Governance and the postcolony : views from africa / edited by David Everatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everatt, David, Author, Editor.

Contributor:

Everatt, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Politics and government.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, charts

Place of Publication:

Wits University Press 2019

Summary:

Civil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or 'good' governance - yet they seem to speak past one another. Governance is in danger of losing all meaning precisely because it means many things to different people in varied locations. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, the postcolony takes many forms, reflecting the imperial project with painful accuracy. Offering a set of multidisciplinary analyses of governance in different sectors (crisis management, water, food security, universities), in different locales (including the African Union and specific regional contexts from West Africa, Zambia, to South Africa), and from different theoretical approaches (network to adversarial network governance, and beyond), this volume makes a useful addition to the growing debates on 'how to govern'. It steers away from offering a 'correct' definition of governance, or from promoting a particular position on postcoloniality. It gives no conclusion that neatly sums up all the arguments advanced. Instead, readers are invited to draw their own conclusions based on these differing approaches to and analyses of governance in the postcolony. As a robust, critical assessment of power and accountability in the sub-Saharan context, this collection brings together topical case studies that will be a valuable resource for those working in the field of African international relations, public policy, public management and administration.

Contents:

Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction: Governance in the Postcolony: Time for a rethink? Part I: Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa in Theory and Practice Part II: Sectors and Locations Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 15, 2020).

ISBN:

9781776143467

1776143469