Africa & Politics, Exception or Agent
- Created by: Grace Pengelly
- Created on: 19-12-13 15:15
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- Africa & Politics: Exception or Agent?
- Ways of explaining African politics
- Structuralist Claim: Africa shaped by their position in the international system
- 'Othering' Edward Said Orientalism/Eurocentric theories - Africa never experienced the enlightenment
- Hegel
- Kaplan
- Fukuyama
- 'Othering' Edward Said Orientalism/Eurocentric theories - Africa never experienced the enlightenment
- Agency argument: Africans as active participant, not simply passive.
- Lonsdale: Agency in tight corners
- African Essentialism: Africa is all the same, shaped by a singular historical legacy
- Bayart: Politics of Belly
- Mamdani: Decentralised Despotism
- Iliffe/Herbst: Geography & Population Density
- Africa: shaped by the perceptions of others?
- Ferguson: West constructs an understanding of Africa it can understand itself through
- Africa rising: Africa contains some of the fastest growing economies in the world
- Structuralist Claim: Africa shaped by their position in the international system
- Why should we study African Politics?
- Diversity of languages and ecology
- Africa as home?
- Colonialism?
- Africa is difficult to interpret
- Is explaining Africa impossible?
- No. Our job as scholars is to find ways to talk about Africa that are honest and useful
- Africa can help us explore limits of Eurocentric ideas
- Alternative modernities
- Ways of explaining African politics
- Africa rising: Africa contains some of the fastest growing economies in the world
- Diversity of languages and ecology
- Africa as home?
- Colonialism?
- Is explaining Africa impossible?
- No. Our job as scholars is to find ways to talk about Africa that are honest and useful
- Africa can help us explore limits of Eurocentric ideas
- Alternative modernities
- Fukuyama
- Lonsdale: Agency in tight corners
- Ferguson: West constructs an understanding of Africa it can understand itself through
- Bayart: Politics of Belly
- Mamdani: Decentralised Despotism
- Hegel
- Kaplan
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