Neoliberalism and globalization in Africa: contestations on the embattled continent

This book looks at Africa's involvement in contemporary neoliberal globalization, paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, and cultural cost of the unbalanced structure of global wealth and power between Africaand the rest of the world. INDICE: - Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa: False Diagnoses and Dangerous Prescriptions; P.Bond - Cultural Dimensions of Globalization in Africa:A Dialectical Interpenetration of the Local and the Global; J.Mensah - The Anti-capitalism Movement and African Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization; E.Osei Kwadwo Prempeh - Gender, States, and Markets in Africa; E.N.Sahle - The Third Way Alternative in the Midst of Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa; E.Osei Kwadwo Prempeh - Globalization, Indigenization and Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa; F.Adu-Febiri - Africa and the Political Economy of Globalization/Time-Space Compression: A Critical Overview of Emerging Trends; J.Mensah - Globalization and Politics of Transformation in Africa: NEPAD and the Limits of Transnational Elite Developmentalism; E.N.Sahle - Globalization, the Economy of Desire, and Cypersexual Activities among Ghanaian Youth; W.Tettey - Economic Mercantilism and the Struggle for Late Industrialization in Africa; J.Kiiza - Zimbabwe Land Redistribution! Globalization and Neo-Liberal Narratives and Transnational Connections; B.Rutherford

• ISBN: 978-0-230-60781-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés