Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1776144694 ISBN 13 : 9781776144693

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 across sub-Saharan Africa, and from different theoretical approaches (network to adversarial network governance); 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 neat conclusion, but invites readers 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, Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wits University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1776144694
• ISBN 13: 9781776144693
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Everatt David
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• Personne responsable: non disponible