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Enthusiastically embraced by African presidents, G-7 leaders, and the UN General Assembly alike, the New Partnership for Africa's Development has been advanced as the vehicle that will vitalize the continent's economies. Ian Taylor critically explores just what Nepad is, and what potential it has—or lacks—for promoting African development

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Author's Acknowledgements -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Social Transitions of the Late Twentieth Century: 'Crime' and 'Fear' in Context -- The Job Crisis -- The Crisis of Material Poverty and Social Inequality -- Fear of Falling and Fear of the Other -- The Crisis of the Nation-state -- Crises of Inclusion and Exclusion -- Crisis in 'the Culture' -- Crises of Masculinity and the Gender Order -- Crises of the Family and Parenting -- 2 The Ninth Transition: The Rise of Market Society -- Market Structures -- Market Culture -- The entrepreneur as hero -- The market not the nation-state -- The market and the discourse of choice -- The market and 'self-interest' -- 3 Young People, Crime and Fear in Market Societies -- Unemployment and Insecurity -- Poverty in Childhood and in the Transition to Adulthood -- Youthful Insecurity and Risk in Market Society -- The War against the Young in Market Society -- The Absence of Subcultures -- Protest and Market Masculinity among the Young -- Household Formation, Household Non-formation and Homelessness -- The Omnipresence of Drugs and Alcohol -- Winners and Losers in Market Society: Present and Future Prospects -- 4 Crime in the City: Housing and Consumer Markets and the Social Geography of Crime and Anxiety in Market Society -- Images of Crime, Images of the City -- American Exemplars: Chicago to Los Angeles -- The Cities of Old Europe -- Cities of the Industrial Revolution -- The new urban police -- Spatial and social sequestration in the industrial city -- The 'Modern City' - Twentieth-Century Processes of Urban Development -- Slum clearance and the new life -- Post-war suburban Utopias -- The Problem Estate and the Demonization of Social Housing.

Literaturverz. S. 191 - 213 und Index