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The fourth industrial revolution and the recolonisation of Africa : the coloniality of data / Everisto Benyera
(Routledge contemporary Africa)
| Material Type | E-Book |
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| Publisher | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 1 online resource |
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| Media type | 機械可読データファイル |
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| Contents | Data coloniality: A decolonial perspective of Africa and the 4IR Historicising Africa's subjugation Contextualising the colonial project in Africa Data mining, harvesting and datafication Networks, big data and data coloniality: Whither Africa's sovereignty? The 4IR as the mother of all destructions and accumulations Mapping Africa's destiny in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Africa's eunuch condition and the omnipresent footprints of the four industrial revolutions |
| Notes | "This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within the international community. In this book, the author argues that the looting of Africa that started with human capital and then natural resources, now continues unabated via data and digital resources looting. Developing on the notion of "Coloniality of Data", the fourth industrial revolution is postulated as the final phase which will conclude Africa's peregrination towards recolonisation. Global cartels, networks of coloniality, and tech multi-national corporations have turned Big Data into capital, which is left unguarded in Africa as the continent lacks the strong institutions necessary to regulate the mining of data. Written from a decolonial perspective, this book employs three analytical pillars of coloniality of power, knowledge and being. It concludes with an assessment of what could be done to help to turn the fourth industrial revolution from a curse into a resource. Highlighting the crippling continuation of asymmetrical global power relations, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, politics and international political economy"-- Provided by publisher Everisto Benyera is Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of South Africa Open Access Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Authors | *Benyera, Everisto, |
| Subjects | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books LCSH:International business enterprises -- Africa All Subject Search LCSH:Data mining -- Africa All Subject Search BISACSH:Political Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism BISACSH:Political Science / International Relations BISACSH:Political Science / World / African BISACSH:POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General FREE:Data mining FREE:International business enterprises FREE:International economic relations LCSH:Africa -- Europe. -- Foreign economic relations All Subject Search LCSH:Africa -- United States. -- Foreign economic relations All Subject Search LCSH:Europe -- Africa. -- Foreign economic relations All Subject Search LCSH:United States -- Africa. -- Foreign economic relations All Subject Search FREE:Africa FREE:Europe FREE:United States |
| Classification | DC23:337.604 |
| ID | ED00004040 |
| ISBN | 9781003157731 |