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Free Markets and Food Riots: The Politics of Global Adjustment
John K. Walton
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Paperback. Describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic 'reform' and 'adjustment'. Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFFA; JPWF; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment".
This book describes and explains the extraordinary wave of popular protest that swept across the so-called Third World and the countries of the former socialist bloc during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, in response to the mounting debt crisis and the austerity measures widely adopted as part of economic "reform" and "adjustment".
- Explores this general proposition in a cross-national study of the austerity protests, or the 'IMF Riots' that have affected so many debtor nations since the mid-1970s
- Argues that modern austerity protests, like the classical "bread riots" in eighteenth-century Europe are political acts ... Read more
- Evaluates how modern food riots are most important for what they reveal about global economic transformation and its social, and political, consequences
- Provides a general framework (drawing on comparative and historical material) and then trace the cycle of uneven development, debt, neo-liberal reform, and protest in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe
- Focusses on the role of women in structural adjustment and protest politics and the features of seemingly anomalous cases which qualify the general argument
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Urban and Social Change
Number of Pages
396
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631182474
SKU
V9780631182474
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About John K. Walton
John Walton holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Reluctant Rebels: Comparative Studies of Revolution and Underdevelopment (1984) and most recently Western Times and Water Wars: State, Culture, and Rebellion in California (1992). David Seddon is Professor of Development Studies at the University of East ... Read more
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