Africa’s Shrinking Sovereignty: Economic Crises, Ecological Damage, Sub-Imperialism and Social Resistances

Authors

  • Trevor Ngwane Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg.
  • Patrick Bond Political economist, professor at the University of the Western Cape School of Government in Cape Town.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54833/issn2764-104X.v1i1p101-120

Keywords:

África do Sul, Soberania, Crise, Subimperialismo, Resistências Sociais

Abstract

The development of South Africa’s contemporary political economy occur- red in the context of a global capitalist order characterized by increasingly unequal political and economic relations between and within countries. Prior to liberation in 1994, many people around the world actively supported the struggle against apartheid. If the apartheid state was defeated, it retained enough strength to limit a radical tran- sition. Since 1994, diminished sovereignty means that the foreign influences of global capitalism amplify local socioeconomic contradictions in a way that is destructive to the vast majority of citizens. This is evident when one considers economic, ecological, geopolitical, and societal considerations.

Author Biographies

Trevor Ngwane, Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg.

Director of the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg. PHD in Sociology at University of Johannesburg and social activist

Patrick Bond, Political economist, professor at the University of the Western Cape School of Government in Cape Town.

A political economist, professor at the University of the Western Cape School of Government in Cape Town. This appointment follows two decades of teaching at Wits University School of Governance in Johannesburg and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society in Durban.

Author of several books, the best known, Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa, 2000, Pluto Press

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