Neoliberalism and globalization in Africa : contestations from the embattled continent / edited by Joseph Mensah.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Mensah, Joseph, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Globalization--Africa.
• Globalization.
• Neoliberalism.
• Africa.
• Neoliberalism--Africa.
• Africa--Economic conditions--1960-.
• Economic conditions.
• Africa--Social conditions--1960-.
• Social conditions.

Physical Description:

viii, 278 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

The outcomes of globalization are neither smooth nor unilinear; rather, they are dialectical, multifaceted, uneven, and sometimes chaotic, pointing in several different directions at once. Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa examines Africa's involvement in neoliberal globalization, and highlights the socioeconomic and cultural costs of the grossly unbalanced structure of global wealth and power between Africa and the rest of the world. The narratives in the book pay special attention to contestations-both discursively and in practice. And with the emphasis on contestation, readers will come to appreciate the tactics and maneuvers deployed by African social resistance movements to interrogate and confront contemporary neoliberal globalization.

Contents:

• Introduction: Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa / Joseph Mensah 1
• I Polemics from the Embattled Continent
• 1 Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa: False Diagnoses and Dangerous Prescriptions / Patrick Bond 17
• 2 Cultural Dimensions of Globalization in Africa: A Dialectical Interpenetration of the Local and the Global / Joseph Mensah 33
• 3 The Anticapitalism Movement and African Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization / Edward Osei Kwadwo Prempeh 55
• 4 Gender, States, and Markets in Africa / Eunice N. Sahle 71
• 5 Globalization, Indigenization, and Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa / Francis Adu-Febiri 93
• 6 Africa and the Political Economy of Time-space Compression and Space of Flows: Unfashionable Observations / Joseph Mensah 113
• 7 African States' NEPAD Project: A Global Elite Neoliberal Settlement / Eunice N. Sahle 135
• II Country Case Studies
• 8 Globalization, Cybersexuality among Ghanaian Youth, and Moral Panic / Wisdom J. Tettey 157
• 9 Mercantilism and the Struggle for Late Industrialization in an Age of Globalization: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwan and Uganda / Julius Kiiza 177
• 10 Zimbabwean Land Redistribution!: Globalization and Neoliberal Narratives and Transnational Connections / Blair Rutherford 203
• 11 The South African People's Budget Campaign as a Challenge to Neoliberal Policy Framework and Methodology / Carolyn Bassett 221
• 12 Globalization and Internet Fraud in Ghana: Interrogating the Political Economy of Survival, Subaltern Agency, and Their Ramifications / Wisdom J. Tettey 241
• Conclusion: Neoliberal Globalization and Africa: Recurrent Themes and a Way Forward / Joseph Mensah, Roger Oppong-Koranteng 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0230607810
• 9780230607811

OCLC:

182737314