Perspectives on the State Borders in Globalized Africa

Herausgeber: Sasaoka, Yuichi; Uesu, Sayoko; Tayo, Aimé Raoul Sumo

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Produktbeschreibung

Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state-building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states' borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, those porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people's mobility, contact, and trade. A must read for scholars of African studies that will also be of great value to academics and students with a broader interest in nationhood, globalization, and borders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781032064345
• ISBN-10: 103206434X
• Artikelnr.: 68713497

Autorenporträt

Yuichi Sasaoka is a professor in the Graduate School of Governance Studies at Meiji University, Japan. Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo is a senior researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies and Innovations, Yaoundé, Cameroon. Sayoko Uesu is a research associate at National Graduate Institute for Policy Research (GRIPS), Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. New Perspectives on the African State Borders 2. From
Contested Borders to Cross-border Cooperation in the Lake Chad Basin:
Stakes and Challenges 3. A Porous Border and Economic Activity in the
Kampala Kinshasa Market, West Nile, Northwestern Uganda 4. Cross-Border
Refugee Crisis and Local Governments in the West Nile Region, Uganda 5.
Mobility as a Culture in rural Africa 6. Micro-Regionalism in Southern
Africa 7. Transnational Violent Actors in the Borderlands of the Sahel and
Challenges for Stabilization: Any role for Japan? 8. Insecurity in the Horn
of Africa and IGAD 9. The Hardening of African Borders in the Era of
Growing Security Threats and the Global War on Terror 10. Porous Boundaries
and Anisotropic Mobility: Migration and Cross-Border Trade between Nigeria
and Japan 11. Decentralization and Conflict Prevention in East Africa
Conclusion