book is an interrogation of neo-liberal economics in the Global South. As such, this book is remarkably handy to students and practitioners in the fields of economics, development studies, political science, science and technology studies, business management, sociology, transformation studies, and development related non-Governmental Organisations working with grassroots communities.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

About the Authors

Contents

Epilogue - NHAKANOMICS: Integral Kumusha, Nhakanomics Academy and Communiversity - The Case of Buhera

Introduction: Nhakanomics versus neo-liberal economics

The Process and substance of Nhakanomics

The Nhakanomics' Goal and Purpose

The importance of Social innovation

The Four Research Paths and the Four Worldviews or Transcultural Realities

Transformational DPFP/GENE Rhythm, the Social Innovation Process and the Communiversity

Re-Constituting Africa

Towards Social Innovation: African Age-Sets

Grounding and Origination: Childhood, Storytelling and Naming (5-12 years)

Emergent Foundation: Youth, Geography and History (13 - 18 years)

Emancipator Navigation: Young Adulthood, Planting and Construction (19 - 30 years)

Effecting Transformation: Midlife and Maturity - Elders' Council (31 -40 years)

Propelling Social Transformation: Council of Elders (41 years onwards)

The 1st Cycle: Re-GENE-rating C (K)umusha

Chivanhu: Learning Community

Being Alive: Community/Pligrimium

Community and market: Community /Academy

Integral Kumusha: Socioeconomic /Laboratory

Integral Kumusha: The Buhera Case

Integral Kumusha to Nhakanomics Research Academy

The Learning Community - Buhera

The Pilgrimium - Cultural and Traditional Centre

The Research Academy: Local Nhakanomics Research Academy

The Social Economic Laboratory - Integral Kumusha Projects

Conclusion

References

PART ONE - INTRODUCING SOCIAL INNOVATION: RE-GENE-RATING THE CONSTITUTION

CHAPTER 1 - SOCIAL INNOVATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: PRE-MODERN AGE-SETS TO TRANS-MODERN COMMUNIVERSITY

