Global shadows
Subtitle: Africa in the neoliberal world order
By: James Ferguson.
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Globalization; Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960-; Africa -- Foreign economic relations; Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-; Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Global shadows : Africa and the world; title: Globalizing Africa? : observations from an inconvenient continent; title: Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence : "real" and "pseudo-" nation-states and the depoliticization of poverty; title: De-moralizing economies : African socialism, scientific capitalism, and the moral politics of structural adjustment; title: Transnational topographies of power : beyond "the state" and "civil society" in the study of African politics; title: Chrysalis : the life and death of the African renaissance in a Zambian internet magazine; title: Of mimicry and membership : Africans and the "new world society"; title: Decomposing modernity : history and hierarchy after development; title: Governing extraction : new spatializations of order and disorder in neoliberal.