Africa's Global Infrastructures (eBook)

The boom in SouthSouth relations since the early 2000s has seen a flurry of investment in African infrastructure from emerging markets across the Global South. While the extent to which these projects spur growth is constantly debated, few studies have addressed their impact on ground-level political and socio-economic practices in Africaor their consequences for transnational governance more broadly.Through the lens of infrastructure, this book investigates the developmental ideas, processes and techniques that have travelled to and emerged from Africa as a result of Global Southled projects. How have they been adapted, transformed and contested by local actors? How does this shape businesssociety relations? And how has this challenged the Western-dominated global order? The contributors zoom in on large-scale Chinese-, Brazilian- and Indian-funded venturesdams, ports, roads and minesacross countries including Kenya, Mozambique and the DRC. These frontier zones, bringing together politicians and practitioners, campaign groups and communities from Africa and elsewhere, offer a unique insight into the global workings of our contemporary world.Taking a bottom-up approach,Africas Global Infrastructuresexplores the longer-term significance and implications of these pluralistic socio-economic interactions, for the continent and beyond.