Ferguson Global Shadows

Africa in the Neoliberal World Order
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8764-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferguson, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.