Crisis and Neoliberal Reforms in Africa - Civil Society and Agro-industry in Anglophone Cameroon's Plantation Economy (Paperback)

This book discusses the social and political consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell African economies since the 1980s, using as case study the plantation economy 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 economic 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 economy, notably 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.

General

Imprint:	Langaa RPCID
Country of origin:	Cameroon
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	December 2010
Authors:	Piet Konings
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-9956578030
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
LSN:	9956578037
Barcode:	9789956578030

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