Against Global Capitalism: African Social Movements Confront Neoliberal Globalization

by Prempeh,E. Osei Kwadwo

• ISBN13: 9780754647645
• ISBN10: 0754647641
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The fundamental challenge of democratizing globalization by opening up spaces for democratic participation beyond the state, is addressed in this study. Prempeh seeks to capture both the democratic activities and voices of opposition to neoliberal globalization and investigates how this reinvention of democracy through resistance to neoliberal globalization has taken shape in the African context. In doing so, it reasserts the relevance of the deglobalization and anti-capitalism movements. With a careful selection of case studies, this volume is ideal for classroom use and library reference.

Table of Contents

Introduction

'Convential' Views and Perspectives on Neoliberal Globalization

The No Alternative Discourse

Understanding globalization; The Third Way: globalization lite or real alternative?.

Contestation and Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization

Radical Alternative Visions

The deglobalization and anti-capitalism movement and alternative visions to neoliberal globalization; The anti-capitalism movement and African resistance to neoliberal globalization

Contemporary Applied Issues and the Reinvention of Democracy Through Mass Mobilization and Resistance

The anti-capitalism movement and African resistance to neoliberal globalization African social movements engagement with the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD); Articulating resistance to medical apartheid

the Campaign for HIV/AIDS drugs in Africa; Against water privatization

the struggle continues; Social movements and the campaign for debt cancellation

resisting debt domination

Social movements and the new trade regime: an issue of fairness, not charity

Index

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