Pádraig Carmody - The New Scramble for Africa

Copyright Pdraig Carmody 2016

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First edition published in 2011 by Polity Press

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-0707-8

ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-0708-5 (pb)

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Names: Carmody, Pdraig Risteard, author.

Title: The new scramble for Africa / Pdraig Carmody.

Description: Second edition. | Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016007311| ISBN 9781509507078 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781509507085 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: AfricaForeign economic relations. | AfricaEconomic conditions21st century. | Investments, ForeignAfrica. | Economic developmentAfrica.

Classification: LCC HC800 .C2654 2016 | DDC 330.96dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/201600731

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Several people have helped in writing this book. First and foremost, I would like to express my gratitude to Ian Taylor, David Taylor and Godfrey Hampwaye for allowing me to draw substantially for this book on three articles I co-authored with them (P. Carmody and I. Taylor (2010), Flexigemony and force in China's resource diplomacy in Africa, Geopolitics, 15, 3, 120; P. Carmody and D. Taylor (2016), Globalization, land grabbing and the present-day colonial state in Uganda: ecolonization and its impacts, Journal of Environment and Development, 25, 1, 10026; and P. Carmody and G. Hampwaye (2010), Inclusive or exclusive globalization: the impacts of Asian-owned businesses in Zambia, Africa Today, 56, 3, 84102. Thanks are due to Francis Owusu, Latha Varadarajan, Howard Stein, Eric Sheppard and Peter Kragelund for comments on sections or the book as a whole, and to the referees for Polity Press for their incisive comments on the proposal, manuscript and book, which have substantially improved the end result. Thanks go also to David Nally, Rosaleen Duffy, Bram Bscher, Adrian Nel, Susan Murphy, Jonathan Rigg, Ben Niemark, Solomon Olum, Raymond Clmenon and the referees of the Journal of Environment and Development; the participants at the Political Ecology and Development: Resources, Power and Justice workshop at the University of Lancaster, 2014, for their comments on , which appears in their edited book India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power (Oxford: Fahamu Books, 2010), and for their permission to reproduce material from that chapter here. I would also like to thank Louise Knight who suggested this project and Nekane Tanaka Galdos, David Winters and Leigh Mueller at Polity for helping to bring it to fruition. Thanks also go to Sheila McMorrow for producing the initial version of the resource map. The support of the University of Johannesburg, National Geographic Waitt Grant Program and the United States National Science Foundation (award number 925151 with Jim Murphy) for undertaking fieldwork in Zambia and South Africa is gratefully acknowledged. Fieldwork in Uganda was funded by Trinity College Dublin, the support of which is also gratefully acknowledged. The opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not reflect those of the funding agencies.