TY  - CHAP
A1  - Loimeier, Roman
A1  - Neubert, Dieter
A1  - Weißköppel, Cordula
T1  - Globalization in a Local Context - Perspectives and Concepts of Action in Africa :  An Introduction
N2  - Typical shortages of the public debate on globalization are reflected in the academic discussion such as the distorting simplicity of catchwords like the "global village", "jihad vs. McWorld", the "new global age" or the assumption that globalization is a completely new phenomenon. However, the academic debate itself is still restricted. There are only few attempts to cover and analyze processes of globalization on a broader basis in all parts of the world: not only the "North", but also the "South". Despite the multi-centric character of the world, the analysis of processes of globalization has remained largely confined to the North, while events in Africa, for instance, are taken notice of only when they are of specific relevance to the North. This paper, which originally is the introduction to an edited book (published in German), tries to analyze these shortages and to present approaches which look at the processes of globalization from different and perhaps more "African" perspectives. However, this overview shows that it is still debated, whether established concepts of the globalization paradigm can be confirmed from an African perspective or whether they have to be revised or even rejected.
T3  - Bayreuth African Studies Online - 2 
KW  - Globalisierung
KW  - Afrikaforschung
KW  - Afrika-Studien
KW  - Entwicklungstheorie
KW  - Lokales Wissen
KW  - Lokal
KW  - Lokales Handeln
KW  - Synkretisierung
KW  - Kulturanthropolgie
KW  - Islam in Afrika
KW  - Globalization
KW  - African Studies
KW  - Local Agency
KW  - global village
KW  - locality
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-opus-1717
UR  - http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-ubbayreuth/frontdoor/index/index/docId/155
ER  -