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

Author/creator Ferguson, James
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Descriptionx, 257 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Globalization.
Africa--Foreign relations. --1960-.
Africa--Foreign economic relations.
Africa--Economic conditions. --1960-.
Africa--Politics and government. --1960-.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-247) and index.
LCCN 2005028226
ISBN0822337053 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822337177 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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