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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN-100230607810
ISBN-139780230607811
eBay Product ID (ePID)64060152
Product Key Features
Number of PagesIX, 278 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNeoliberalism and Globalization in Africa : Contestations on the Embattled Continent
Publication Year2009
SubjectInternational Relations / Trade & Tariffs, Globalization, Development / Economic Development, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism, World / African
TypeTextbook
AuthorJoseph A. Mensah
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight20.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-021628
Dewey Edition22
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal303.48/26
Table Of ContentAccumulation 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
SynopsisThis 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 Africa and the rest of the world.