Decolonization and Empire: Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond - Softcover

Saul, John S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1868144682 ISBN 13: 9781868144686

Publisher: Wits University Press

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

John S. Saul is Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Science at Toronto's York University.

Review

"John Saul's ability to draw historical lessons, maintain a sober balance, ask the toughest and most probing questions, admit historic mistakes, and still have confidence in a future for bottom-up not top-down African (and international) social justice, sets him far apart from and well ahead of the scholarly norm. -Patrick Bond, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal"

Edition details

• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1868144682
• ISBN 13: 9781868144686
• Binding: Paperback