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Grid-locked African economic sovereignty : decolonising the neo-imperial socio-economic and legal force-fields in the 21st century /
The emergent so-called "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is regarded by some as a panacea for bringing about development to Africans. This book dismisses this flawed reasoning. Surfacing how "investors" are actually looting and plundering Africa; how the industrial internet of thing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon :
Langaa RPCIG,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; About the Authors; Contents; Foreword; Chapter One
- Explosive Economic Minefields in Invisible Neo-Imperial Force-fields: An Introduction to Decolonising Economies in Africa; Introduction; Economic Terrorism and the Ongoing Destabilisation of Africa; Chapter Outlines; References; Chapter Two
- Anticipating African Economic Futures
- Or Is It Time to Look in the Rear View Mirrors? Land Restitution, Unemployment and the Figure of the Posthuman; Introduction; Vanishing Pasts and Stolen Futures: Anticipating African Economic Futurity
- Economic Saviours or Sacrificers? Posthumanist Economies and Mirages of DecolonisationConclusion; References; Chapter Three
- Re-Africanisation of Economies through Ubuntu? Business and Kinship Obligations in Urban South Africa; Introduction; An African Pre-colonial Era History of Doing Business; Beyond Reciprocal Cooperation as a Form of Ubuntu and Capital; The Reciprocal Element of Ubuntu and Obligations; Reciprocal Cooperation Influences on Kinship Relations and Obligations; The Paradox of Balancing Kin and Business Obligations within Neoliberal Spaces
- The Variance between Western and African Approaches to Resolving Family ConflictsConclusion; References; Chapter Four
- The Land as Economy and Economy as Land: Towards a Reappraisal of the Political Economy of Land Repossession in Contemporary South Africa; Introduction; The Struggling Neo-colonial Economy, Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty; Understanding "Land Reform", Decolonisation, Pan-Africanism and Land Repossession in South Africa; Bitterness against the Racial Past, Land Activists and the Expropriation Rhetoric; Failures to Restore the Land Back to Africans
- Whose Land is it anyway? Understanding Land as a Resource and the Anti-land Repossession Rhetoric in South AfricaConclusion; References; Chapter Five
- Displacements in Colonial Zimbabwe: Contestations, Meanings, Consequences and Some Lessons; Introduction; Conceptualising Displacement; Historicising Colonial Displacements in Zimbabwe; The Meanings of Land Dispossession and Displacements; Displacement as Loss of Land, Livelihoods, Mining and Farming Rights; Displacement as Loss of Identity, History and Belonging; Displacement as Permanent Disempowerment and Enslavement
- Displacement as Loss of Cultural Heritage and Indigenous 'Knowledges'Conclusion; References; Chapter Six
- Agriculture and Africa's Development Agenda; Introduction; Is Africa's Dependence on Agriculture the Cause of Poverty in the Continent?; Way Forward on Dealing with Technocratic (Neoliberal) Agenda for Agricultural Development; Conclusion; References; Chapter Seven
- Growth Orientated African-centred Agriculture, Cooperatives and Policy Reforms: Towards Poverty Alleviation and Food Security; Introduction; Co-operative Movement and Socio-Economic Contribution in South Africa