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The Transsion Approach
How do we explain China’s tech rise in Africa? As Africa’s top phone seller, the Shenzhen-based company Transsion has profoundly shaped the continent’s digital transformation by providing affordable yet feature-rich mobile phones for the economically disadvantaged. Miao Lu draws on rich fieldwork in China and Ghana to delve into the company’s operations and growing influence. Critiquing technology transfer, Lu focuses on design, marketing, and repair to illustrate the multi-layered technology translations between China and Ghana. Borrowing the metaphor of deep ploughing, Lu examines the rural-centric and lower-class–oriented approach of translating mobile technology. Transsion challenges the cultural imagination of big tech. But the company is also evolving into a regional power that’s adept at marginalizing small players and increasing local dependence. Lu’s analysis explores the complexity that Shenzhen can act as Silicon Valley’s “South” and Africa’s “North” simultaneously. The middle space created by Transsion bridges globalization from above and below, which opens the door to new possibilities and inequalities.
The End of Empires and a World Remade
A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalization Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became internationalized and transnational, as much global campaigns of moral disarmament against colonial injustice as local contests of arms. In this expansive history, Martin Thomas tells the story of decolonization and its intrinsic link to globalization. He traces the connections between these two transformative pr...
Implementing Sustainable Development Goals in Europe
This unique book expertly analyses European political entrepreneurship in relation to the European Union’s approach towards the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development strategy. It explores the role of European political entrepreneurs in shaping, influencing and realising the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Chapters examine EU actors in the context of numerous development goals to assess how political entrepreneurship challenges traditional EU institutions and promotes visionary activity.
India in World Affairs
It is very evident that much of the scholarly work currently done in the field of defence, human resources, strategic and development studies converges on issues which impact international relations both in policy formulation and its implementation through bilateral or multilateral arrangements. Issues such as Energy, Environment, Disaster Management, Technology, Food, Agriculture, Poverty, Health, Refugees, Migration, Trade, Political Formations among others, are now increasingly influencing global decision-making. The Osmania Universiy Centre for International Programmes-OUCIP had organized an international conference to reflect on these issues. The present volume is an edited collection o...
Anatomy of a Secret
Raw and compelling, Anatomy of a Secret bravely shares long silenced, unspoken truths. As a boy, Gerard was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at his local church. As a grown man, he confronts the trauma of what he suffered and the psychological aftermath of his experience, grappling with shame, guilt and the devastating impact it had on his family, relationships and sense of self. Despite what he endured, Gerard' s story is one of hope and healing, of acknowledging pain and seeking support, of honesty and justice.
India and Africa - Old Friends, New Game
Africa has long been linked with India - from ancient trading networks across the Indian Ocean, the historic presence of South Asian communities in eastern Africa, to the 'third worldist' solidarity of Jawaharlal Nehru. Beyond the laudatory tales of Gandhi's South African days, however, it is obvious that Africa is now on India's agenda under radically altered geopolitical and economic circumstances, with billions of dollars invested in the continent and a new influx of migrants supplementing historic 'diasporas'.Despite these developments, China has occupied the limelight in discussions of Africa's burgeoning relations with the non-Western world. Gerard McCann redresses this balance with a critical analysis of India's rapidly changing commercial, political and cultural engagements with African countries, as well as its own diaspora. Going beyond bland assertions of continued 'South-South' solidarity to present a more nuanced picture, 'India and Africa - Old Friends, New Game' is an essential introduction to anyone interested in this complex and increasingly important relationship.
Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Warren Commission hearings.
India and Africa - Old Friends
Africa has long been linked with India - from ancient trading networks across the Indian Ocean, the historic presence of South Asian communities in eastern Africa, to the 'third worldist' solidarity of Jawaharlal Nehru. Beyond the laudatory tales of Gandhi's South African days, however, it is obvious that Africa is now on India's agenda under radically altered geopolitical and economic circumstances, with billions of dollars invested in the continent and a new influx of migrants supplementing historic 'diasporas'.Despite these developments, China has occupied the limelight in discussions of Africa's burgeoning relations with the non-Western world. Gerard McCann redresses this balance with a critical analysis of India's rapidly changing commercial, political and cultural engagements with African countries, as well as its own diaspora. Going beyond bland assertions of continued 'South-South' solidarity to present a more nuanced picture, 'India and Africa - Old Friends, New Game' is an essential introduction to anyone interested in this complex and increasingly important relationship.
Lustration
For Professor Luka Gabreski, scholar and son of a Polish emigre, the process of Lustration is more of an academic exercise than a personal quest. For Doctor Kasia Lubeka and others who live in the legacy of communist Poland, it is deeply personal. The operatives of the secret police and their informants have much to answer for; their influence never really went away. People are still at risk in this new Cold War. The threat is not only with those who fight to bring truth to light, but those for whom the nightmare of interrogation, surveillance and torture, never ended. In Poland for a conference, Luka soon realises that the dangers of shining a spotlight on the past are all too real, and as deadly as ever."
The Belfast Gazette
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