Extracting Profit
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-60846-851-5 (ISBN)
Extracting Profit argues that the roots of today's social and economic conditions lie in the historical legacies of colonialism and the imposition of so-called 'reforms' by global financial institutions. The chokehold of debt and austerity of the late twentieth century paved the way for severe assaults on African working classes through neoliberal privatisation. And while the scramble for Africa's resources has heightened the pace of ecological devastation, examples from Somalia and the West African Ebola outbreak reveal a frightening surge of militarisation on the part of China and the U.S.
Lee Wengraf is a writer and activist in New York City. Her articles have appeared in International Socialist Review, Socialist Worker, Review of African Political Economy, Pambazuka News, AllAfrica, Jacobin, Truthout, Green Left Weekly and the Indypendent.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.03.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Chicago |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 228 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60846-851-8 / 1608468518 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60846-851-5 / 9781608468515 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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