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Assault on paradise : perspectives on globalization and class struggles
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ISBN: 9956727350 1336223006 9956728233 9956728470 9956728357 9789956728473 9789956728237 9789956727353 9956728632 9789956727353 Year: 2012 Publisher: Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG,


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Unmasking social science imperialism : globalization theory as a phase of academic colonialism
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ISBN: 9956792217 9789956792214 9956792209 9789956792207 1336008423 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG,

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Contemporary social science is a product of the capitalist world-system and Eurocentrism is constitutive of the geoculture of this system characterized by the parochiality of its universalism, assumptions about the superiority of Western civilization and imposition as the sole theory of global progress. The creation of these structures of knowledge, specifically the institutionalization of the social sciences, is a phenomenon that is inextricably linked to the very formation and maturation of Europe's capitalist world system or imperialism. There is therefore nothing that is natural, logical, or accidental about the institutionalization of the social sciences. These Europeanized structures of knowledge are imposed ways of producing knowledge of the world. This Eurocentrism of social science has justifiably come under increasingly vigorous scrutiny, especially in the period since 1945 with the formal decolonization of Africa, Asia, and much of the Caribbean. This book forcefully argues that if social science is to make any progress in the twenty-first century, it must overcome its Eurocentric heritage that has distorted social analyses and its capacity to deal with the problems of the contemporary world and embrace other non-Western funds of knowledge production.


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Africa : facing human security challenges in the 21st century
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ISBN: 9789956792368 9956792365 9956791113 9789956791118 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG,

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Africaís dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversityófrom conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others. This precarious environment jeopardizes security at the societal, community and individual levels. In a globalized and interconnected world, millions of people worldwide are affected by some form of human insecurity. Infectious and parasitic diseases annually kill millions.

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