The New Scramble for Africa / Edition 2

by Padraig Carmody

Overview

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials. The second edition of Carmody's popular book explores the dynamics of the new scramble for African resources, markets, and territory and the impact on people, the environment, and political and economic development on the continent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509507078
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/12/2016
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	326
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Pádraig Carmody is an Associate Professor in Geography at Trinity College Dublin and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy at the University of Johannesburg

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1 The New Scramble, Geography and Development
• 2 Old Economic Power Interests and Strategies in Africa
• 3 Chinese Interests and Strategies in Africa [with Ian Taylor]
• 4 Other New Economic Power Interests and Relations with Africa
• 5 Driving the Global Economy: West African and Sahelian Oil
• 6 The Scramble for Land: The Ugandan Case [with David Taylor]
• 7 Powering and Connecting the Global Economy through Conflict: Uranium and Coltan
• 8 Furnishing and Feeding the World? Timber, Biofuels, Plants, Food and Fisheries
• 9 The Asian Scramble for Investment and Markets: Evidence and Impacts in Zambia [with Godfrey
• Hampwaye]
• 10 Can Africans Unscramble the Continent?
• Conclusion: The New Scramble in Perspective

Editorial Reviews

"This new scramble for Africa provides an excellent overview of the current development and exploitation of Africas resources showing how African development is defined by the paradox of plenty. This collection is a must for scholars interested in understanding processes of resource grabbing in Africa from colonial times until now, illustrating the variety of forms it has taken and unrevelaing the various root causes."
Annelies Zoomers, Utrecht University

"Follow the money is a key message of Carmodys supercharged analysis of the new competitive scramble for Africas petroleum and minerals, for its timber, even for its food crops. Few have so well exposed the mechanisms and consequences of this avarice, and particularly of Chinas all-encompassing shaping of Africas dynamic future. Carmody is a very reliable guide and his second edition is even more definitive than the first."
Robert I. Rotberg, Harvard University

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