Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and Imperial Security in Africa - Explaining the Riots in Europe and Terrorism in Africa

Klappentext Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa is an interdisciplinary treatment of a topic that is usually addressed by political scientists and military strategists. Rather than follow Thomas P. M. Barnett's, Samuel Huntington's and Edward Saïd's top-down approach to the turn-of-the-twenty-first century clash of the West and the Rest, this book takes readers on a three thousand year, grassroots journey through imperialism, linguistics, and applied critical theory to show readers that peace eludes us because we are not all working with the same definition of national security. By adding a Saharan world trade system to the conventional Oriental-Occidental binary of traditional Western Civilization narratives, this book opens a view of Western Europe as a colonized territory of a medieval Roman empire that never died. A parallel imperial reorganization occurred in West Asia. Both systems deployed patriarchy as a gender bomb to implode and conquer matriarchal economies. This clash of European, West Asian and African matriarchal and patriarchal empires was the crucible that produced the United States of America as elder sibling of the family of post-colonial frontier nations. The author argues that patriarchal imperialists of Africa, Western Asia and Western Europe tempted matriarchal men to betray the rights of women in exchange for the benefits of patria potestas. Patriarchal empires then corrupt definitions of fatherhood and dehumanize the conquered men until they suffer from a societal malaise that the author calls patria impotestas. Such economically castrated men revolted in the past and they respond now with twenty-first century mass protests against austerity measures in Europe and protests against Wall Street in the U.S. as well as with acts of terrorism and, tragically, war crimes against women. In this book, the most insecure people are the elite. The author concludes that terrorism, piracy and acts of sabotage against industrial physical plants will continue in Africa, Asia and the West until ordinary people around the world have positive answers to the Primordial Question: Will my family eat today and sleep peacefully through the night?...

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• Authors: Marsha Robinson, Marsha Robinson (COR), Marsha Robinson, Marsha R. Robinson
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.09.2012, delayed
• EAN: 9780739168554
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6855-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Terrorism, armed struggle, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, African History, Demonstrations & protest movements, African Studies, African Political Science, Society and Politics