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Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa : Revolution at a Bargain? / by Michael H. Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Michael H., 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Africa.
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- International economic relations.
- Political science.
- Globalization.
- African Politics.
- African Culture.
- International Economics.
- Political Science.
- Local Subjects:
- African Politics.
- African Culture.
- International Economics.
- Political Science.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XV, 236 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction : questions from a gestalt moment
- 2. Theory and context
- 3. Violence, capital flows, and bargaining power
- 4. Financial globalization, debt negotiations, and reform in South Africa
- 5. Negotiating economic justice : globalization or socialism?
- 6. Revolution at a bargain?
- 7. Globalist and non-sexist?
- 8. Negotiating democracy
- 9. Conclusion : the failure of transformation.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611369705
- 9781281369703
- 1281369705
- 9781403983077
- 1403983070
- OCLC:
- 560471047
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