Global Challenges and Local Reactions: Czech Republic and South Africa

ISBN-13: 9783643905918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 244 str.

Hana Horakova; Stephanie Rudwick

Opis

This book presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the large-scale processes of socio-economic and political change of two "young" democracies: post-apartheid South Africa and the post-socialist Czech Republic. As the political transition in both countries coincides with the intensified effects of globalization, especially with the advent of neoliberal economic ideologies and policies, the two countries exhibit a number of common features and parallels in their respective transitions and post-developments. The book's chapters describe the particular place(s) South Africa and the Czech Republic occupy in the dual processes of internationalization and globalization. (Series: International Politics / Internationale Politik - Vol. 19)

O autorze

Hana Horáková is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at Metropolitan University Prague.

Stephanie Rudwick currently holds a research position at the Afrikanistik Institute at Leipzig University, funded by the German Research Foundation.