1.1 Introduction: Centering Re-GENE-ration

1.1.1/Towards Social Innovation

1.1.2. Uncovering Four Worlds Via Depth Psychology, Philosophy and Economics.

1.1.3/Business/Academe

South/North: Whither the Twain Should Meet

1.1.4/The Corporation is an Alien Form in the South

1.2 Restoration to Re-GENE-ration

1.2.1/Local Identity to Global Integrity

1.2.2. The Need to Draw on Cultural and Philosophical Soils

1.2.3. Economics and Individuation

1.2.3. Transformational DPFP/GENE Rhythm and Social Innovation Process

1.3. Re-constituting Africa

1.3.1. How Should Black People Face Up to their Destiny?

1.3.2. Main Characteristics of Black History

1.3.3. The Original African Constitution

1.4. Towards Social Innovation: African Age-Sets

1.4.1. African Approach to Research-and-Education/Polity-and-Economy

1.4.2. Grounding and Origination: Childhood- Storytelling and Naming (6 -12 years)

1.4.3. Emergent Foundation: Youth - Geography and History (13 to 18 years)

1.4.4. Emancipatory Navigation: Young Adulthood -Planting/Construction (19-30 years)

1.4.5. Effecting Transformation: Midlife and Maturity: Elders' Council (31-40 years)

1.4.6. Re-GENE-rating Age Sets: Educating, CARE-ing, Communiversity

1.6. Conclusion: Reconstituting Ubuntu

1.6.1. The Fundamental Rights of the African People

1.6.2. Ubuntu: Give the World a Human Face

1.6.3. No Future Without Forgiveness

1.6.4. The Re-Generation of Anthropology-and-Economics

1.6.5. Integral Kumusha to Nhakanomics

1.7. References

INTRODUCING SOCIAL INNOVATION

CHAPTER 2 - NHAKANOMICS: BECOMING AN INTENHAKA - ALIGNING ANTHROPOLOGY WITH ECONOMICS

2.1. Introduction

2.1.1. Intenhaka/Integral Kumusha

2.1.2. Nhakanomics and Intenhaka in the South

2.2. The Advent of Modern Economics

2.2.1. The Beginnings of Modern Social Science

2.2.2. Liberalism, Atomism, Self-Regulation

2.2.3. The Advance of Self Interest: Adam Smith - Liberal and Social.

2.2.4. Marxism: Combining Socialism with Historicism

2.2.4. Reverting to Neoclassical Neoliberal Economics

2.3. Economics to Anthropology

2.3.1. A Relational Approach to Economics-and-Anthropology

2.3.3. Bringing to Bear the Wisdom of All the World's Inhabitants

2.3.4. The "Southern" Relational Path to Anthropology and Research

2.3.5. Anthropology: A Discipline Divided

2.4. Integral Anthropology

2.4.1. Social and Cultural Anthropology: North, West and East

2.4.2. Rethinking the Social: The Turn of the South

2.5. Anthropology for the Future

2.5.1. Rich Science versus Impoverished Scientism

2.5.2. Anthropological Limitations: Culture, Relativism, Ethnography

2.5.3. Anthropology's Purpose: Economic Alternatives/Entwined Life/CARE

2.6. Conclusion: Integral Academies - South, East, North, West, Centre

2.6.1. Nhakanomics to Manara

2.6.2. Pundutso to Tanweer

2.6.3. A Science of the Whole

2.7. References

1ST CYCLE NATURE &amp

COMMUNITY RE-GENE-RATING C (K) UMUSHA

CHAPTER 3 - CHIVANHU: LEARNING COMMUNITY, RELATONALITY AND RESILIENCE

3.1. Introduction: Grounding the Relational

3.1.1. Descriptive Method/Local Nature: Inaugurating the Southern Rhythm

3.1.2. A Singular Western Story Continues to be Evangelized

3.1.3. Market Fundamentalism Has Ruinous Effects on African Families

3.1.4. The Gospel of Poverty Dehumanises the Other

3.2. Knowledge, Chivanhu and Decoloniality

3.2.1. Chirungu and Chivanhu

3.2.2. Indigenous and Exogenous

3.2.3. Static and Dynamic

3.3.4. Ontology and Identity

3.3.5. Politics, Economy and Spirituality

3.4. Conclusion: Chivhanu/Nhakanomics - Relationality/Resilience

3.4.1. Underlying Generative Mechanisms

3.4.2. Towards Being Alive

3.5. References

CHAPTER 4 - BEING ALIVE: COMMUNITY/PILGRIMIUM MOVEMENT, KNOWLEDGE AND DESCRIPTION.

4.1. Introduction

4.1.1. Describing Chivanhu to Researching the Phenomenon of Being Alive

4.1.2. Every Property is a Condensed Story

4.1.3. Rethinking the Animate, Reanimating Thought

4.1.4. Point, Line and Counterpoint

4.2. Place, Movement and Knowledge

4.2.1. Wayfaring: Places are Like Knots

4.2.2. Movement: Wayfaring versus Transport

4.2.3. Knowledge: Movement as a Way of Knowing Alongly

4.2.4. Transport, Wayfaring, Knowledge Integration

4.2.5. Every Name Is a Condensation of a Story

4.3. Conclusion: Anthropology is not Ethnography

4.3.1. Acceptable Generalisation and Unacceptable History

4.4. References

CHAPTER 5 - COMMUNITY &amp

MARKET: COMMUNITY/ACADEMY &amp

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ECONOMY

5.1. Introduction

5.1.1. Community and Market/Anthropology and Economics

5.1.2. House and Market

5.1.3. Spheres of Economy

5.2. Anthropological-Economic Value Domains

5.2.1. Communal Base or Foundation

5.2.2. Social and Economic Relationships

5.2.3. Commercial Trade and Accumulated Value

5.2.4. Two Transaction Realms

5.2.5. Exchange and Use, Utility and Demand

5.2.6. Substantive and Formal Rationality

5.2.6. Anthropology, Economics and Innovation

5.3. Economy at the Base

5.3.1. Social Commons to Private Property

5.3.2. Individual and Community

5.3.3. The Concept of Force - La Fuerza - Caring for the Base

5.3.4. Situated Reason at Base

5.3.5. Sharing the Base

5.4. Political Economy Today

5.4.1. The Flexible Economy and Society

5.4.2. Innovating Relations

5.4.3. Corporate Leader to Kumusha Intenhaka

5.5. Turning Standard Economics Inside-Out

5.5.1. The Struggle Between Self-Interest and Mutuality

5.5.2. Increasing Levels of Abstraction

5.5.3. The Strength of the House

5.6. Conclusion: Rethinking Economy - House Therapy

5.7. References.

CHAPTER 6 - INTEGRAL KUMUSHA - COMMUNITY/LABORATORY, OIKOS TO KUMUSHA

6.1. Introduction: Buhera

6.2. Self Sufficiency to Developmental Economy

6.2.1. Communal and Economic Exchange

6.2.2. Oikos, Polis and Household Management

6.2.2. Main Features of a New Subsistence Paradigm

6.2.3. Restoring the Link Between the Market and Subsistence

6.2.4. From Labor to Work and Fulfillment

6.3. Integral Kumusha Concept

6.3.1. To Preserve, Restore and Enhance Zimbabwe's African Nhaka

6.3.2. Overturning the Buhera Label as "A Place for the Poor"

6.3.3. The "Nhaka" Concept and Enterprises Underlying Integral Kumusha

6.4. The Journey to Creating the Buhera Integral Kumusha

6.4.1. Our Nhaka involves CARE-ing for our Ancestors

6.4.2. Community Activation Towards the Integral Kumusha

6.4.3. Awakening Integral Kumusha Consciousness

6.4.4. Institutionalised Innovative Research: Involving Local Schools

6.4.5. Embodiment of the Transformation

6.5. Conclusion: Kumusha, Communitalism, Nhakanomics

6.5.1. Common Future to African Future

6.5.2. Nature Power, Communitalism and Nhakanomics

6.5.3. Psychology is for Back-Room Boys

6.6. References

2nd CYCLE SPIRITUAL GROUNDING: RE-GENE-RATE CULTURE

CHAPTER 7 - HURUDZA: WATER AND SOIL IN HOLY "MATRIMONY" -PILGRIMIUM/COMMUNITY

7.1. Introduction: Land and Liberation

7.1.1. Appear to Learn Nothing and Forgot Nothing About the Errors of their Ways

7.1.2. Situated Reason

7.1.3. Going Back to the Land Question

7.2. Shona Cosmology of Water, Soil and Marriage

7.2.1. Women are Associated with Fertility and Land

7.2.2. Full of Sound and Fury: The Climate Change Discourse

7.2.3. Thou Should Not Only Survive but Thrive if …

7.3. Moving Along His Own Trajectory

7.3.1. Water and Soil in a Holy Matrimony.

7.3.2. The Moral Realm and the Productive Capacity of the Soil.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781779294661

1779294662

OCLC:

1235761404