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Imagining Africa - Whiteness and the Western Gaze (Hardcover)
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Imagining Africa - Whiteness and the Western Gaze (Hardcover)
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There has been a long history of idealism concerning the potential
of economic and political developments in Africa, the latest
iteration of which emerged around the time of the 2007-8 global
financial crisis. Here, Clive Gabay takes a historical approach to
questions concerning change and international order as these apply
to Africa in Western imaginaries. Challenging traditional
postcolonial accounts that see the West imagine itself as superior
to Africa, he argues that the centrality of racial anxieties
concerning white supremacy make Africa appear, at moments of
Western crisis, as the saviour of Western ideals, specifically
democracy, bureaucracy, and neoclassical economic order.
Uncommonly, this book turns its lens as much inwards as outwards,
interrogating how changing attitudes to Africa over the course of
the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries correspond to
shifting anxieties concerning whiteness, and the growing hope that
Africa will be the place where the historical genius of whiteness
might be saved and perpetuated.
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