This book discusses the social and political consequences of the ecomic and financial crisis that befell African ecomies since the 1980s, using as case study the plantation ecomy of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. The focus is thus on recent efforts to liberalize and privatize an agro-industrial enterprise where overseas capital and its domestic partners have converged, the consequent modes of production and labour, and the alternatives proposed and resistance generated. The study details how the unprecedented crisis caused great commotion in the region, and presented a serious challenge to existing theories on plantation production and capital accumulation. The crisis resulted in the introduction of a number of neoliberal ecomic reforms, including the withdrawal of state intervention and the restructuring, liquidation and privatisation of the major agro-industrial enterprises. These reforms in turn had severe consequences for several civil-society groups and their organisations that had a direct stake in the regional plantation ecomy, tably the regional elite, chiefs, plantation workers and contract farmers. On the basis of extensive research in the Anglophone Cameroon region, Konings shows that these civil-society groups have never resigned themselves to their fate but have been actively involved in a variety of formal and informal modes of resistance.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Langaa Rpcig
ISBN-10
9956578037
ISBN-13
9789956578030
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104104713
Product Key Features
Author
Piet Konings
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Studies: General
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
357g
Height
216mm
Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Bemenda
Spine
15mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Date of Publication
01/12/2010
Genre
Social Studies: General
Country of Publication
Cameroon
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