The Labour Movement in Zimbabwe 1980-2012
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions is at the centre of emancipatory, grassroots activism in Zimbabwe, providing potential for a democratic, anti-neoliberal future.
A Critical Perspective on Volunteer Tourism and Development
Though volunteer tourism has come under increasing scrutiny from critical scholarship, it has the potential for positive and enduring change in regards to development and poverty.
Labour Movements: A Prominent Role in Struggles Against Globalisation?
Neoliberal globalisation creates opportunities for new forms of organisation and resistance, even as it attempts to undermine existing strategies.
Militancy in the Niger Delta: Petro-Capitalism and the Politics of Youth
Research must consider the links between militants and the oil complex in order to assess the potential for further rounds of violence.
Is Human Progress Inevitable?
Modernisation, development and globalisation are not inevitable and ‘hard work’ to ensure neoliberal globalisation in the global south has not created progress.
Abjection and Resistance on the Zambian Copperbelt
By concentrating on the struggles of Copperbelt mineworkers, their resistance to neoliberal domination in Zambia be understood and reaffirmed.
The Validity of a Postcolonial Account of World Politics
A Purist’s perspective is necessary in negating the worst excesses of Idealism, as is the latter necessary in doing so for the former. Such paradigmatic vibrancy can only be a good thing for Postcolonialism and the self-critical arena that this has created means that the approach will go from strength to strength in its project of postcolonialising the dominant mode of Orientalism.
