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Neoliberal Globalisation and Resistance from Below: Why the Subalterns Resist in Bolivia and not in Ghana book cover

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Neoliberal Globalisation and Resistance from Below Why the Subalterns Resist in Bolivia and not in Ghana

By Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno Copyright 2019
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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As bearers of their own emancipation, the political agency of the subaltern classes is a vexed question, a time-honoured one at that. Why do the subalterns endure injustices without revolting most of the time, but revolt sometimes against some injustices? The euphoria of ’globalisation-from-below’, this book argues, skirts responsibility of addressing this question by presuming a groundswell of... Read more

Acknowledgements



Foreword by David B. Moore



Introduction: Uneven Resistance in the Context of Uneven Capitalist Development



Chapter One: Subalterns, Injustice, and Resistance



Chapter Two: The Social-Historical Approach to Agency: ‘Pessimism of the Intellect and Optimism of the Will’



Chapter Three: Why the Subalterns Resist: the Cosmo-materialism of the Global Anti-Neoliberalism Resistance Movement



Chapter Four: The Rebellious Subalterns in Bolivia: Socio-Historical Dynamics of the Bolivian Model of Anti-neoliberalism



Chapter Five: Subaltern Agency and Resistance in the Social-Historical Context of The Gold Coast



Chapter Six: Neoliberalism and Resistance in Ghana



Chapter Seven: Electoral Democracy and Subaltern Resistance in Ghana



Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Intellectual and Political Implications

Biography

Jasper Abembia Ayelazuno is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Communication, Innovation and Technology, University for Development Studies, Ghana.

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