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Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order /

"Both on the continent and off, "Africa" is spoken of in terms of crisis: as a place of failure and seemingly insurmountable problems, as a moral challenge to the international community. What, though, is really at stake in discussions about Africa, its problems, and its place in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferguson, James, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Global shadows : Africa and the world
  • Globalizing Africa? : observations from an inconvenient continent
  • Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence : "real" and "pseudo-" nation-states and the depoliticization of poverty
  • De-moralizing economies : African socialism, scientific capitalism, and the moral politics of structural adjustment
  • Transnational topographies of power : beyond "the state" and "civil society" in the study of African politics
  • Chrysalis : the life and death of the African renaissance in a Zambian internet magazine
  • Of mimicry and membership : Africans and the "new world society"
  • Decomposing modernity : history and hierarchy after development
  • Governing extraction : new spatializations of order and disorder in neoliberal Africa.