The imagined Africa of the West: a critical perspective on Western imaginations of Africa
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The imagined Africa of the West : a critical perspective on Western imaginations of Africa. / Larsen, Rune; Jensen, Stig Eduard Breitenstein.
I: Review of African Political Economy, Bind 47, Nr. 164, 2020, s. 324-334.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The imagined Africa of the West
T2 - a critical perspective on Western imaginations of Africa
AU - Larsen, Rune
AU - Jensen, Stig Eduard Breitenstein
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This debate piece discusses how exceptionalised images of Africa are reproduced in contemporary Western discourse and imagination, and argues that these exceptionalised depictions of Africa enable Western consciousness to escape a confrontation with its own dysfunctionalities, hereby projecting all the excremental features characterising human existence on to its African Other. This is interpreted as a way for Western subjects to alter themselves into a position of idealised and imagined advanced civilisation – thus legitimising contemporary acts of neo-colonial exploitation in Africa.
AB - This debate piece discusses how exceptionalised images of Africa are reproduced in contemporary Western discourse and imagination, and argues that these exceptionalised depictions of Africa enable Western consciousness to escape a confrontation with its own dysfunctionalities, hereby projecting all the excremental features characterising human existence on to its African Other. This is interpreted as a way for Western subjects to alter themselves into a position of idealised and imagined advanced civilisation – thus legitimising contemporary acts of neo-colonial exploitation in Africa.
U2 - 10.1080/03056244.2019.1660155
DO - 10.1080/03056244.2019.1660155
M3 - Journal article
VL - 47
SP - 324
EP - 334
JO - Review of African Political Economy
JF - Review of African Political Economy
SN - 0305-6244
IS - 164
ER -
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