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

ISBN-13: 9781472441805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 250 str.

Jasper Ayelazuno

Opis

Despite the professed global nature of 'globalization-from-below' there are still swathes of the world that have not taken part in this wave of resistance. Considering subalterns face diverse forms of injustices, which one is so intolerable that they resist and why? How does the social-historical context in which the subalterns live shape their political agency and resistance? What explains their different political behaviour under similar economic conditions? Using case studies from South Africa, Ghana and Bolivia Neoliberal Globalization, Subalterns and Resistance 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. The author draws on a comparative-historical sociological approach to studying social phenomenonand through this yields new theoretical and empirical insights about subaltern political agency and resistance in the era of neoliberalism.

O autorze

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