India's Development Diplomacy & Soft Power in Africa. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kenneth King, Jagannath Panda, Mrittika Guha Sarkar, Muhidin J. Shangwe, Meera Venkatachalam, Professor Gerard McCann, Dr Chambi Chachage, Dr Jacqueline Halima Mgumia, Dr Emma Mawdsley, Supriya Roychoudhury, Dr Vincent Duclos, Simona Vittorini.
• Editors: King, Kenneth; Venkatachalam, Meera
• Other Names: Panda, Jagannath contributor.; Sarkar, Mrittika Guha contributor.; Shangwe, Muhidin J contributor.; Professor McCann, Professor Gerard contributor.; Dr Chachage, Dr Chambi contributor.; Dr Mgumia, Dr Jacqueline Halima contributor.; Dr Mawdsley, Dr Emma contributor.; Roychoudhury, Supriya contributor.; Dr Duclos, Dr Vincent contributor.; Vittorini, Simona contributor.
• Contents: Introduction: India-Africa Now: Changing Imaginaries and Knowledge Paradigms; Meera Venkatachalam and Kenneth King ; ; PART 1: The Geopolitical Imaginary and Soft Power ; 1. India's Soft Power in East Africa: Opportunities and Challenges; Muhidin J. Shangwe ; ; 2. Between Business and Balance: India-Japan in Africa vis-à-vis China; Mrittika Guha Sarkar and Jagannath Panda ; ; PART 2: The Indian Political Right and the Reconfiguration of Soft Power in Africa ; 3. The Indian Political Right, Soft Power, and the Reimagination of Africa; Meera Venkatachalam ; ; 4. Modi and the Mahatma - The Politics of Statues and the Saffronisation of India-Africa relations; Simona Vittorini ; ; PART 3: Capacity building: Shifting Modalities and New Knowledgescapes ; 5. India's Changing Human Resource Diplomacy with Africa, and Africa's Responses; Kenneth King ; ; 6. A Shining Example: Modelling Growth in India's Pan-African e-Network; Vincent Duclos ; ; 7. Partnership in Times of Pandemic: India's Covid Diplomacy with a Lens on Africa; Supriya Roychoudhury and Emma Mawdsley ; ; PART 4: Skilling, Knowledge Transfer, and Indo-African Interactions ; 8. Precarious Partnerships: Tanzanian Entrepreneurs of Asian and African Descent; Jacqueline Halima Mgumia and Chambi Chachage ; ; 9. The Trumpets and Travails of South-South Cooperation: African Students in India since the 1940s; Gerard McCann ; ; Conclusion: Reflections on India-Africa Studies, Development Cooperation, and Soft Power; Kenneth King and Meera Venkatachalam
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade; Development studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800102842; 1800102844
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