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Modernization as Spectacle in Africa - Softcover

 
9780253012296: Modernization as Spectacle in Africa
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253012295 ISBN 13: 9780253012296
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2014

Synopsis

For postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. Since then, the rhetoric of modernization has pervaded policy, culture, and development, lending a kind of political theatricality to nationalist framings of modernization and Africans' perceptions of their place in the global economy. These 15 essays address governance, production, and social life; the role of media; and the discourse surrounding large-scale development projects, revealing modernization's deep effects on the expressive culture of Africa.

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About the Author

Peter J. Bloom is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor (with Ch. Didier Gondola and Charles Tshimanga) of Frenchness in the African Diaspora (IUP, 2009).

Takyiwaa Manuh is Emeritus Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon. She is editor (with Catherine M. Cole and Stephan F. Miescher) of Africa after Gender? (IUP, 2006).

Stephan F. Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Making Men in Ghana (IUP, 2005).

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253012295
ISBN 13 
9780253012296
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
328
Editor
Bloom Peter J., Miescher Stephan F., Manuh Takyiwaa