Shopping malls in the global South have been expanding rapidly, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, since 2000. Among others, they are seen as part of the processes of globalization, modernization and modernity. Using a mixed-methods approach based on case study of malls in Accra, Ghana, this study argues that malls in the global South, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, project images of modernity on account that they are framed as multiple loci of collective consumption and, as well, tend to represent nodes of global convergence.

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购物中心、现代性和消费：购物中心作为加纳阿克拉现代性的新投影仪

自 2000 年以来，南半球的购物中心一直在迅速扩张，尤其是在撒哈拉以南非洲。除其他外，它们被视为全球化、现代化和现代化进程的一部分。本研究使用基于加纳阿克拉购物中心案例研究的混合方法方法，认为全球南部，特别是撒哈拉以南非洲的购物中心投射现代性形象，因为它们被框定为集体消费的多重场所 和，也倾向于代表全局收敛的节点。