Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity [[electronic resource] /] / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Ndlovu-Gatsheni Sabelo J
|
| Titolo: |
Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity [[electronic resource] /] / Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
|
| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 327.1096 |
| Soggetto topico: | Globalization - Political aspects - Africa |
| Nationalism - Africa | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Africa Politics and government 1960- |
| Africa Economic conditions 1960- | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Empire, global coloniality and African subjectivity |
| ISBN: | 0-85745-952-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453111803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |