Anti-Globalization Forces, the Politics of Resistance, and Africa

Promises and Perils

Bibliographic Data

ID19005345
AuthorsE Osei Kwadwo Prempeh (Carleton University, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume34
Issue4
Pages580-598
Publication date2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934703259074
OpenAlexW2112845384
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

Globalization, the current restructuring and reshaping of the contemporary global economy, is a powerful transformative process that has acquired hegemonic status as a result of its operative logic and ideological connotation. However, the widening reach and uneven nature of globalization has provoked a counterhegemonic resistance and political counter movements that challenge its exclusionary practices and its silencing of the voices of the people. This article interrogates the grassroots counterhegemonic process of “globalization-from-below,” as captured in the work of Richard Falk, and questions the extent to which this process incorporates the marginalized voices in African civil society

Civil society · Globalization · Grassroots · Hegemony · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Restructuring · Sociology · Transformative learning · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Labor Movements and Unions · Law

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