Africa and the New Global Order

Governance, Capacity, and Sustainable Development
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-0-367-43758-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Rethinking Development

This book examines how African states and societies are navigating a changing global order, and what this demands of the institutions charged with delivering sustainable development.

Governance quality is widely regarded as decisive for development outcomes, but it is usually assessed against a narrow template of formal institutions which fail to capture African customary authority, kinship obligations and informal norms. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of contributors, this book argues that sustainable development in Africa is ultimately a governance challenge — though not in the terms donors have conventionally set, turning instead on state capability, legitimacy, geopolitical positioning, and inclusive resilience. Chapters address state-building and informality, traditional leaders as mediators of gender and sustainability agendas, AI-enabled disaster preparedness, agricultural transformation and food security, the future of work, universal health coverage and health technology assessment, South-South cooperation with China and India, and donor-funded citizen accountability initiatives. Together they offer a politically grounded account of what good governance and home-grown solutions might look like across diverse African settings.

This book will be a valuable resource for students and researchers of politics, sociology, economics, development studies and African studies, as well as for policymakers, aid practitioners and civil society practitioners and activists.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banik, Dan

Kayuni, Happy Mickson

Adolfsson, Johanna S.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION 1. Africa in a Changing Global Order: Governance, Geopolitics, and Institutional Change  PART 1: GEOPOLITICS, GOVERNANCE, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT  2. Rethinking state-building and legitimacy in Africa: informality, authority, and the capacity to govern sustainable futures  3. Mediating gender, development and sustainability: Chiefs and contested authority in contemporary Malawi  PART 2: GOVERNING TRANSITIONS FOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT  4. Digital Frontiers of Climate Resilience: The Governance of AI-Enabled Disaster Preparedness in East Africa  5. Agricultural Transformation and Food Security in Africa: Challenges, Lessons, and Future Prospects  6. Governing Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work in Sub-Saharan Africa: Job Losses, Decent Work and Equality in a time of Technological Change  7. Universal Health Coverage in Africa: Moving beyond financial constraints  8. Evaluating What Matters: Health Technology Assessment as a Governance Tool for Inclusive Health Transitions  PART 3: AFRICA IN THE GLOBAL ARENA  9. South-South Cooperation and African Development: China, India, and the Reconfiguration of Global Governance  10. Donors and ‘Induced’ Africa Agency–Rebooting Governance devices in Malawi through Citizen Voice and Actions Initiatives

Über Autor(innen)

Dan Banik is professor of political science and director of the Oslo SDG Initiative at the Centre for Global Sustainability, University of Oslo, Norway. He is also Academic Director of the Democracy Hub at Circle U. European University Alliance and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria.

Happy Mickson Kayuni is a professor of political science at the Politics and Government Department, University of Malawi, Malawi. He is also an extraordinary professor at the Centre for Afrocentric Governance of Public Affairs, North-West University, South Africa.

Johanna Sofia Adolfsson is a postdoctoral fellow at the University Oslo. Adolfsson’s main academic interests include how EuroAmerican psychology as a dominant academic field affects people in non-Western cultures, particularly through its strong influence on Global development policy agendas. Adolfsson has worked on research projects in Eastern Africa since 2016.