Neoliberalism and globalization in Africa : contestations from the embattled continent / edited by Joseph Mensah.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 M. Sable -- 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 M. Sable -- 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 and Roger Oppong-Koranteng.

"The outcomes of globalization are neither smooth nor unilinear; rather, they are dialectical, multifaceted, uneven, and sometimes chaotic, pointing in several different directions at once. Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa examines Africa's involvement in neoliberal globalization, and highlights the socioeconomic and cultural costs of the grossly unbalanced structure of global wealth and power between Africa and the rest of the world. The narratives in the book pay special attention to contestations - both discursively and in practice. And with the emphasis on contestation, readers will come to appreciate the tactics and maneuvers deployed by African social resistance movements to interrogate and confront contemporary neoliberal globalization."--BOOK JACKET.