Lezing 'Surrounded: Democracy, Free Markets, and Other Entrapments of New Colonialism'

Voor wie
Alumni , Journalisten , Medewerkers , Privépersonen , Studenten
Wanneer
25-03-2025 van 11:00 tot 12:30
Waar
Room John Vincke, Technicum 1, UFO Campus, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000 Ghent
Voertaal
Engels
Door wie
Conflict Research Group - Department of Conflict and Development Studies - Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Contact
clod.yambao@ugent.be
Website
https://www.crg-ghent.be/https-mahiribooks-com-products-surrounded-democracy-free-markets-and-other-entrapments-of-new-colonialism-by-yusuf-serunkuma/

Conflict Research Group Book Launch and Talk by Yusuf Serunkuma

Surrounded is an ethnography of new colonialism. Putting together a series of articles written over a period of four years, this book touches on the informal, ignorable, subtle and seemingly benevolent ways through which new colonialism has encircled the continent – in technical, and powerfully depoliticized ways where even victims has been conscripted to the regime of own exploitation.

Unlike colonialism of the past, this new manifestation – beginning in the period after the collapse of the USSR – has been tactfully depoliticised, and informalized. International institutions such as the WB, IMF, WWF, USAID; private ones such as banks, mining giants, telecoms, and many others have surrounded the African continent. Riding on abstract, supposedly noble notions such as free markets and democracy, human rights and development, they have captured and distracted the African intelligentsia, thereby ruining entire populations.

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