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This book presents a new theory explaining underdevelopment in the
global South and tests whether financial inputs, the
government-business-media (GBM) complex and spatiotemporal
influences drive human development. Despite the entrance of
emerging powers and new forms of aid, trade and investment,
international political-economic practices still support
well-established systems of capital accumulation, to the detriment
of the global South. Global asymmetrical accumulation is maintained
by 'affective' (consent-forming hegemonic practices) and
'infrastructural' (uneven economic exchanges) labours and by power
networks. The message for developing countries is that 'robust'
GBMs can facilitate human development and development is
constrained by spatiotemporal limitations. This work theorizes that
aid and foreign direct investment should be viewed with caution and
that in the global South these investments should not automatically
be assumed to be drivers of development.
Though initially considered a welcome counterweight to Western
interest across Africa, the BRICS are increasingly being viewed as
another example of foreign interference and exploitation. BRICS and
Resistance in Africa explores the varied forms of African
resistance being developed in response to the growing influence of
the BRICS. Its case studies cover such instances as the opposition
to China's One Belt One Road initiative in East Africa; resistance
to the BRICS' oil activities in the Niger Delta; and the role of
the BRICS in Zimbabwe's political transition. The contributors
expose the contradictions between the group's rhetoric and its real
impact, as well as the complicity of local elites in serving as
proxies for the BRICS nations. By challenging and expanding the
debates surrounding BRICS involvement in Africa, this collection
offers new insight into resistance to globalization in the global
South.
Though initially considered a welcome counterweight to Western
interest across Africa, the BRICS are increasingly being viewed as
another example of foreign interference and exploitation. BRICS and
Resistance in Africa explores the varied forms of African
resistance being developed in response to the growing influence of
the BRICS. Its case studies cover such instances as the opposition
to China's One Belt One Road initiative in East Africa; resistance
to the BRICS' oil activities in the Niger Delta; and the role of
the BRICS in Zimbabwe's political transition. The contributors
expose the contradictions between the group's rhetoric and its real
impact, as well as the complicity of local elites in serving as
proxies for the BRICS nations. By challenging and expanding the
debates surrounding BRICS involvement in Africa, this collection
offers new insight into resistance to globalization in the global
South.
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