J. Mensah

Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa: Contestations from the Embattled Continent J. Mensah

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa / Joseph Mensah -- I. Polemics from the Embattled Continent -- 1. Accumulation by Dispossession in Africa: False Diagnoses and Dangerous Prescriptions / Patrick Bond -- 2. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization in Africa: A Dialectical Interpenetration of the Local and the Global / Joseph Mensah -- 3. The Anticapitalism Movement and African Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization / Edward Osei Kwadwo Prempeh -- 4. Gender, States, and Markets in Africa / Eunice N. Sahle -- 5. Globalization, Indigenization, and Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa / Francis Adu-Febiri -- 6. Africa and the Political Economy of Time-space Compression and Space of Flows: Unfashionable Observations / Joseph Mensah -- 7. African States' NEPAD Project: A Global Elite Neoliberal Settlement / Eunice N. Sahle -- II. Country Case Studies -- 8. Globalization, Cybersexuality among Ghanaian Youth, and Moral Panic / Wisdom J. Tettey -- 9. Mercantilism and the Struggle for Late Industrialization in an Age of Globalization: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwan and Uganda / Julius Kiiza -- 10. Zimbabwean Land Redistribution!: Globalization and Neoliberal Narratives and Transnational Connections / Blair Rutherford -- 11. The South African People's Budget Campaign as a Challenge to Neoliberal Policy Framework and Methodology / Carolyn Bassett -- 12. Globalization and Internet Fraud in Ghana: Interrogating the Political Economy of Survival, Subaltern Agency, and Their Ramifications / Wisdom J. Tettey -- Conclusion: Neoliberal Globalization and Africa: Recurrent Themes and a Way Forward / Joseph Mensah, Roger Oppong-Koranteng -- Contributors -- About the Editor -- Index. Publisher Marketing: This text looks at Africa's involvement in contemporary neoliberal globalization, paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, and cultural cost of the unbalanced structure of global wealth and power between Africa and the rest of the world

Contributor Bio:  Mensah, Joseph "Joseph Mensah" is a teacher at the school of social science in the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies at York University. He is a vice president of the Canadian chapter of the International Institute for Human Factor Development and a member of the research advisory board of the Ontario Association of Youth Employment Centers (OAYEC).