Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations on the Embattled Continent

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa......Page 12
I: Polemics from the Embattled Continent......Page 26
1 Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa: False Diagnoses and Dangerous Prescriptions......Page 28
2 Cultural Dimensions of Globalization in Africa: A Dialectical Interpenetration of the Local and the Global......Page 44
3 The Anticapitalism Movement and African Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization......Page 66
4 Gender, States, and Markets in Africa......Page 82
5 Globalization, Indigenization, and Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 104
6 Africa and the Political Economy of Time-space Compression and Space of Flows: Unfashionable Observations......Page 124
7 African States’ NEPAD Project: A Global Elite Neoliberal Settlement......Page 146
II: Country Case Studies......Page 166
8 Globalization, Cybersexuality among Ghanaian Youth, and Moral Panic......Page 168
9 Mercantilism and the Struggle for Late Industrialization in an Age of Globalization: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwan and Uganda......Page 188
10 Zimbabwean Land Redistribution! Globalization and Neoliberal Narratives and Transnational Connections......Page 214
11 The South African People’s Budget Campaign as a Challenge to Neoliberal Policy Framework and Methodology......Page 232
12 Globalization and Internet Fraud in Ghana: Interrogating the Political Economy of Survival, Subaltern Agency, and Their Ramifications......Page 252
Conclusion: Neoliberal Globalization and Africa: Recurrent Themes and a Way Forward......Page 278
Contributors......Page 282
About the Editor......Page 284
D......Page 286
M......Page 287
T......Page 288
Z......Page 289