Jennifer Keahey, PhD

Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Justice Studies

This book rethinks development in three interrelated ways:

It disrupts a polarized political discourse by engaging the cases of post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa to unpack the similar impulses of colonial, command, and capitalist economies.

It shares Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous histories, values, knowledges and practices, with focus on Latvian and South African efforts to put agrarian alternatives into action.

It decolonizes thinking on development, first by unpacking the current existential crisis and then by summarizing the contributions of Latvia and South Africa to the struggle for global justice.