What are the fundamental issues, processes, agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the...

Mapping ecologies of resistance / Leah Temper & Joan Martinez-Alier -- Red-green alliance-building against Durban's port-petrochemical complex expansion / Patrick Bond -- Indigenous by association : legitimation and grassroots engagements with multinational mining in New Caledonia / Leah...