Kvangraven, Ingrid Harvold orcid.org/0000-0001-8606-1717, Koddenbrock, Kai and Sylla, Ndongo Samba (2020) Financial subordination and uneven financialization in 21st century Africa. Community development journal. pp. 1-22. ISSN 0010-3802
Abstract
The financialization debate has not paid enough attention to the African continent. The continent’s populations and governments have found creative ways of dealing with the capitalist world market and political power relations since decolonization in the late 1950s. However, several forms of structural dependence and subordination persist. We ask in this article how the global process of financialization has unfolded across the continent and what it means for relations of dependence. We understand financialization as the global expansion of financial practices, and, in particular, the financial sector, that followed the end of the Bretton Woods era. We consider to what extent it has occurred at all in the four case study countries of Mauritius, Nigeria, Zambia, and South Africa. The empirical analysis of aggregate country data shows that financialization is, at best, an uneven and patchy process on the continent, not a general structural shift in the way capital accumulation is organized. Rather, where financialization occurred, it appears to have diversified the relations of dependence that states, corporations, and populations have found themselves in.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Oxford University Press and Community Development Journal 2020. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2020 12:40 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 17:02 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsaa047 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/cdj/bsaa047 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:167482 |
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