Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa - Couverture souple

 
9781776143443: Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa
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ISBN 10 : 1776143442 ISBN 13 : 9781776143443
Editeur : Wits University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Civil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or 'good' governance - yet they seem to speak past one another. Governance is in danger of losing all meaning precisely because it means many things to different people in varied locations.
This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, the postcolony takes many forms, reflecting the imperial project with painful accuracy. Offering a set of multidisciplinary analyses of governance in different sectors (crisis management, water, food security, universities), in different locales (including the African Union and specific regional contexts from West Africa, Zambia, to South Africa), and from different theoretical approaches (network to adversarial network governance, and beyond), this volume makes a useful addition to the growing debates on 'how to govern'. It steers away from offering a 'correct' definition of governance, or from promoting a particular position on postcoloniality. It gives no conclusion that neatly sums up all the arguments advanced. Instead, readers are invited to draw their own conclusions based on these differing approaches to and analyses of governance in the postcolony.
As a robust, critical assessment of power and accountability in the sub-Saharan context, this collection brings together topical case studies that will be a valuable resource for those working in the field of African international relations, public policy, public management and administration.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Everatt is the Head of the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

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Éditeur
Wits University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1776143442
ISBN 13 
9781776143443
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
340
Éditeur
Everatt David
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Personne responsable
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9781776144693: Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa

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ISBN 10 :  1776144694 ISBN 13 :  9781776144693
Editeur : Wits University Press, 2019
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