The idea of the mega-metropolis as the centre of political power. An opportunity to overcome permanent crisis within the institution of an African State (original) (raw)

2023, Change and Adaptations towards Sustainable Development Africa in the Contemporary World Literature – Education – Religion – Politics, A. ŻUKOWSKI, D. K. GEMECHU, J. GILAROWSKI, (Eds.).

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26403079

With recourse to the power relations instigated and fostered under the impact of globalization, the study aims to indicate the developmental potential associated with the deepening crisis between the traditional nation-state model and the accumulation of power by alternative centres, including the mega-metropolis. The hypothetical world order has been based, thus far, on the supremacy of the unfolding of conditions for development that could not be provided hitherto by the efforts of the nation-state. This is why it can be the case that the development taking place within Africa can accelerate together with adduced political change. In principle, the method of the study, in its descriptive layer, is drawn from a range of empirical scientific disciplines to depict the outline of the processes leading to the loss of power by the nation-state, and the gaining of power by alternative sources of authority, and to depict development and underdevelopment spreading across Africa. In turn, its explanative layer consists of political normative theory, in the main, grounded implicite in its initial phase in Marxist based thought but, together with the flow of analyses, supplemented by liberal thought and the personalism of Catholic Social Teaching, also implicite. Its interdisciplinarity method is marked by both its analytic and synthetic nature. The conducted analyses effected confirm the possibility of more effective development in Africa under the legacy of a new order. However, pointing out the possibility does not equate with its materialisation, which is why the study is indicating the necessity for further research within the field, rather than predicting any concrete turn of events or specific results.