商品簡介
Konings (African Studies Center in Leiden, the Netherlands) presents reworked versions of 11 articles written over the past couple decades on the impact of neoliberalism on Cameroon and the forms of resistance to neoliberal economic and political reforms exhibited both by Cameroon's authoritarian and neo-patrimonial state and by civil society groups. Topics include forms of elite-state resistance, the role of the opposition Social Democratic Front, the effects of privatization and the push for globally open markets on relations between the state and private capital accumulation, secessionist movements in Anglophone Cameroon in relation to the neoliberal project, the border conflict between Cameroon and Nigeria over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula, the impact of the growing economic engagement of China, the economic motivations behind the student strikes at the U. of Yaounde in the early 1990s, and the impact of neoliberal economic and political reforms on the political power and bargaining strength of organized labor. Distributed in North America by the African Books Collective. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
