Popular struggles and the search for alternative democracies

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Review of African Political Economy Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/03056244.2022.2085886

Bettina Engels

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Popular struggles in Africa are once again at centre stage in this issue. ROAPE, as stated in our remit, ‘pays particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation, oppression, and to struggles against them, whether driven by global forces or local ones such as class, race, community and gender’. It is impossible to ignore the number and range of ongoing popular struggles that are taking place all over the continent. Protests are comprehensively researched and documented in South Africa, as Martin Bekker and Mondli Hlatshwayo demonstrate in their contributions to this issue; and Olayinka Ajala provides a case study from Nigeria, another country well known for its multitude of social movements and struggles. However, certain countries – particularly ones formerly colonised by England (and thus ‘anglophone’) – tend to be more visible in so-called international reporting and research, whereas others are widely disregarded.

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民众斗争和寻求替代民主

非洲人民的斗争再次成为这一问题的中心议题。正如我们在职权范围内所说，ROAPE“特别关注不平等、剥削、压迫的政治经济，以及与之斗争，无论是由全球力量还是阶级、种族、社区和性别等地方力量驱动的”。不可能忽视整个大陆正在发生的民众斗争的数量和范围。正如Martin Bekker和Mondli Hlatshwayo在对这一问题的贡献中所展示的那样，南非的抗议活动得到了全面的研究和记录；Olayinka Ajala提供了一个来自尼日利亚的案例研究，尼日利亚是另一个以众多社会运动和斗争而闻名的国家。然而，某些国家——尤其是以前被英国殖民的国家（因此是“讲英语的国家”）——往往在所谓的国际报道和研究中更为明显，而其他国家则被广泛忽视。

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Review of African Political Economy Multiple-

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3.00

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7.70%

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期刊介绍： The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends and issues in Africa. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression, whether driven by global forces or local ones (such as class, race, community and gender), and to materialist interpretations of change in Africa. It has sustained a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa.