Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Global Shadows: Africa and the World 1
5. 1 Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent 25
6. 2 Paradoxes of Sovereignty and Independence: ‘‘Real’’ and ‘‘Pseudo-’’ Nation-States and the Depoliticization of Poverty 50
7. 3 De-moralizing Economies: African Socialism, Scientific Capitalism, and the Moral Politics of Structural Adjustment 69
8. 4 Transnational Topographies of Power: Beyond ‘‘the State’’ and ‘‘Civil Society’’ in the Study of African Politics 89
9. 5 Chrysalis: The Life and Death of the African Renaissance in a Zambian Internet Magazine 113
10. 6 Of Mimicry and Membership: Africans and the ‘‘New World Society’’ 155
11. 7 Decomposing Modernity: History and Hierarchy after Development 176
12. 8 Governing Extraction: New Spatializations of Order and Disorder in Neoliberal Africa 194
13. Notes 211
14. References 229
15. Index 249