AD, Volume 39, n° 1, 2014 - Full Issue

Abstract

Contents / Sommaire
 
Introduction
Lansana Keita................................1
 
Understanding the Political Economy of Contemporary Africa
Samir Amin..................................15
 
Social Scientists’ Failure of Analytical Nerve: ‘Africa Rising’ From Above – Or Uprising From Below?
Patrick Bond...............................37
 
Creolizing Political Identity and Social Scientific Method
Jane Anna Gordon .......................65
 
Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge
Lewis R. Gordon............................81
 
On the Problematic State of Economic ‘Science’
Lansana Keita..............................93
 
Thinking Political Emancipation and the Social Sciences in Africa: Some Critical Reflections
Michael Neocosmos.....................125
 
The Concept of Innovation and the South African Nation
Sanya Osha.........................159