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Author Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., author.

Title Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages)
Contents Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity; Empire, Global Coloniality and African Subjectivity -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni; Contents; Preface; PART 1 GLOBAL IMPERIAL DESIGNS AND EMPIRE; Chapter 1 Empire and Global Coloniality; Chapter 2 Global Imperial Designs and Pan-Africanism; Chapter 3 Coloniality of Power and African Development; PART 2 SUBJECT, SUBJECTION AND SUBJECTIVITY; Chapter 4 The Ticklish Subject in Africa; Chapter 5 Subjection and Subjectivity in South Africa; Chapter 6 Nationality of Power in Zimbabwe; PART 3 COLONIALITY, KNOWLEDGE AND NATIONALISM
Chapter 7 Coloniality of Knowledge and Higher EducationChapter 8 The African National Project and National Question; PART 4 CONCLUSION; Chapter 9 Global Crisis and Africa Today; References; Index
Summary Global imperial designs, which have been in place since conquest by western powers, did not suddenly evaporate after decolonization. Global coloniality as a leitmotif of the empire became the order of the day, with its invisible technologies of subjugation continuing to reproduce Africa's subaltern position, a position characterized by perceived deficits ranging from a lack of civilization, a lack of writing and a lack of history to a lack of development, a lack of human rights and a lack of democracy. The author's sharply critical perspective reveals how this epistemology of alterity has k
Analysis Colonial History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Globalization -- Political aspects -- Africa
Nationalism -- Africa
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Economic history
Globalization -- Political aspects
Nationalism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001552
Subject Africa
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012032901
ISBN 9780857459527
085745952X
0857459511
9780857459510
9781299777903
1299777902