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This text examines the socio-cultural and especially moral repercussions of embedding neoliberalism in Africa, using the case of Uganda.
List of contents
Introduction : Rethinking moral economy: capitalism and the question of morals / 1. : Market-society-making: neoliberalism as a cultural programme / 2. Introducing Uganda: conflict, change and the neoliberal reforms / 3. The making of a neoliberal moral economy: tracing the moral contours of the new Uganda / 4. Neoliberalised markets and the intensification of fraud / 5. Neoliberal morals as weapons of the strong - the moral economy of power / 6. Neoliberalised worlds of business - the moral power of money / 7. Exploiting vulnerability: The moral economy of business with the squeezed bottom / 8. Seeing the neoliberal state: public-private partnerships of fraud / 9. The struggle for de-neoliberalisation: cultural resistance, moral turn-arounds, and the politics of moral economy / 10. Conclusion: Locking-in the moral order of capitalism: market society forever?
About the author
Jörg Wiegratz is Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds. He researches the political economy and moral economy of neoliberalism in Africa and elsewhere, with a focus on the topics of moral restructuring, economic fraud, anti-fraud measures and populism. In the past he has researched global value chains and industrial development, predominantly with an empirical focus on Uganda. He previously worked as a researcher and consultant in Uganda for the UN Industrial Development Organization, the Government of Uganda's Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation, and a Visiting Scholar at the Economic Policy Research Centre, Kampala. He is a member of the editorial working group of Review of African Political Economy; here, he coordinates the project on Economic trickery, fraud and crime in Africa. He is the author of Uganda's Human Resource Challenge: Training, Business Culture and Economic Development (Fountain Publishers, 2009) and co-editor of Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud (Routledge, 2016, with David Whyte) and Neoliberal Uganda (Zed, 2017, with Giuliano Martiniello and Elisa Greco). He has also published articles in New Political Economy and Review of African Political Economy.
Summary
This text examines the socio-cultural and especially moral repercussions of embedding neoliberalism in Africa, using the case of Uganda.
