India's Development Diplomacy & Soft Power in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: King, Kenneth; Venkatachalam, Meera

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unpacks the histories, actors and geopolitics of India's soft power and evolving engagements with Africa.

Since independence India has deployed its soft power in Africa, with educational aid and capacity-building at the heart of its Africa policy. However, following economic liberalisation and in a quest for greater global influence, India's geopolitics have changed. The country's discourse on Africa has shifted from the mantras of post-colonial solidarity and South-South Cooperation, and there is now a growing sense of Indian exceptionalism, as the country reimagines its past and future against the growing influence of the political right. In this book scholars from India, Africa, Europe and North America show how India's soft power has been implemented by the diaspora, government and private sector. Research documents how India's 'aid' has been re-thought in major schemes such as e-global education and health, Gandhi statuary and Covid-19 diplomacy in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800102842
• Artikelnr.: 63918800

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: India-Africa Now: Changing Imaginaries and Knowledge
Paradigms Meera Venkatachalam and Kenneth King PART 1: The Geopolitical
Imaginary and Soft Power 1. India's Soft Power in East Africa:
Opportunities and Challenges Muhidin J. Shangwe 2. Between Business and
Balance: India-Japan in Africa vis-à-vis China Mrittika Guha Sarkar and
Jagannath Panda PART 2: The Indian Political Right and the Reconfiguration
of Soft Power in Africa 3. The Indian Political Right, Soft Power, and the
Reimagination of Africa Meera Venkatachalam 4. Modi and the Mahatma - The
Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation of India-Africa relations
Simona Vittorini PART 3: Capacity building: Shifting Modalities and New
Knowledgescapes 5. India's Changing Human Resource Diplomacy with Africa,
and Africa's Responses Kenneth King 6. A Shining Example: Modelling Growth
in India's Pan-African e-Network Vincent Duclos 7. Partnership in Times of
Pandemic: India's Covid Diplomacy with a Lens on Africa Supriya
Roychoudhury and Emma Mawdsley PART 4: Skilling, Knowledge Transfer, and
Indo-African Interactions 8. Precarious Partnerships: Tanzanian
Entrepreneurs of Asian and African Descent Jacqueline Halima Mgumia and
Chambi Chachage 9. The Trumpets and Travails of South-South Cooperation:
African Students in India since the 1940s Gerard McCann Conclusion:
Reflections on India-Africa Studies, Development Cooperation, and Soft
Power Kenneth King and Meera Venkatachalam