Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa
Beyond the Resource Curse
This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, transnational capital. Instead of focusing on technological zones and the new social assemblages at the actual sites of construction or mineral extraction, the authors use extractive industry projects as a topical lens to investigate contemporary processes of state-making at the state-corporation nexus. Throughout the book, the authors seek to understand how public political actors and private actors of liberal capitalism negotiate and redefine notion…
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Weitere Autoren: Engel, Ulf (Hrsg.) / Macamo, Elísio (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-351-20061-5
- EAN: 9781351200615
- Produktnummer: 31314742
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 190 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'542 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 6 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 1 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Jon Schubert is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Anthropology Department at Brunel University London, UK, and the author of Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New AngolaUlf Engel is Professor of Politics in Africa at Leipzig University, Germany, Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, EthiopiaElísio Macamo is Professor of African Studies, Director of the Centre for African Studies and Head of the Social Sciences Department at the University of Basel, Switzerland
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