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Grid-locked African Economic Sovereignty: Decolonising the Neo-imperial Socio-economic and Legal Force-fields in the 21st Cen - Couverture souple

 
9789956550302: Grid-locked African Economic Sovereignty: Decolonising the Neo-imperial Socio-economic and Legal Force-fields in the 21st Cen
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ISBN 10 : 9956550302 ISBN 13 : 9789956550302
Editeur : Langaa RPCID, 2019

Synopsis

The emergent so-called "Fourth Industrial Revolution" is regarded by some as a panacea for bringing about development to Africans. This book dismisses this flawed reasoning. Surfacing how "investors" are actually looting and plundering Africa; how the industrial internet of things, the gig economies, digital economies and cryptocurrencies breach African political and economic sovereignty, the book pioneers what can be called anticipatory economics - which anticipate the future of economies. It is argued that the future of Africans does not necessarily require degrowth, postgrowth, postdevelopment, postcapitalism or sharing/solidarity economies: it requires attention to age-old questions about African ownership and control of their resources. Investors have to invest in ensuring that Africans own and control their resources. Further, it is pointed out that the historical imperial structural creation of forced labour is increasingly morphing into what we call the structural creation of forced leisure which is no less lethal for Africans. Because both the structural creation of forced labour and the structural creation of forced leisure are undergirded by transnational neo-imperial plunder, theft, robbery, looting and dispossession of Africans, this book goes beyond the simplistic arguments that Euro-America developed due to the industrial revolutions.

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À propos des auteurs

Tapiwa Victor Warikandwa holds a PhD in International Trade Law, and is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Namibia.

Artwell Nhemachena holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town, and lectures at the University of Namibia.

Nkosinothando Mpofu holds a PhD in Communication Studies and is a Senior Lecturer at the Namibia University of Science and Technology.

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Éditeur
Langaa RPCID
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9956550302
ISBN 13 
9789956550302
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
654
Éditeur
Warikandwa Tapiwa Victor, Nhemachena Artwell, Mpofu Nkosinothando
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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