Cultural Dimensions of Globalization in Africa: A Dialectical Interpenetration of the Local and the Global

In: Studies in political economy: SPE ; a socialist review, Heft 77, S. 57-83

Abstract

In this article in the special section on Africa in Focus, the author critically discusses the debates on the cultural effects of globalization on Africa by using a dialectical analysis framework to show the heterogeneous cultural effects of the growing integration of African politics in spaces & global circuits of commodities & ideas. A discussion of the nature of dialectics as a framework for study contextualizes the investigation of globalization & culture as dialectical phenomena of glocalization, cultural hybridity, & indigenization is related to the works of Leslie Sklar, Herbert Schiller, & Samuel Huntington, among others. The assertion that oppositional voices emerge from incomplete hegemonic spaces supports the author's conclusion that dialectic analysis contributes to understanding the ongoing globalization induced erosion of African culture. References. J. Harwell