Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa

This book looks at Africa's involvement in contemporary neoliberal globalization from a social, economic, political and cultural perspective. It 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.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa	p. 1
Polemics from the Embattled Continent
Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa: False Diagnoses and Dangerous Prescriptions	p. 17
Cultural Dimensions of Globalization in Africa: A Dialectical Interpenetration of the Local and the Global	p. 33
The Anticapitalism Movement and African Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization	p. 55
Gender, States, and Markets in Africa	p. 71
Globalization, Indigenization, and Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 93
Africa and the Political Economy of Time-space Compression and Space of Flows: Unfashionable Observations	p. 113
African States' NEPAD Project: A Global Elite Neoliberal Settlement	p. 135
Country Case Studies
Globalization, Cybersexuality among Ghanaian Youth, and Moral Panic	p. 157
Mercantilism and the Struggle for Late Industrialization in an Age of Globalization: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwan and Uganda	p. 177
Zimbabwean Land Redistribution!: Globalization and Neoliberal Narratives and Transnational Connections	p. 203
The South African People's Budget Campaign as a Challenge to Neoliberal Policy Framework and Methodology	p. 221
Globalization and Internet Fraud in Ghana: Interrogating the Political Economy of Survival, Subaltern Agency, and Their Ramifications	p. 241
Conclusion: Neoliberal Globalization and Africa: Recurrent Themes and a Way Forward	p. 267
Contributors	p. 271
About the Editor	p. 273
Index	p. 275
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Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa Contestations on the Embattled Continent

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