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Well researched and constructive, this volume is concerned with the
historical and contemporary discourse on African development and
the continent's place in the global economy. The chapters
critically explore the roles played by various global and local
social forces in the construction of the New Partnership for
Africa's Development (NEPAD) offering critical insights on
financing for development, the WTO and agriculture, ICTs and FDIs
and the war on terrorism. NEPAD has been endorsed by the African
Union, the Group of Eight and the United Nations System in order to
address Africa's deficit through the forging of a global
development partnership. This timely resource is suitable for
students and policymakers concerned with development in the African
postcolonies.
This meticulously researched, forcibly argued and accessibly
written collection explores the many and complex ways in which
Africa has been implicated in the discourses and politics of
September 11, 2001. Written by key scholars based in leading
institutions in Canada, the United States, the Middle East and
Africa, the volume interrogates the impact of post-9/11 politics on
Africa from many disciplinary perspectives, including political
science, sociology, history, anthropology, religious studies and
cultural studies. The essays analyze the impact of 9/11 and the
'war on terror' on political dissent and academic freedom; the
contentious vocabulary of crusades, clash of civilizations,
barbarism and 'Islamofascism'; alternative genealogies of local and
global terrorism; extraordinary renditions to black sites and
torture; human rights and insecurities; collapsed states and the
development-security merger; and anti-terrorism policies from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama. This is a much-needed meditation on
historical and contemporary discourses on terrorism.
This meticulously researched, forcibly argued and accessibly
written collection explores the many and complex ways in which
Africa has been implicated in the discourses and politics of
September 11, 2001. Written by key scholars based in leading
institutions in Canada, the United States, the Middle East and
Africa, the volume interrogates the impact of post-9/11 politics on
Africa from many disciplinary perspectives, including political
science, sociology, history, anthropology, religious studies and
cultural studies. The essays analyze the impact of 9/11 and the
'war on terror' on political dissent and academic freedom; the
contentious vocabulary of crusades, clash of civilizations,
barbarism and 'Islamofascism'; alternative genealogies of local and
global terrorism; extraordinary renditions to black sites and
torture; human rights and insecurities; collapsed states and the
development-security merger; and anti-terrorism policies from
George W. Bush to Barack Obama. This is a much-needed meditation on
historical and contemporary discourses on terrorism.
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy
where equity and diversity are vigorously promoted. In reality, the
university still excludes many people and is a site of
racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. This
book, the first comprehensive, data-based study of racialized and
Indigenous faculty members' experiences in Canadian universities,
challenges the myth of equity in higher education. Drawing on a
rich body of survey data, interviews, and analysis of universities'
stated policies, leading scholars scrutinize what universities have
done and question the effectiveness of their employment equity
programs. They also make important recommendations as to how
universities can address racialization and fulfill the promise of
equity in the academy.
The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make
visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer
fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means
to teach, learn, research, and work while Black. In daring to shift
from margin to centre, the book's contributors confront two
overlapping themes. First, they resist a singular construction of
Blackness that masks the nuances and multiplicity of what it means
to be and experience the academy as Black people. Second, they
challenge the stubborn durability of anti-Black tropes, the
dehumanization of Blackness, persistent deficit ideologies, and the
tyranny of low expectations that permeate the dominant idea of
Blackness in the white colonial imagination. Operating at the
intersections of discourse and experience, contributors reflect on
how Blackness shapes academic pathways, ignites complicated and
often difficult conversations, and reimagines Black pasts,
presents, and futures. This unique collection contributes to the
articulation of more nuanced understandings of the ways in which
Blackness is made, unmade, and remade in the academy and the
implications for interrelated dynamics across and within
post-secondary education, Black communities in Canada, and global
Black diasporas.
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