Neoliberal Globalisation and Resistance from Below: Why the Subalterns Resist in Bolivia and Not in Ghana

ISBN-13: 9780367665692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str.

Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno

Opis

Using case studies from South Africa, Ghana and Bolivia this book seeks to address these important questions and demonstrate that the social-historical context in which the subalterns live plays a huge part in their definition of injustice and how they act against it.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Foreword by David B. Moore

Introduction: Uneven Resistance in the Context of Uneven Capitalist Development

Chapter One: Subalterns, Injustice, and Resistance

Chapter Two: The Social-Historical Approach to Agency: ‘Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will’

Chapter Three: Why the Subalterns Resist: the Cosmo-materialism of the Global Anti-Neoliberalism Resistance Movement

Chapter Four: The Rebellious Subalterns in Bolivia: Socio-Historical Dynamics of the Bolivian Model of Anti-neoliberalism

Chapter Five: Subaltern Agency and Resistance in the Social-Historical Context of The Gold Coast

Chapter Six: Neoliberalism and Resistance in Ghana

Chapter Seven: Electoral Democracy and Subaltern Resistance in Ghana

Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Intellectual and Political Implications

O autorze

Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication, Innovation and Technology, University for Development Studies, Ghana.