LEADER 03467nam 2200505 450 001 9910476829803321 005 20221223090718.0 010 $a1-00-315773-4 010 $a1-000-39669-X 010 $a1-003-15773-4 035 $a(CKB)5590000000466593 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000000466593 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68096 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000466593 100 $a20221223d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa $ethe coloniality of data /$fEveristo Benyera 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2021 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (212 pages) 225 1 $aRoutledge Contemporary Africa 311 $a0-367-74415-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aData coloniality: A decolonial perspective of Africa and the 4IR -- Historicising Africa's subjugation -- Contextualising the colonial project in Africa -- Data mining, harvesting and datafication -- Networks, big data and data coloniality: Whither Africa's sovereignty? -- The 4IR as the mother of all destructions and accumulations -- Mapping Africa's destiny in the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Africa's eunuch condition and the omnipresent footprints of the four industrial revolutions. 330 $a"This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within the international community. In this book, the author argues that the looting of Africa that started with human capital and then natural resources, now continues unabated via data and digital resources looting. Developing on the notion of "Coloniality of Data", the fourth industrial revolution is postulated as the final phase which will conclude Africa's peregrination towards recolonisation. Global cartels, networks of coloniality, and tech multi-national corporations have turned Big Data into capital, which is left unguarded in Africa as the continent lacks the strong institutions necessary to regulate the mining of data. Written from a decolonial perspective, this book employs three analytical pillars of coloniality of power, knowledge and being. It concludes with an assessment of what could be done to help to turn the fourth industrial revolution from a curse into a resource. Highlighting the crippling continuation of asymmetrical global power relations, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, politics and international political economy"-- Provided by publisher. 606 $aInternational business enterprises$zAfrica 606 $aData mining$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$xForeign economic relations$zEurope 610 $aColonialism and imperialism 610 $aPolitics and government 610 $aInternational relations 615 0$aInternational business enterprises 615 0$aData mining 676 $a337.604 700 $aBenyera$b Everisto$01271720 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910476829803321 996 $aThe Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Recolonisation of Africa$92995791 997 $aUNINA