James Ferguson

Global Shadows

Africa in the Neoliberal World Order

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337058
• ISBN-10: 0822337053
• Artikelnr.: 21497429

Autorenporträt

James Ferguson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Global Shadows: Africa and the World 1
1. Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent 25
2. Paradoxes of Sovereignty and Independence: “Real” and “Pseudo-”
Nation-States and the Depoliticization of Poverty 50
3. De-moralizing Economics: African Socialism, Scientific Capitalism, and
the Moral Politics of Structural Adjustment 69
4. Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond “the State” and “Civil
Society” in the Study of African Politics 89
5. Chryalis: The Life and Death of the African Renaissance in a Zambian
Internet Magazine 113
6. Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the “New World Society” 155
7. Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development 176
8. Governing Extraction: New Spatializations of Order and Disorder in
Neoliberal Africa 194
Notes 211
References 229
Index 249