Globalism as a framework entrenches rather than disrupts inherited colonial notions of Africa.

Evidence

But the capacity of globalism to have any real effect on African Studies would lie in its ability to disrupt the idea of Africa inherited from the history of European imperialism. Not only does it not disrupt this notion, it entrenches it in notions of the “Third World.1’ Just as global capital is the new diffused center, so the doctrine of internationalism is the new cultural imperialism. We no longer look to London or Paris or even New York but to an amorphous circulation of power to which we want to belong. This we call the international. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3411

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to critiques of ‘internationalism’ and the global south in postcolonial theory, and to Goldberg’s own work on racial states. — connects to: Hegelian thought framed Africa as outside history to justify colonial supremacy. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 37