Neoliberalism Civil Society And Security In Africa

Author : P. Carmody
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230598386

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Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Security in Africa by P. Carmody Pdf

Free market policies have been in operation across Africa for the past 25 years, yet they have failed to reverse deepening poverty. This book explores, with case studies, why such policies continue to be implemented and the ways in which they have been reinvented by socialization, depoliticization, regionalization and securitization.

Author : Usman A. Tar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857715760

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The Politics of Neoliberal Democracy in Africa by Usman A. Tar Pdf

Since the late 1980s the changing dynamic of global development has driven the tide of democratic expansion in the developing world. In Africa, western donors have sought to impose 'neo-liberal' visions of socio-economic and political institution-building, spreading political reforms and economic liberalisation with far-reaching consequences. Associated with external interventions, but also sometimes conflicting with them, are internal protests against authoritarianism, which have problematically reinforced and/or undermined the donor agenda for democratic reform.Here, Usman Tar questions the assumption that Africa was lacking the essential components for a spontaneous transition to democracy. He explores the dynamic, but contradictory, links between external and internal dimensions of neo-liberal democratic expansion in Africa, focusing on Nigeria. Tar dissects the struggles for democracy, and for democratic policy and practice in a country with rich economic potential but a troubled political dispensation.

Author : Piet Konings
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956717101

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The Politics of Neoliberal Reforms in Africa by Piet Konings Pdf

Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa. Faced with a deep economic and political crisis, African governments have been compelled by powerful external agencies, in particular the Bretton Woods institutions and western states, to pursue this agenda as a necessary precondition for the receipt of development aid. What is particularly striking in Africa, however, is that neoliberal experiments there have displayed such remarkable diversity. This may be due not only to substantial differences in historical, economic and political trajectories on the African continent but also, and maybe more importantly, in the degree of resistance internal actors have demonstrated to the neoliberal reforms imposed on them. This book focuses on Cameroon which has had a complex economic and political history and is currently witnessing resistance to the neoliberal experiment by the authoritarian and neopatrimonial state elite and various civil-society groups. It is the culmination of over twenty years of fine and refined research by one of the leading scholars of Cameroon today.

Author : Nana Poku,Jim Whitman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317184447

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Africa Under Neoliberalism by Nana Poku,Jim Whitman Pdf

The period since the 1980s has seen sustained pressure on Africa’s political elite to anchor the continent’s development strategies in neoliberalism in exchange for vitally needed development assistance. Rafts of policies and programmes have come to underpin the relationship between continental governments and the donor communities of the West and particularly their institutions of global governance – the International Financial Institutions. Over time, these policies and programmes have sought to transform the authority and capacity of the state to effect social, political and economic change, while opening up the domestic space for transnational capital and ideas. The outcome is a continent now more open to international capital, export-oriented and liberal in its political governance. Has neoliberalism finally arrested under development in Africa? Bringing together leading researchers and analysts to examine key questions from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book involves a fundamental departure from orthodox analysis which often predicates colonialism as the referent object. Here, three decades of neoliberalism with its complex social and economic philosophy are given primacy. With the changed focus, an elucidation of the relationship between global development and local changes is examined through a myriad of pressing contemporary issues to offer a critical multi-disciplinary appraisal of challenge and change in Africa over the past three decades.

Author : Piet Konings
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956716371

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Neoliberal Bandwagonism. Civil society and the politics of belonging in Anglophone Cameroon by Piet Konings Pdf

Civil society and empowerment have become buzz words in neoliberal development discourse. Yet many unanswered questions remain on the actual nature and configuration assumed by civil society in specific contexts. Typically, while neoliberals perceive civil-society organisations as vital intermediary channels for the successful implementation of desired economic and political reforms, they are inclined to blame the current resurgence of the politics of belonging for the poor record of these reforms in Africa and elsewhere. This book rejects such notions and argues that the relationship between civil society and the politics of belonging is more complex in Africa than western donors and scholars are willing to admit. Konings argues that ethno-regional associations and movements are even more significant constituents of civil society in Africa than the conventional civil-society organisations that are often uncritically imposed or endorsed. He convincingly shows how the politics of belonging, so pervasive in Cameroon, and indeed much of Africa, during the current neoliberal economic and political reforms, has tended to penetrate the entire range of associational life. This calls for a critical re-appraisal of prevalent notions and assumptions about civil society in the interest of African reality. Hence the importance of this book!

Author : J. Mensah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230617216

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Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa by J. Mensah Pdf

This book looks at Africa's involvement in contemporary neoliberal globalization, paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, and cultural cost of the unbalanced structure of global wealth and power between Africa and the rest of the world.

