New Directions in Africa--China Studies, Chris Alden

Автор: Alden Chris
Название: New Directions in Africa-China Studies
ISBN: 1138714674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138714670
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Interest in China and Africa is growing exponentially. Taking a step back from the
'events-driven' reactions characterizing much coverage, this timely book reflects more deeply on questions concerning how this subject has been, is being and can be
studied.

Автор: Chris Alden
Название: New Directions in Africa--China Studies
ISBN: 0415439094 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415439091
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Описание: Despite the accumulation of studies drawing from other fields, China-Africa studies still bears the hallmarks of its origins and popularization in IR – in Western and Chinese scholarship, and in this continues to shape subsequent work on it. New Directions in Africa--China Studies takes a step back from the ‘events-driven’ reactions and analysis characterizing much analysis in order to reflect more deeply on questions concerning how this has been, is and can be studied. This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative analytical review of the burgeoning area of China-Africa studies. The contributors draw on various disciplinary perspectives, posing not just methodological and theoretical questions about China-Africa and arguments for repositioning this as Africa-China but also raising wider issues, such as higher education in Africa or the global impact of China on social science. Showcasing a range of perspectives by an authoritative array of leading and emerging scholars, New Directions in Africa--China Studies is an essential read for scholars of the Africa—China relationshisp. It is also an authoritative resource for courses on African international relations, Chinese international relations, the South in Global Politics, or South-South development.

Автор: Davis Diana K., Burke Edmund III
Название: Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East & North Africa
ISBN: 0821420402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821420409
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to critically examine culturally constructed views of the environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the peoples of the region. The contributors expose many of the questionable policies and practices born of these environmental imaginaries and related histories that have been utilized in the region since the colonial period. They further reveal how power, in the form of development programs, notions of nationalism, and hydrological maps, for instance, relates to environmental knowledge production.

Contributors: Samer Alatout, Edmund Burke III, Shaul Cohen, Diana K. Davis, Jennifer L. Derr, Leila M. Harris, Alan Mikhail, Timothy Mitchell, Priya Satia, Jeannie Sowers, and George R. Trumbull IV