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Power, Powerlessness, and Globalization: Contemporary Politics in the Global South
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Lexington Books
Publication date
August 20, 2014
Pages
179
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780739195215
ISBN-10
0739195212
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.94 lbs.
Original list price
$80.00
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book is about imperialism-driven globalization, its historic impact on Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and, over time, the varied responses of the national political units and regional entities in these continents to the challenges of building countervailing power and laying foundations for independent development. Where genuine recovery and empowerment have emerged, this has been the result not only of the pursuit of âdignitalistâ political and economic values that emphasize robust and sustained productivity geared toward uplifting the living standards and dignity of all the members of the national society, but also of the creation of indigenous institutions whose relations with the external world are defined by equality rather than dependence and subordination.
Opoku Agyeman argues that âdignificationâ is the fundamentally necessary response to imperialismâs inevitable afflictions of national/racial humiliation. It is the most crucial ingredient in the complex of motivations that propel formerly weak nation-states and regional communities to rise up and defend the honor of their people. As Mao Zedong told the world in 1949: âOurs will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up.â
This study argues emphatically that it is a countryâs or regionâs developed or developing capabilities, not its historic and continuing victimization or habitual dependence on âcharitable aidâ and other âaltruisticâ interventions from the âinternational community,â that determines its success in escaping the scourge of powerlessness and underdevelopment. It further maintains that a people who have been brought low through brutal, dehumanizing imperialism cannot bypass the need for redemptive empowerment if they wish to regain honor and a proper place in the world. Finally, it takes issue with Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, and others like them whose moralistic critiques of the rapacity of imperialistic globalization carry the unfortunate implication that it is possible for a fair and just world social order to come out of incremental reforms of philanthropically-motivated developed, powerful countries, in the structure and operations of global capitalism.
Opoku Agyeman argues that âdignificationâ is the fundamentally necessary response to imperialismâs inevitable afflictions of national/racial humiliation. It is the most crucial ingredient in the complex of motivations that propel formerly weak nation-states and regional communities to rise up and defend the honor of their people. As Mao Zedong told the world in 1949: âOurs will no longer be a nation subject to insult and humiliation. We have stood up.â
This study argues emphatically that it is a countryâs or regionâs developed or developing capabilities, not its historic and continuing victimization or habitual dependence on âcharitable aidâ and other âaltruisticâ interventions from the âinternational community,â that determines its success in escaping the scourge of powerlessness and underdevelopment. It further maintains that a people who have been brought low through brutal, dehumanizing imperialism cannot bypass the need for redemptive empowerment if they wish to regain honor and a proper place in the world. Finally, it takes issue with Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, and others like them whose moralistic critiques of the rapacity of imperialistic globalization carry the unfortunate implication that it is possible for a fair and just world social order to come out of incremental reforms of philanthropically-motivated developed, powerful countries, in the structure and operations of global capitalism.
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9780739195215 | details & prices | 179 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.94 lbs | List price $80.00
About: This book is about imperialism-driven globalization, its historic impact on Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and, over time, the varied responses of the national political units and regional entities in these continents to the challenges of building countervailing power and laying foundations for independent development.
About: This book is about imperialism-driven globalization, its historic impact on Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and, over time, the varied responses of the national political units and regional entities in these continents to the challenges of building countervailing power and laying foundations for independent development.
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