Peter Dwyer, Leo Zeilig

African Struggles Today (eBook, ePUB)

Social Movements Since Independence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations in relating both to the attendant inequality of globalization and to grassroots struggles for social justice.

Peter Dwyer is a tutor in economics at Ruskin College in Oxford.

Leo Zeilig Lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608463084
• Artikelnr.: 49605100

Autorenporträt

Peter Dwyer: Peter Dwyer is a tutor in economics at Ruskin College in Oxford. As a lifelong trade union member, he has been involved as a researcher and campaigner in a variety of social movement campaigns in both in the UK and South Africa. He has written extensively on political change in South Africa.

Dr Leo Zeilig is a lecturer at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He has written widely on student movements and radical politics in Africa. He is the author of Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in sub-Saharan Africa I.B. Tauris (London & New York, 2007) and Class Struggle and Resistance in Africa (Haymarket Books, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter One
Introduction * Chapter Two
Social movements and the working class in Africa * Chapter Three
An epoch of uprisings: Social movements in post
colonial Africa, 1945
1998 * Chapter Four
South African social movements * Chapter Five
Social movements after the transition: Choiceless Democracies? * Chapter Six
Frustrated transitions: social movements, protest and repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe and Swaziland * Chapter Seven
Social Forums and the World Social Forum in Africa * Chapter Eight
Conclusion * Bibliography