Lee Wengraf

Extracting Profit

Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A piercing historical explanation for poverty and inequality in African societies today, and social impact of resource-driven growth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781608468515
• ISBN-10: 1608468518
• Artikelnr.: 47745081

Autorenporträt

Lee Wengraf is a writer and activist in New York City. Her articles have appeared in International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, Review of African Political Economy, Pambazuka News, AllAfrica, Jacobin, Truthout, Green Left Weekly and the Indypendent.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Part I - Historical overview
Chapter 1 - Introduction and Overview: A Marxist framework for poverty and
inequality in Africa
Chapter 2 - Legacies of Colonialism: Independence and national development
(1960-1975)
Chapter 3 - Neoliberalism in Africa: Crisis, debt and structural adjustment
(1975-2000)
Part II - "The New Scramble for Africa"
Chapter 4 - "Rising Africa": Investment boom and the dynamics of growth
Chapter 5 - Resource Curse or Resource Wars? The extractive landscape of
the new scramble for Africa
Chapter 6 - Overproduction and the new crisis: Their explanation and ours
Chapter 7 - Militarism and the Rise of AFRICOM: Imperial rivalries in
Africa
Chapter 8 - Class struggle and permanent revolution: Africa's "new
scramble" and resistance today