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UNINA9910149553503321 |
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Public library plans for the book collection |
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[New York, New York] : , : Primary Research Group, Inc., , 2015 |
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2015 |
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1-57440-989-1 |
1-57440-051-7 |
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1 online resource (101 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collection management (Libraries) |
Collection development (Libraries) |
Electronic books |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Study of 62 public libraries exploring their plans for their book collection, including print book acquisition and culling, opinions of eBooks, and allocation of funds for eBooks and print books. |
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UNINA9910807293303321 |
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Ndlovu-Gatsheni Sabelo J |
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Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity / / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013 |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Globalization - Political aspects - Africa |
Nationalism - Africa |
Africa Politics and government 1960- |
Africa Economic conditions 1960- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Part 1. Global imperial designs and empire -- Introduction: empire and global coloniality: towards a decolonial turn -- Global imperial designs and pan-Africanism -- Coloniality of power and African development -- Part 2. Subject, subjection and subjectivity -- The ticklish subject in Africa -- Subjection and subjectivity in South Africa -- Nationality of power in Zimbabwe -- Part 3. Coloniality, knowledge and nationalism -- Coloniality of knowledge and higher education -- African national project and national question -- Part 4. Conclusion -- Global crisis and Africa today. |
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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 |
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