When 'Adjusted' People Rebel: Volume 29: Economic Liberalization and Social revolts in Africa and the Middle East (1980s to the present day)

ISBN-13: 9781009069960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Leyla Dakhli; Vincent Bonnecase

Opis

This volume examines social movements and unrest in the Middle East and Africa and the implementation of neoliberal economic policies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: interpreting the global economy through local anger Leyla Dakhli and Vincent Bonnecase; 2. Remembering the 1977 bread riots in Suez: fragments and ghosts of resistance Nayera Abdelrahman Soliman; 3. The fair value of bread: Tunisia, 28 December 1983–6 January 1984 Leyla Dakhli; 4. 'We cannot please everyone': contentions over adjustment in EPRDF Ethiopia (1991–2018) Mehdi Labzaé and Sabine Planel; 5. Peasant resistance in Burkina Faso's cotton sector Bettina Engels; 6. Privatizing the commons: protest and the moral economy of national resources in Jordan Matthew Lacouture; 7. 'Fraudonomics': cartooning against structural adjustment in Togo Robin Frisch; 8. International Monetary Fund riots or Nasserian revolt? Thinking fluid memories: Egypt 1977 Mélanie Henry; 9. Democracy and adjustment in Niger: a conflict of rationales Vincent Bonnecase; 10. A well-adjusted debt: how the international anti-debt movement failed to delink debt relief and structural adjustment Hélène Baillot.