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Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order

✍ Scribed by James Ferguson

Publisher
Duke University Press
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Leaves
257
Edition
3rd printing
Category
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✦ Table of Contents

Content: Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Global Shadows: Africa and the World 11. Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent 252. Paradoxes of Sovereignty and Independence: "Real" and "Pseudo-" Nation-States and the Depoliticization of Poverty 503. De-moralizing Economics: African Socialism, Scientific Capitalism, and the Moral Politics of Structural Adjustment 694. Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond "the State" and "Civil Society" in the Study of African Politics 895. Chryalis: The Life and Death of the African Renaissance in a Zambian Internet Magazine 1136. Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the "New World Society" 1557. Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development 1768. Governing Extraction: New Spatializations of Order and Disorder in Neoliberal Africa 194Notes 211References 229Index 249

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