Author : Shaukat Ansari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030697662

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Neoliberalism and Resistance in South Africa by Shaukat Ansari Pdf

This book critically examines the persistence of market orthodoxy in post-apartheid South Africa and the civil society resistance such policies have generated over a twenty-five-year period. Each chapter unpacks the key political coalitions and economic dynamics, domestic as well as global, that have sustained neoliberalism in the country since the transition to liberal democracy in 1994. Chapter 1 analyzes the political economy of segregation and apartheid, as well as the factors that drove the democratic reform and the African National Congress’ (ANC) subsequent abandonment of redistribution in favor of neoliberal policies. Further chapters explore the causes and consequences of South Africa’s integration into the global financial markets, the limitations of the post-apartheid social welfare program, the massive labour strikes and protests that have erupted throughout the country, and the role of the IMF and World Bank in policymaking. The final chapters also examine the political and economic barriers thwarting the emergence of a viable post-apartheid developmental state, the implications of monopoly capital and foreign investment for democracy and development, and the phenomenon of state capture during the Jacob Zuma Presidency.

Author : Lennart Wohlgemuth
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9171064508

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Common Security and Civil Society in Africa by Lennart Wohlgemuth Pdf

This book is the outcome of a conference on common security and civil society in Africa. The contributions seek to go beyond the "war of images" to imagine a different and more secure future. They are concerned with five different themes: economic and social change; prevention of violent conflicts; the causes of conflict; political security, and the international politics of development partnership.

Author : Emel Akçalı
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137542991

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Neoliberal Governmentality and the Future of the State in the Middle East and North Africa by Emel Akçalı Pdf

This volume is a theoretical analysis of the current crises of state and societal transformations in the Middle East and North Africa. The emphasis on the impact and limits of neoliberal governmentality places these uprisings within the specific contextual and structural environment of neoliberal globalization.

Author : Gillian MacNaughton,Diane F. Frey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108418157

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Economic and Social Rights in a Neoliberal World by Gillian MacNaughton,Diane F. Frey Pdf

This multidisciplinary book examines the potential of economic and social rights to contest adverse impacts of neoliberalism on human wellbeing.

Author : Zeynep Gambetti,Marcial Godoy-Anativia
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814708439

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Rhetorics of Insecurity by Zeynep Gambetti,Marcial Godoy-Anativia Pdf

In Rhetorics of Insecurity, Zeynep Gambetti and Marcial Godoy-Anativia bring together a select group of scholars to investigate the societal ramifications of the present-day concern with security in diverse contexts and geographies. The essays claim that discourses and practices of security actually breed insecurity, rather than merely being responses to the latter. By relating the binary of security/insecurity to the binary of neoliberalism/neoconservatism, the contributors to this volume reveal the tensions inherent in the proliferation of individualism and the concurrent deployment of techniques of societal regulation around the globe. Chapters explore the phenomena of indistinction, reversal of terms, ambiguity, and confusion in security discourses. Scholars of diverse backgrounds interpret the paradoxical simultaneity of the suspension and enforcement of the law through a variety of theoretical and ethnographic approaches, and they explore the formation and transformation of forms of belonging and exclusion. Ultimately, the volume as a whole aims to understand one crucial question: whether securitized neoliberalism effectively spells the end of political liberalism as we know it today. Zeynep Gambetti is Associate Professor of Political Theory at Bogazici University, Istanbul. Marcial Godoy-Anativia is Associate Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, where he serves as coeditor of its online journal e-misférica.

Author : E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066816631

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Against Global Capitalism by E. Osei Kwadwo Prempeh Pdf

Outlines a dialectical perspective of the hegemony of neoliberal globalisation and the counter-hegemonic contestation and resistance through social movements. Discusses the New Partnership for Africa's development (NEPAD), campaigns concerning debt cancellation and HIV/AIDS treatment, trade issues, and the privatization of water.

Author : Gladys Lechini de Alvarez,Atilio Borón
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Hegemony
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173016955357

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Politics and Social Movements in an Hegemonic World by Gladys Lechini de Alvarez,Atilio Borón Pdf

Author : James Ferguson
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015063244845

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Global Shadows by James Ferguson Pdf

DIVA collection of Ferguson's essays that bring the question of Africa into the center of current debates on globalization, modernity, and emerging forms of world order./div

Author : Ray Bush
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123284411

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Poverty and Neoliberalism by Ray Bush Pdf

Why do so many people worldwide suffer hunger and poverty when there is enough food and other resources globally to prevent it? This book shows how famine and food insecurity is an essential part of modern capitalism. Although trade, debt relief, and development initiatives are important, they do not alter the structure of the global economy and the poverty that is created by processes like privatization, trade liberalization, and market reform. Despite the rhetoric of the World Bank and the G8, high levels of poverty actually sustain western wealth and power. But there is some hope for change. Using case studies from Egypt and North Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ray Bush illustrates that there is resistance to neoliberal policies, and that struggles over line, mining, and resources can shape real alternatives to existing globalization.