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Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Runaway globalization and the cultural imagination of dependency
Author:Okwori, Jenkeri ZakariISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:Tydskrif vir letterkunde
Volume:44
Issue:2
Pages:149-162
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:globalization
dependence
political ideologies
External link:https://doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v44i2.29797
Abstract:This article examines the relationship of complicity between economic globalization and the spread of ideologies about African character, capabilities and potential that are not only 'racialized', but also try to locate Africa's performance in the global phenomenon within a geographic and climatic articulation. The author argues that by linking progress to climate and using environment to establish a hierarchy of regions, neo-imperialist scholars reinscribe the superiority of Europe and North America in the global equation. African response to globalization paradoxically takes varied forms which incorporate ideologies from the North. Globalization and globalism by their nature and design work hand in hand to ensure a hegemonic consciousness among Africans such that even their response to globalization is imagined and mediated from the pedestal of dependence. The way out for Africans is to respond to globalization via the prism of 'globalization from below', or 'grassroots globalization', that is, to determine their terms for partaking in the global in the context of their own existence. Bibliogr., note, sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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