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Securitising monstrous bottoms in the age of posthuman carnivalesque? : decolonising the environment, human beings & African heritages /
Placing security studies in the context of contemporary discourses about the "colonial comeback" and posthumanism, this book postulates the notion of staticide which avers that the effacement of African state sovereignty is crucial for the security of the oncoming empire. Understood in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mankon, Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon :
Langaa RPCIG,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Chapter One: Security in the Age of Post-Humanist Relational Ontologies? A Decolonial Introduction
- Introduction
- Securitising posthuman actors
- Conceptualising security
- Posthumanism and insecurities arising from imperial entanglements and assemblages
- Relationality and the disposability of insecure human subjects
- Outlines of the chapters
- References
- Chapter Two: Theorising Staticide and Imperial Escapist Security: A Decolonial Perspective
- Introduction
- Manufacturing state-phobia: Culling Africans from sovereignty and autonomy
- Imperial escapism and genocide
- Camouflaging evil via relational theories: Sensing an oncoming 21st century genocide
- Empire in escapist mode: Distinguishing the security of slave-drivers from that of the enslaved
- Ontological insecurity: The security of the enslaved and colonised
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Three: Technology, New Eugenics and the 21st Century Colonial Comeback: Implications for African Security
- Introduction
- Eugenics, the old and the new chains of enslavement: The colonial comeback
- Chained in the Internet of Things
- Chipification and cheapification of African lives and institutions
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Four: Colonial Religious Terrorism and the Desecration of African Sacred Groves/Shrines: Implications for African Human Security in Matabeleland Region, Zimbabwe
- Introduction
- An overview of missionary stations in Matabeleland
- The cosmo-vision of African religion and spirituality
- Effects of colonial missionaries on Matabeleland sacred groves and shrines
- Effects of colonial missionaries on sacred groves and shrines in Matabeleland South Province
- Effects of colonial missionaries on sacred groves and shrines in Matabeleland North Province
- Revitalisation strategies of African religion
- References
- Chapter Five: Entanglements Between State, Human and Environmental Security? Implications for Africans
- State security
- Human security
- Environmental security
- Pre-colonial African states and the entanglements of state, human and environmental security
- Constricted colonial 'state security'
- Dawn of independence
- State, human and environmental security nexuses in post colonial Africa
- Nigeria's Niger Delta states
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Six: Socio-economic and Environmental Insecurity in Zimbabwe: The Case of Chinese Mining Activities in Marange
- History of economic and political relations between China and Zimbabwe
- Environmental sustainability
- Social sustainability
- Economic sustainability
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter Seven: Towards the Securitisation of African Sacred Dance Practices: The Case of Neocolonial Destruction of Mhande in Zimbabwe
- Introduction