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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784155803321

Autore

Allen Michael H. <1952->

Titolo

Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa [[electronic resource] ] : Revolution at a Bargain? / / by Michael H. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2006

ISBN

1-281-36970-5

9786611369705

1-4039-8307-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 236 pages)

Disciplina

330.968

Soggetti

Africa - Politics and government

Ethnology - Africa

Culture

International economic relations

Political science

Globalization

African Politics

African Culture

International Economics

Political Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : questions from a gestalt moment -- 2. Theory and context -- 3. Violence, capital flows, and bargaining power -- 4. Financial globalization, debt negotiations, and reform in South Africa -- 5. Negotiating economic justice : globalization or socialism? -- 6. Revolution at a bargain? -- 7. Globalist and non-sexist? -- 8. Negotiating democracy -- 9. Conclusion : the failure of transformation.

Sommario/riassunto

The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the



imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.