Lee Wengraf

Extracting Profit (eBook, ePUB)

Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Extracting profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. This period of "Africa rising did not lead to the creation of jobs but has instead fueled the growth of the extraction of natural resources and an increasingly-wealthy African ruling class.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608468768
• Artikelnr.: 50918253

Autorenporträt

Lee Wengraf: Lee Wengraf is a socialist and activist based in New York City. She writes on Africa for the International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, Pambazuka News and Review of African Political Economy.

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