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    Crisis and Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: Civil Society and Agro-Industry in Anglophone Cameroon�s Plantation Economy
    Crisis and Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: Civil Society and Agro-Industry in Anglophone Cameroon�s Plantation Economy
    Crisis and Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: Civil Society and Agro-Industry in Anglophone Cameroon�s Plantation Economy
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    Crisis and Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: Civil Society and Agro-Industry in Anglophone Cameroon�s Plantation Economy

    By Piet Konings

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    This book discusses the social and political consequences of the economic and financial crisis that befell African economies since the 1980s, using as case study the plantation economy of the Anglophone region of Cameroon. The focus is thus on recent efforts to liberalize and privatize an agro-industrial enterprise where overseas capital and its domestic partners have converged, the consequent modes of production and labour, and the alternatives proposed and resistance generated. The study details how the unprecedented crisis caused great commotion in the region, and presented a serious challenge to existing theories on plantation production and capital accumulation. The crisis resulted in the introduction of a number of neoliberal economic reforms, including the withdrawal of state intervention and the restructuring, liquidation and privatisation of the major agro-industrial enterprises. These reforms in turn had severe consequences for several civil-society groups and their organisations that had a direct stake in the regional plantation economy, notably the regional elite, chiefs, plantation workers and contract farmers. On the basis of extensive research in the Anglophone Cameroon region, Konings shows that these civil-society groups have never resigned themselves to their fate but have been actively involved in a variety of formal and informal modes of resistance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLangaa RPCIG
    Release dateDec 1, 2010
    ISBN9789956579266
    Crisis and Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: Civil Society and Agro-Industry in Anglophone Cameroon�s Plantation Economy
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    Piet Konings

    Piet Konings is a sociologist of development and a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden (The Netherlands). He has published widely on socio-political and economic developments in Ghana and Cameroon. His most recent books include Trajectoires de Libération en Afrique Contemporaine (Karthala, 2000), Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon (Brill, 2003), and Crisis and Creativity: Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighbourhood (Brill, 2006).

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