Cultural Dimensions of Globalization in Africa

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ID20082385
AutoresJoseph Mensah (0000-0002-2501-528X, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Páginas33-54
Data de publicação2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoNeoliberalism and Globalization in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9780230617216_3
OpenAlexW2495387471
ISBN9780230617216
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas54

Since the 1980s, there has been a proliferation of academic discourse on globalization emanating from virtually all visages of the social sciences and humanities, with disciplines such as sociology, economics, political science, geography, and cultural studies taking the lead in this intellectual project (Held et al. 1999; Waters 1995). Perhaps the most astonishing feature of the sprawling literature is neither the enormous size, nor the diversity of disciplinary perspectives from which analysts have approached the subject, but rather the perfunctory attention given to Africa to date. As the South African economic historian David Moore (2001, 909) laments: "Globalization literature ... is devoted largely to the advanced capitalist portion of the global economy where all the indices of production integration, shrinking distance, and the advance of the informationalisation mode of production' are on the increase. Where attention is devoted to the 'Third World,' it concentrates on the rise and fall ... of the newly industrialised countries of Asia. Africa seems off the map" (emphasis added). The few studies on Africa have come from three main points of departure. First, there are those who are convinced that Africa has little, if anything, to contribute to globalization because the continent, in their view, is made up of nothing more than dysfunctional, "non-viable economies" (de Rivero, 2001) infused with insurmountable corruption and ethnotribal conflicts.KeywordsPolitical EconomyAfrican CultureGlobal CultureCultural GeographyAfrican PhilosophyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Cultural globalization · Development economics · Discipline · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Language change · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents) · African history and culture studies · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · World Systems and Global Transformations