Antoinette Handley

Business and Social Crisis in Africa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426312
• ISBN-10: 110842631X
• Artikelnr.: 56875634

Autorenporträt

Antoinette Handley is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto where her research focuses on state-business relations and the nature of the capitalist class in Africa. She has been awarded Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships, and the World Politics Research Fellowship at Princeton University, New Jersey. She is the author of Business and the State in Africa: Economic Policy Making in the Neo-Liberal Era (Cambridge, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Doing business like a state: the response to social crisis; Part I.
Business, HIV/AIDS and the Provision of Public Health: 2. Not our business:
HIV/AIDS in Kenya and Uganda; 3. Healthy responses: HIV/AIDS in South
Africa and Botswana; Part II. Business, Political Crisis and the Provision
of Broader Social Stability: 4. The business of business is politics:
political and electoral violence in South Africa and Kenya; 5. Business
interests and the broader social good in the developing world.