Decolonization and empire : contesting the rhetoric and practice of resubordination in southern Africa and beyond

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Author:

Saul, John S.

ISBN:

9780850365924

9781868144686

Personal Author:

Saul, John S.

Publication Information:

Monmouth, Wales : Merlin Press ; Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

202 p. ; 22 cm.

General Note:

Subtitle on cover: contesting the rhetoric and reality of resubordination in southern Africa and beyond.

Contents:

Introduction: The empire of capital -- Colonization-recolonization: the southern Africa case. Decolonizing the residues of empire ; Recolonization and the new empire of capital -- Revalidating vs. resisting empire: the global struggle. "Humanitarian imperialism": Ferguson, Ignatieff and the political science of good empire ; Regrounding resistance to the empire of capital -- Recolonization: revisiting the case. The strange death of liberated southern Africa -- Conclusion: Resistance.

Subject Term:

Capitalism.

Globalization.

Imperialism.

Decolonization -- Africa, Southern.

International economic relations.

Geographic Term:

Africa, Southern -- Economic conditions -- 1994-

Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.

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Approaching the subjects of empire and colonization in a new light, this survey states that the free global market and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization are actually recolonizing Southern Africa. This polemic argues that the unalloyed working of capitalism--the manufacture and exacerbation of a hierarchy that enlarges the gap between the rich and the poor--is self-creating and self-sustaining. It is also locked into place by governments and their institutions, leaving no space for an alternative structure. Those increasingly unable to defend themselves against the free global market have been recolonized into this capitalist system.