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- W439578001 abstract "Expectations of Modernity is a gripping narrative of the other side of the “globalization process” that calls into question many of its assumptions. James Ferguson’s study of declining urban Zambia presents a sensitive and informed critique of modernization theory and of the widespread myth of access to the blessings of industrial consumer society for all if only the “market” can reach them. (Even UN Secretary Kofi Annan has recently joined the chorus of uncritical “globalists”.) It is a pity that it is unlikely to be read by those who need it most—those working in the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the development aid ministries of the “donor” countries. In this fascinating study, Ferguson reveal the painful “win-lose” situation that globalization is for many, especially in Africa. using the Zambian example, he questions the teleological models of modernization and industrial development that have long dominated economic and social science debates and led to so many misguided conclusions. He underlines that phases of material development and boom are not a linear move toward affluence but often temporary and, to the dismay of those caught up in them, apt to end in decline and deep crisis. The social and cultural effects of dramatic downturns are conveniently ignored by economists and advocates of unfettered globalization. When modernity, in its material shapes of industrialization, urbanization, economic growth, and rising consumption levels, collapses, personal disarray, loss of meaning, and despair can be the result (p. 14) as the ideological superstructure of values, aspirations, and expectations dissolves. Ferguson presents an interesting and acute analysis of such a process in Copperbelt Zambia. Zambia had a promising future at the time of its independence in 1964 because of its seemingly successful trajectory of industrialization and modernization" @default.
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- W439578001 title "What Remains of Modernity: Ferguson on 20th‐Century ZambiaExpectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. By James G. Ferguson. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. 326 pp. $45 cloth, $17.95 paper" @default.
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