Overview
- Examines the complex character of agrarian neoliberal restructuring in Southern Africa
- Presents empirical evidence from seven Southern African countries
- Embeds the current capital-driven land and agrarian crisis in Southern Africa within a historical perspective
Part of the book series: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development (AAESPD)
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This book examines the impact of neoliberalism on peasant agriculture as a key livelihood strategy in Southern and Eastern Africa, against the background of the current development crisis and the crossroads that Southern and Eastern Africa faces. It systematically analyses how the neoliberal architecture has deepened extroverted production for capitalist accumulation and how this has been to the detriment of the rural labour force and small scale and communal landowners. Apart from examining how neoliberalism has triggered land alienations, the book further argues that such policies have also impacted negatively on food security in a number of ways. The book presents empirical evidence through twelve case studies, emerging from in-depth original fieldwork carried out in seven countries in the Southern and Eastern African region.
This book is a must-read for scholars of economics,sociology, anthropology, history, agrarian studies and political science, as well as practitioners and policy-makers, interested in a better understanding of the impact of the agrarian neoliberal restructuring on the peasantry in Southern Africa.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Land Reform Struggles in a Neoliberal Era
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Agricultural Policies Under Neoliberalism
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Neoliberalism, Extroverted Production and Implications for the Peasantry
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Freedom Mazwi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Rhodes University, South Africa. His research and publications over the last ten years largely focus on the political economy of agrarian transitions in Africa. Mazwi is also a researcher with the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies based in Harare and an Editorial Assistant at the Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. He has published articles in a number of journals, international newspapers, and books.
George Tonderai Mudimu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Public Management (Rural Development and Management) from China Agricultural University in Beijing, China. Mudimu researches land politics, rural politics, livelihoods, agrarian change, and political economy.
Kirk Helliker is a Research Professorand Head of the Unit of Zimbabwean Studies in the Department of Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa. He supervises a large number of PhD students and writes primarily on livelihoods, land struggles, civil society, and democratization in Zimbabwe. Helliker is the author of various important international publications in the field.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Capital Penetration and the Peasantry in Southern and Eastern Africa
Book Subtitle: Neoliberal Restructuring
Editors: Freedom Mazwi, George Tonderai Mudimu, Kirk Helliker
Series Title: Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89824-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89823-6Published: 12 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89826-7Published: 12 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89824-3Published: 12 February 2022
Series ISSN: 2198-7262
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7270
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 237
Topics: African Economics, Heterodox Economics, African Politics, Agricultural Economics, Development Studies, Development Economics