Africa's Shadow Rise and the Mirage of Economic Development
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77336-6_8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77336-6_8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77336-6_8" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-77336-6_8</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Africa's Shadow Rise and the Mirage of Economic Development
Original language description
Economic growth rates above much of the rest of the world for a decade and a half led some analysts and commentators to develop or adopt an "Africa Rising" discourse. This discourse presents Africa as an emerging global economic and political power. While the Africa Rising discourse is problematic, we argue that it does reflect the emergence of a number of world powers from the Global South, particularly China-a kind of "shadow rise", which may nonetheless have led to the concomitant increase in the economic and political power of local elites and domestic "middle classes" across a number of African countries. This paper seeks to break open the black box of the power relations and economic impacts of China in Southern Africa and relate it to the concept of "Africa Rising". In particular, it explores the extent to which China has empowered different local actors and whether or not they have contributed to the diversification of local economies.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations
ISBN
978-3-030-77336-6
Number of pages of the result
13
Pages from-to
111-123
Number of pages of the book
305
Publisher name
Springer International Publishing
Place of publication
Zurich
UT code for WoS chapter
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