Respacing Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID9312902
AuthorsUlf Engel (0000-0002-5557-2757), Paul Nugent (0000-0003-4950-6347)
Year2010
Pages213
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRespacing Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004178335.i-215
OpenAlexW4213339298
Open LibraryOL24117062M
ISBN9789004178335
LanguageEN
Citations received22

Space has been reintroduced as an analytical category to the humanities and social sciences in the early 1990s. African Studies is one of the fields of knowledge production where the so-called spatial turn has proved to be extremely fruitful. The continent provides ample evidence for complex processes of deterritorialisation (migration, globalisation, sub-nationalisms) and reterritorialisation (new regionalisms, processes of bordering, etc.). These dialectical processes are driven by a variety of actors: political elites, multinational companies, warlords, donor governments, local traders, international NGOs, etc. As a result substantial parts of Africa witness the emergence of new regimes of territoriality: re-ordered states, transnational and sub-national entities, new localities and transborder formations. This volume brings together contributions from anthropology, history, geography and political science

Dialectic · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Geography · Globalization · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Territoriality · Variety (cybernetics · Witness · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Law · Africa · Geographical perception · Human Geography · Public spaces

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