Unfinished agendas: acting upon minority voices of the past decade

Kofman, Eléonore

doi:10.1016/0016-7185(94)90022-1

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“…Kofman (1994Kofman ( , 1996 argues that the goal of feminist work in the 1980s and early 1990s was to establish the legitimacy of feminist perspectives on geographical research in general, and not with respect to the sub-® eld of political geography. And Dalby (1994) notes that debates within feminism have made it dif® cult to see what would go into a feminist political geography, since basic terms and concepts were contested.…”

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Of Possibilities, Probabilities and Political Geography

Staeheli¹

2001

Space and Polity

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Of Possibilities, Probabilities and Political Geography

Staeheli¹

2001

Space and Polity

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“…Writing a few years after the establishment of the journal Political Geography, Peter Perry claimed that: "Anglo-American political geography poses and pursues a limited and impoverished version of the discipline, largely ignoring the political concerns of four fifths of humankind" 31 . Eleanore Kofman reiterated this in the mid-1990s, noting "the heavily Anglocentric, let alone Eurocentric, bias of political geography writing" 32 . In this, political geography is not alone; the same critique has periodically been levelled at 'Anglo-American' human geography more widely 33 .…”

Section: Ir Africa and The Virtue Of Hybrid Theoriesmentioning

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Towards a Critical Geopolitics of China’s Engagement with African Development

POWER,

MOHAN

2016

Readings in the International Relations of Africa

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China, in its quest for a closer strategic partnership with Africa, has increasingly dynamic economic, political and diplomatic activities on the continent. Chinese leaders and strategists believe that China's historical experience and vision of economic development resonates powerfully with African counterparts and that the long standing history of friendly political linkages and development co-operation offers a durable foundation for future partnership. In doing so, we see from the Chinese side and amongst some western commentators a form of exceptionalism and generalisation regarding both China and Africa. In this paper instead we seek to develop theoretical tools for examining China as a geopolitical and geoeconomic actor that is both different and similar to other industrial powers intervening in Africa. This is premised on a political economy approach that ties together material interests with a deconstruction of the discursive or 'extra-economic' ways by which Chinese capitalism internationalises. From there we use this framework to analyse contemporary Chinese engagement in Africa. We examine the changing historical position of Africa within Beijing's foreign policy strategy and China's vision of the evolving international political system, looking in particular at China's bilateral and state-centric approach to working with African 'partners'. Chinese practice is uncomfortable and unfamiliar with the notion of 'development' as an independent policy field of the kind that emerged among Western nations in the course of the 1950s and increasingly China has come to be viewed as a 'rogue creditor' and a threat to the international aid industry. Rather than highlighting one strand of Chinese relations with African states (such as aid or governance) we propose here that it is necessary to critically reflect on the wider geopolitics of China-Africa relations (past and present) in order to understand how China is opening up new 'choices' and altering the playing field for African development for the first time since the neo-liberal turn of the 1980s.

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Section: Ir Africa and The Virtue Of Hybrid Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%