Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations from the Embattled Continent

ISBN-13: 9780230607811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 278 str.

Joseph Mensah

Opis

This book looks at Africa's involvement in contemporary neoliberal globalization, paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, and cultural cost of the unbalanced structure of global wealth and power between Africa and the rest of the world.

Spis treści

Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa: False Diagnoses and Dangerous Prescriptions; P.Bond Cultural Dimensions of Globalization in Africa: A Dialectical Interpenetration of the Local and the Global; J.Mensah The Anti-capitalism Movement and African Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization; E.Osei Kwadwo Prempeh Gender, States, and Markets in Africa; E.N.Sahle The Third Way Alternative in the Midst of Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa; E.Osei Kwadwo Prempeh Globalization, Indigenization and Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa; F.Adu-Febiri Africa and the Political Economy of Globalization/Time-Space Compression: A Critical Overview of Emerging Trends; J.Mensah Globalization and Politics of Transformation in Africa: NEPAD and the Limits of Transnational Elite Developmentalism; E.N.Sahle Globalization, the Economy of Desire, and Cypersexual Activities among Ghanaian Youth; W.Tettey Economic Mercantilism and the Struggle for Late Industrialization in Africa; J.Kiiza Zimbabwe Land Redistribution! Globalization and Neo-Liberal Narratives and Transnational Connections; B.Rutherford

O autorze

F Adu-Febiri P Bond J Kiiza J Mensah E Osei Kwadwo Prempeh B Rutherford E N Sahle W Tettey