Stig Eduard Breitenstein Jensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6453422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stig Eduard Breitenstein Jensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stig Eduard Breitenstein |
| FAMILY NAME | Jensen |
| SIGNATURE | JENSEN S E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The imagined Africa of the West
This debate piece discusses how exceptionalised images of Africa are reproduced in contemporary Western discourse and imagination, and argues that these exceptionalised depictions of Africa enable Western consciousness to escape a confrontation with its own dysfunctionalities, hereby projecting all the excremental features characterising human existence on to its African Other. This is interpreted as a way for Western subjects to alter themselves…
Do We Understand the Linkages between Economic Growth, Poverty Targets and Poverty Reduction
This article contributes to the debate on poverty trends in Africa, looking at the argument for a correspondence between economic growth and poverty reduction. It questions whether a link between economic growth and poverty reduction can be established. First there is a look at the general picture in Africa and no convincing evidence of this link is found, before the article turns to two countries, Burkina Faso and Madagascar, which on the surfac…
Do We Understand the Linkages between Economic Growth, Poverty Targets and Poverty Reduction
This article contributes to the debate on poverty trends in Africa, looking at the argument for a correspondence between economic growth and poverty reduction. It questions whether a link between economic growth and poverty reduction can be established. First there is a look at the general picture in Africa and no convincing evidence of this link is found, before the article turns to two countries, Burkina Faso and Madagascar, which on the surfac…
The imagined Africa of the West
This debate piece discusses how exceptionalised images of Africa are reproduced in contemporary Western discourse and imagination, and argues that these exceptionalised depictions of Africa enable Western consciousness to escape a confrontation with its own dysfunctionalities, hereby projecting all the excremental features characterising human existence on to its African Other. This is interpreted as a way for Western subjects to alter themselves…
Do We Understand the Linkages between Economic Growth, Poverty Targets and Poverty Reduction
This article contributes to the debate on poverty trends in Africa, looking at the argument for a correspondence between economic growth and poverty reduction. It questions whether a link between economic growth and poverty reduction can be established. First there is a look at the general picture in Africa and no convincing evidence of this link is found, before the article turns to two countries, Burkina Faso and Madagascar, which on the surfac…
The imagined Africa of the West
This debate piece discusses how exceptionalised images of Africa are reproduced in contemporary Western discourse and imagination, and argues that these exceptionalised depictions of Africa enable Western consciousness to escape a confrontation with its own dysfunctionalities, hereby projecting all the excremental features characterising human existence on to its African Other. This is interpreted as a way for Western subjects to alter themselves…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Agricultural risk and resilience (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Basic needs (1 work) · Civilization (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)