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Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order
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Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order / James Ferguson.
ISBN
9780822337058
0822337053 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822337177 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
x, 257 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 05, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-247) and index.
Contents
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.
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