TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benyera,Everisto
TI  - The fourth industrial revolution and the recolonisation of Africa: the coloniality of data 
T2  - Routledge contemporary Africa
SN  - 9781003157731
AV  - HF1611.Z4 
U1  - 337.604 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - International business enterprises
KW  - Africa
KW  - Data mining
KW  - Political Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political Science / International Relations
KW  - Political Science / World / African
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - Foreign economic relations
KW  - Europe
KW  - United States
N1  - Data coloniality: A decolonial perspective of Africa and the 4IR -- Historicising Africa's subjugation -- Contextualising the colonial project in Africa -- Data mining, harvesting and datafication -- Networks, big data and data coloniality: Whither Africa's sovereignty? -- The 4IR as the mother of all destructions and accumulations -- Mapping Africa's destiny in the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- Africa's eunuch condition and the omnipresent footprints of the four industrial revolutions
N2  - "This book argues that the fourth industrial revolution, the process of accelerated automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices via digital technology, will serve to further marginalise Africa within the international community. In this book, the author argues that the looting of Africa that started with human capital and then natural resources, now continues unabated via data and digital resources looting. Developing on the notion of "Coloniality of Data", the fourth industrial revolution is postulated as the final phase which will conclude Africa's peregrination towards recolonisation. Global cartels, networks of coloniality, and tech multi-national corporations have turned Big Data into capital, which is left unguarded in Africa as the continent lacks the strong institutions necessary to regulate the mining of data. Written from a decolonial perspective, this book employs three analytical pillars of coloniality of power, knowledge and being. It concludes with an assessment of what could be done to help to turn the fourth industrial revolution from a curse into a resource. Highlighting the crippling continuation of asymmetrical global power relations, this book will be an important read for researchers of African studies, politics and international political economy"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003157731
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -