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| Title: | Globalisation from Below: Conceptualising the Role of the African Diaspora in Africa's Development |
| Authors: | Mohan, Giles Zack-Williams, A.B. |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Issue: | 92 |
| Period: | July |
| Pages: | 211-236 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Africa |
| Subjects: | development diasporas global economy Development and Technology Urbanization and Migration |
| External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240208704610 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4F948642918490F89FC4 |
| Abstract: | This paper puts forward a framework for examining the role of diasporas in development. This centres on recognizing that the formation of the African diaspora has been intimately linked to the evolution of a globalized and racialized capitalism. First, the paper argues that the fact that both African studies and development studies have ignored questions of the African diaspora relates to the ways in which 'Africa' is apprehended in Western intellectual traditions. Next, it looks at concepts of diaspora and the way in which they are defined and delimited. This is followed by an examination of the elision between diasporas and networks in which the latter may lack a shared identity, but be useful for development purposes. The major section examines the implications of a diasporic perspective for understanding the development potential of both Africans in diaspora and those remaining on the continent. It argues that both politically and economically the diaspora has an important part to play in contemporary social processes operating at an increasingly global scale. The key issues addressed are the embeddedness of social networks and institutions in the diaspora, remittances and return, development organizations, religious networks, cultural dynamics and political activity. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
