Modernization as spectacle in Africa
(2014)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : No Publisher : Made available through hoopla, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780253012333 (electronic bk.) MWT11531488, 0253012333 (electronic bk.) 11531488
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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