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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
James Ferguson is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt and The Anti-Politics Machine: “Development,” Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho . He is a coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, also published by Duke University Press, and of Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Global Shadows: Africa and the World 1 1. Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent 25 2. Paradoxes of Sovereignty and Independence: “Real” and “Pseudo-” Nation-States and the Depoliticization of Poverty 50 3. De-moralizing Economics: African Socialism, Scientific Capitalism, and the Moral Politics of Structural Adjustment 69 4. Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond “the State” and “Civil Society” in the Study of African Politics 89 5. Chryalis: The Life and Death of the African Renaissance in a Zambian Internet Magazine 113 6. Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the “New World Society” 155 7. Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development 176 8. Governing Extraction: New Spatializations of Order and Disorder in Neoliberal Africa 194 Notes 211 References 229 Index 249
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Global Shadows: Africa and the World 1 1. Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent 25 2. Paradoxes of Sovereignty and Independence: “Real” and “Pseudo-” Nation-States and the Depoliticization of Poverty 50 3. De-moralizing Economics: African Socialism, Scientific Capitalism, and the Moral Politics of Structural Adjustment 69 4. Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond “the State” and “Civil Society” in the Study of African Politics 89 5. Chryalis: The Life and Death of the African Renaissance in a Zambian Internet Magazine 113 6. Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the “New World Society” 155 7. Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development 176 8. Governing Extraction: New Spatializations of Order and Disorder in Neoliberal Africa 194 Notes 211 References 229 Index 249
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