Breaking the Colonial "Contract"
From Oppression to Autonomous Decolonial Futures
Published on 20. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
298 pages
978-1-7936-2275-4 (ISBN)
Description
The book exposes various mechanisms and methods by which covert colonial mechanisms are employed to perpetuate colonialism, especially in Africa. Less overt and more covert perpetuation of colonialism is done through the use of networks. The main achievement of the initial phase of colonialism was the establishment of networks that are nefarious and omnipresent; constituting "distributed presence," which allows for "action at a distance." As a result, colonial subjects became willing participants in these processes, unbeknownst to them, which perpetuated their own colonialism. The book exposes forms of colonialism where manufactured consent is used to perpetuate colonialism. Trapped in this capitalist, Western, Christian language and moral world order without sovereignty, African countries continuously sink deeper into the colonial quagmire.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 b/w illustrations;1 tables;
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
487 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-2275-4 (9781793622754)
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E-Book
05/2020
1st Edition
Lexington Books
€38.99
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Persons
Everisto Benyera is associate professor of African politics in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa.
Content
Contents
Chapter 1: How and why is colonialism a contract?, Everisto Benyera
Chapter 2 The Black and the Colonial Contract, Tendayi Sithole
Chapter 3: Unravelling the Paradigm of War Embedded in the Colonial Contract of Palestine: Contemporary Zionist Colonialism as an Extension of Global Islamophobia, Ahmed Haroon Jazbhay
Chapter 4: Contract farming as covert perpetuation of colonial capitalist hegemony? The Zimbabwe context, Tom Tom & Knobby Tomy
Chapter 5: Post- Independent African Leadership and the Paradox of Global Political Economy: The Zimbabwean Experience Under Mugabe, Washington Mazorodze
Chapter 6: The Zimbabwe Post-2000 'Illegal' Sanctions: The Cost of Rejecting the Colonial 'Contract'?, Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba
Chapter 7: Reclaiming Africa's Space and Development through Indigenous Knowledge Systems?: A Focus on Zimbabwe, Tom Tom
Chapter 8: 'State-Capture' of Indigenous Knowledge: Lived Experiences of Forest-Dependent Nigeria with Coloniality, Godwin Etta Odok
Chapter 9: Claims and Count
Chapter 1: How and why is colonialism a contract?, Everisto Benyera
Chapter 2 The Black and the Colonial Contract, Tendayi Sithole
Chapter 3: Unravelling the Paradigm of War Embedded in the Colonial Contract of Palestine: Contemporary Zionist Colonialism as an Extension of Global Islamophobia, Ahmed Haroon Jazbhay
Chapter 4: Contract farming as covert perpetuation of colonial capitalist hegemony? The Zimbabwe context, Tom Tom & Knobby Tomy
Chapter 5: Post- Independent African Leadership and the Paradox of Global Political Economy: The Zimbabwean Experience Under Mugabe, Washington Mazorodze
Chapter 6: The Zimbabwe Post-2000 'Illegal' Sanctions: The Cost of Rejecting the Colonial 'Contract'?, Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba
Chapter 7: Reclaiming Africa's Space and Development through Indigenous Knowledge Systems?: A Focus on Zimbabwe, Tom Tom
Chapter 8: 'State-Capture' of Indigenous Knowledge: Lived Experiences of Forest-Dependent Nigeria with Coloniality, Godwin Etta Odok
Chapter 9: Claims and Count