ISBN:
9789462098367
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (Approx. 20 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Series Statement:
Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2005-2017, ISBN: 9789004394001
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Remapping Africa in the Global Space: Propositions for Change
Keywords:
Energy
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Energy, general
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Energy policy.
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Energy and state.
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Electric power production.
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World politics 21st century
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Africa Economic conditions 21st century
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Africa Politics and government 21st century
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Africa Strategic aspects
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Afrika
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Globalisierung
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Sozialer Wandel
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Politischer Wandel
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Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Abstract:
"What are the benefits and risks for Africa’s participation in the globalisation nexus? Remapping Africa in the Global Space is a visionary and interdisciplinary volume that restores Africa’s image using a multidisciplinary lens. It incorporates disciplines such as sociology, education, global studies, economics, development studies, political science and philosophy to explore and theorise Africa’s reality in the global space and to deconstruct the misperceptions and narratives that often infantilise Africa’s internal and international relations. The contributions to this volume are a hybrid of both ‘outsider’ and ‘insider’ perspectives that create a balanced critical discourse that can provide ‘standard’ paradigms that can adequately explain, predict, or prevent Africa’s current misperceptions and myths about the African ‘crisis’ and ‘failure’ status. The authors provide a holistic, and perhaps, anticolonial and anti-hegemonic perspective that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, policy makers in both governmental and non-governmental organisations and engage some alternative analyses and possibilities for socio-politico and economic advancement in Africa. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on continental trends on various subjects and concerns of paramount importance to globalisation and development in Africa. “The book is brilliant! Remapping Africa in the Global Space: Propositions for Change explores Africa from the perspective of academics specialised in subject matters pertaining to the continent. In this age of globalisation, I find this book invaluable. It is a good read as it dissects analyses and presents issues affecting the continent in an articulate and cogent way. I highly recommend its use in academic institutions!” – Magnus Mfoafo-M’Carthy, Assistant Professor, Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work; Fellow of Tshepo Institute for the Study of Contemporary Africa, Wilfrid Laurier University, Kitchener, Canada “More than anything else, Remapping Africa in the Global Space: Propositions for Change speaks to the complex, multifaceted, and interfused character of the development challenges and prospects of Africa. Indeed, few books have examined contemporary Africa as comprehensively and insightfully as this edited volume; it is widely welcomed in the African academic, scholarly and research arena.” – Joseph Mensah, Professor of Geography, York University, Toronto "
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION:Africa in the Global Space; AFRICA IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC SPACE; FOREIGN AID AND ASSISTANCE DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN STABILITY IN THE GLOBAL SPACE; ORGANISATION OF THE BOOK; REFERENCES; SECTION I:NATION-STATE, IMMIGRATION AND THE DIASPORA; 1. THE AFRICAN STATE:Can the Future be Stable?; INTRODUCTION; STATEHOOD AND THE DIFFICULTY OF CREATING STATES; COPING WITH THE COMPOSITION AND DIVERSITY OF STATES; ESTABLISHING DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICAN STATES
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THE CHALLENGES OF REFORMING AFRICAN STATESCONCLUSIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 2. TRIALS OF NATIONAL COHESION:Root Causes of Violence in Côte d´Ivoire; INTRODUCTION; FROM 'AKANITÉ' TO 'IVOIRITÉ' OR THE NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE; ETHNO-RELIGIOUS UNDERPINNINGS OF 'IVOIRITÉ'; "IVOIRITÉ," ITS IMPLICATION AND VIOLENCE; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; 3. WORKING WITH AFRICAN COMMUNITIES IN THE DIASPORA THROUGH A UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK:A Community Development Model; INTRODUCTION; DEFINING UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY COLLABORATION; THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN THE COMMUNITY; AFRICANS IN ONTARIO AND CANADA
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UCC WITH AFRICAN COMMUNITIES: MOBILISING LEADERSIMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; LESSONS LEARNED; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 4. GLOBALISATION, GLOBALISED LABOUR MARKETS:Migration and Translocations in Sub-Saharan Africa; INTRODUCTION; GLOBALISATION AND LABOUR MARKETS; GLOBALISED MIGRATION AND TRANSLOCATIONS; TRANSLOCATIONS AND TRANS-CITIZENSHIP; IMMIGRATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; SECTION II:CHALLENGES AND PROPOSITIONS TO DEVELOPMENT; 5. EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT:An Africanist Postcolonial Perspective; INTRODUCTION; A COMPROMISED MEANING OF DEVELOPMENT
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CRITICISMS OF HEGEMONIC DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSEUNIVERSALISATION OF SELECTED HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT; DISTORTED CONCEPTIONS OF INDIGENOUS AFRICAN EDUCATION FOR DEVELOPMENT; THE DIALECTIC CONNECTION BETWEEN EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 6. GLOBALISATION, FOREIGN AID AND DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA:Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Options; INTRODUCTION; GLOBALISATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS; GLOBALISATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; FOREIGN AID AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE ERA OF GLOBALISATION IN SSA; IS AID BASIC TO DEVELOPMENT?; CONCLUDING REMARKS
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REFERENCES7. CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY (SADC):Responses in the Age of Globalisation; INTRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE IN SADC IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALISATION; SADC'S RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 8. HEALTH AS AN AGENT FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT:From Colonialism Architectures to Renaissance; INTRODUCTION; LAYING THE FOUNDATION OF THE PROBLEMS; THE PLAGUED HEALTH MDGS: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF RENAISSANCE OF AFRICA; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES
Description / Table of Contents:
SECTION III:EDUCATIONAL PROPOSITIONS IN THE GLOBAL SPACE
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-6209-836-7
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