African postcolonial modernity : informal subjectivities and the democratic consensus /

African cultures and politics remain significantly affected by precolonial and postcolonial configurations of modernity, as well as hegemonic global systems. This project explores Africa's conversation with itself and the rest of the world, critiquing universalist notions of democratization.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Osha, Sanya (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:African histories and modernities.
Subjects:
Since 1960
Political culture > Africa.
Globalization > Political aspects > Africa.
Globalization > Social aspects > Africa.
Mondialisation > Aspect politique > Afrique.
Mondialisation > Aspect social > Afrique.
Colonialism & imperialism > Africa.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism > Africa.
African history > Africa.
Globalization > Political aspects
Globalization > Social aspects
Political culture
Politics and government
Globalisierung
Politische Kultur
Soziale Situation
History.
Africa > Politics and government > 1960- > Philosophy.
Afrique > Politique et gouvernement > 1960- > Philosophie.
Africa
Afrika
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The polis : from Greece to an African Athens
  • The order/other of political culture
  • Urbanscapes
  • Youth, violence and the production of knowledge
  • (Mis)understanding Mbekism
  • Global activism and discourses of dispossession in South Africa
  • African sexualities I
  • African sexualities II
  • Conclusion : yearnings of modernity.

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