Rethinking Securities in an Emergent Tec

Retracing the Contours for Africa's Hi-jacked Futures

Munyaradzi Mawere, Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere, Artwell Nhemachena

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9789956764112
• eBook ISBN: 9789956764839
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Global Development Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

The emergent technoscientific New World Order is being legitimised through discourses on openness and inclusivity. The paradox is that openness implies vulnerability and insecurities, particularly where closure would offer shelter. While some actors, including NGOs, preach openness of African societies, Africans clamour for protection, restitution and restoration. Africans struggle for ownership and access to housing, for national, cultural, religious, economic, and social belonging that would offer them the necessary security and protection, including protection from the global vicissitudes and matrices of power. In the presence of these struggles, to presuppose openness would be to celebrate vulnerability and insecurities. This book examines ways in which emergent technologies expose Africans and, more generally, peoples of the global south to political, economic, social, cultural and religious shocks occasioned by the coloniality of the global matrices of power. It notes that there is the use by global elites of technologies to incite postmodern revolutions designed to compound the vicissitudes and imponderables in the already unsettled lives of people north and south. Particularly targeted by these technologies are African and other governments that do not cooperate in the fulfilment of the interests of the hegemonic global elites. The book is handy to students and practitioners in security studies, African studies, development studies, global studies, policy studies, and political science.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• List of Contributors
• Contents
• Chapter 1 - The Development of (Neo-)Imperial Sacrifice, Global Atavism and African Insecurities: An Introduction
• Chapter 2 - “Ethnicity”, “Nomadic” Identities and (In-)Securities in Africa: The Case of the Tsonga Speaking People in South Africa
• Chapter 3 - Disabilities and Human Insecurities: Women and Oculocutaneous Albinism in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe
• Chapter 4 - A Religious Survey of Technological Oddity: Humanoid as a Case Study
• Chapter 5 - The Vacuity of the Responsibility to Protect in Africa? Insecurities and Social Protection in Zimbabwe
• Chapter 6 - Entangled in the “New World Order”: Africa’s (In-) Security Quandaries and Prospects
• Chapter 7 - Rethinking Security and Global Politics: The Tethering of Africa in an Era of Globalisation
• Chapter 8 - United Nations Agencies and Management of Humanitarian Crisis of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria’s Abuja Camps: Reflections on the Security of Igbo Migrants in the North (2010-2016)
• Chapter 9 - Religions and Insecurities: Heritage Contestations and Religious Praxis in Mberengwa and Masvingo, Zimbawe
• Chapter 10 - Electoral Politics and (In-) Securities in Africa: Thinking the past and the present for the future of Africa
• Chapter 11 - Espousing Global “Civilisation” in “Social Networking”: Linguistic Vulnerability and Techno-paranoia among Tshivenda/Xitsonga Speakers in Zimbabwe
• Chapter 12 - Zimbabwean Youths and the Insecurities from “Bronco” Abuse
• Chapter 13 - Democracy, Political Dynamics and (In-)security in the Global South: Hard Lessons for Africans
• Chapter 14 - The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Curbing Insecurity in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region
• Chapter 15 - Should the West Keep on Playing God? Genetic Engineering, Bio-technological Insecurities and their Implications for Africa
• Chapter 16 - Freedom to Become Insecure? Vulnerabilities from the Emergent Digital Media in Zimbabwe
• Back cover