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Author : Henry Bernstein,Bonnie K. Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608011207
Author : Henry Bernstein,Bonnie K. Campbell
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4449366
Economic analysis, capitalist economic development, economic theory of dependence, Africa south of Sahara - colonialism in Lesotho 1890-1930, capitalism, state intervention in Kenya and Nigeria, African socialism, economic policy in Guinea 1958-1981 and Mali 1960- 1982, export-oriented capitalist farming, public expenditure Cote d' Ivoire. Graphs, references.
Author : Issa G. Shivji
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789987080311
The "Washington consensus" which ushered in neo-liberal policies in Africa is over. It was buried at the G20 meeting in London in early April, 2009. The world capitalist system is in shambles. The champions of capitalism in the global North are rewriting the rules of the game to save it. The crisis creates an opening for the global South, in particular Africa, to refuse to play the capitalist-imperialist game, whatever the rules. It is time to rethink and revisit the development direction and strategies on the continent. This is the central message of this intensely argued book. Issa Shivji demonstrates the need to go back to the basics of radical political economy and ask fundamental questions: who produces the society's surplus product, who appropriates and accumulates it and how is this done. What is the character of accumulation and what is the social agency of change? The book provides an alternative theoretical framework to help African researchers and intellectuals to understand their societies better and contribute towards changing them in the interest of the working people.
Author : Sam Moyo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9782869783843
This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land question, its land reforms and their effects on development. To unravel the roots of land conflicts in Africa requires thorough understanding of the complex social and political contradictions which have ensued from colonial and post-colonial land policies, as well as from Africa's 'development' and capital accumulation trajectories, especially with regard to the land rights of the continent's poor. The study thus questions the capacity of emerging neo-liberal economic and political regimes in Africa to deliver land reforms which address growing inequality and poverty. It equally questions the understanding of the nature of popular demands for land reforms by African states, and their ability to address these demands under the current global political and economic structures dictated by neo-liberalism and its narrow regime of ownership. The study invites scholars and policy makers to creatively draw on the specific historical trajectories and contemporary expression of the land and agrarian questions in Africa, to enrich both theory and practice on land in Africa.
Author : Elijah Mudenda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : National liberation movements
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111579970
Author : Gumede, Vusi
Publisher : Africa Institute of South Africa
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780798305204
This book addresses a fundamental developmental challenge for Africa: given all that we know about pertinent issues, what should be done to ensure effective development in Africa? The changing imperatives of international development, the reform of international finance institutions and the growth-development nexus debates as well as varied implications for Africa emanating from global economic crises are critical if Africa’s development is to be better understood. Undoubtedly, revisiting the origins, contexts, complexities and contradictions of the lopsided global order and their effects on development and implications for Africa’s development is necessary. Contributions emphasise the need to radically transform global relations and to accelerate the pursuit of our quest for inclusive development in Africa; acknowledging that we must further problematise Africa’s development in the context of the obtaining global power dynamics and systematically examine the implications of the global economic crises for women as well as for land and agrarian reforms. The book is a timely contribution to our understanding of the global realities confronting Africa, with specific suggestions on how to improve development.
Author : Hosea Jaffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783609871
Spanning more than two thousand years of African history, from the African Iron Age to the collapse of colonialism and the beginnings of independence, Hosea Jaffe's magisterial work remains one of the few to do full justice to the continent's complex and diverse past. The great strength of Jaffe's work lies in its unique theoretical perspective, which stresses the distinctive character of Africa's social structures and historical development. Crucially, Jaffe rejects all efforts to impose Eurocentric models of history onto Africa, whether it be liberal notions of 'progress' or Marxist theories of class struggle, arguing instead that the key dynamics underpinning African history are unique to the continent itself, and rooted in conflicts between different modes of production. The work also includes a foreword by the distinguished economist and political theorist Samir Amin, in which he outlines the contribution of Jaffe's work to our understanding of African history and its ongoing post-colonial struggles.
Author : David Ernest Apter,Carl Gustav Rosberg
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813914795
Since the 1950s David Apter and Carl Rosenberg have been among the leading American scholars in African Studies. In this volume they, along with other major specialists in the field, explore the new configurations of African politics. With tentative efforts at a revival of democracy now taking place, it seems appropriate to reasses the theoretical debates ad empirical themes that have characterized postwar Sub-Saharan African politics. Focusing on "new realism" that has emerged among Africanists since the dismantling of colonial rule, the essays are presented as a corrective both to the initial euphoria informing African studies and to the later tendency to place blame for all Africa's political and economic difficulties on the receding specter of colonial oppression.
Author : Henry Bernstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317827443
This is the first collection of its kind. It presents a critical political economy of the agrarian question in post-apartheid South Africa, informed by the results of research undertaken since the transition from apartheid started in 1990. The articles, by well-known South African, British and American scholars, cover a variety of topical theoretical, empirical and policy issues, firmly rooted in an historical perspective.
Author : Janet MacGaffey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107634909
Originally published in 1987, this book demonstrates the emergence of an indigenous bourgeoisie of local capitalists without political position in Zaire.
Author : Dieter Neubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030171117
This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored. For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies – and in other societies of the world – we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199360260
"David Harvey examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. While the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe"--
Author : Tim Zajontz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031444494
This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters. Case studies cover the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Zambia’s road sector as well as Tanzania’s Bagamoyo port and Standard Gauge Railway. It is shown that African (state) agency in the infrastructure sector is contingent upon dynamic state-society relations and distinct political-economic contexts and constraints. The book problematises contradictions related to infrastructure debt, the emergence of Sino-African public-private partnerships and the intensifying geopolitics-cum-geoeconomics of infrastructure across Africa.
Author : John Sender,Sheila Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136856716
First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa’s past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards. In marked contrast to the dependency approach, they propose that the important political and economic differences between the experiences of developing countries should be stressed and analysed. The argument is supported by a detailed look at the emergence since 1900 of capitalist social relations of production in nine different countries.
Author : Scott Rosenberg,Richard F. Weisfelder
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810879829
Lesotho is rather different from most other African countries. For starters, it is a kingdom, which preserves a traditional hierarchy and customs, and its population consists of one fairly homogenous ethnic group, although admittedly there are differences and occasional rifts within it. Then, it is a landlocked country, completely surrounded by South Africa on which is depends heavily. Economically, it has not been doing particularly well, this partly because the country is so poorly endowed by nature, and its people often eke out a living abroad. Politically, there have been ups and downs, the downs fortunately lying in the past, with Lesotho doing somewhat better since the latest elections. Socially and culturally, as hinted, it is quite unique and this can be gathered from reading the book. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Lesotho covers the full scope of Lesotho’s ancient, colonial, and independence eras. It gives greater emphasis to the more recent period and brings the book fully up-to-date. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on civil society, key events, leaders, governmental, international, religious, and other private organizations, policies, political movements and parties, economic elements, and many other areas that have shaped the country’s trajectory. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Lesotho.
