When ''Adjusted'' People Rebel: Volume 29 - Economic Liberalization Social Revolts in Africa Middle East 1980s

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

List of contents

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.

Summary

This volume examines social movements and unrest in the Middle East and Africa in the context of the implementation of neoliberal economic policies. It investigates the ways in which the upheavals brought about by this new liberalization were actually experienced by people in their daily lives and their shared concepts of fairness and unfairness.

Product details

• Authors: Leyla Bonnecase Dakhli
• Assisted by: Vincent Bonnecase (Editor), Leyla Dakhli (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781009069960
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0906996-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: International Review of Social; International Review of Social History Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Africa / General, Social & cultural history, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, African History