(Routledge Studies in African Development) 1st Edition
by Jon Schubert (Editor), Ulf Engel (Editor), Elísio Macamo (Editor)
This book uses extractive industry
projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the
nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political
contestations and global, transnational capital. Instead of focusing on
technological zones and the new social assemblages at the actual sites
of construction or mineral extraction, the authors use extractive
industry projects as a topical lens to investigate contemporary
processes of state-making at the state–corporation nexus.
Throughout
the book, the authors seek to understand how public political actors
and private actors of liberal capitalism negotiate and redefine notions
and practices of sovereignty by setting legal, regulatory and fiscal
standards. Rather than looking at resource governance from a normative
perspective, the authors look at how these negotiations are shaped by
and reshape the self-conception of various national and transnational
actors, and how these jointly redefine the role of the state in managing
these processes for the ‘greater good’. Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa
will be useful for researchers, upper-level students and policy-makers
who are interested in new articulations of state-making and politics in
Africa.
