Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order / James Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferguson, James, 1959-2025.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Africa--Foreign relations--1960-.

Africa.

Africa--Foreign economic relations.

Africa--Economic conditions--1960-.

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Physical Description:

X, 257 s. ill.

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-247) and index.

ISBN:

9786613022226

9781283022224

1283022222

9780822387640

0822387646

OCLC:

608111468