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Title:Beyond Bush: The Future of Popular Movements and U.S. African Policy
Author:Martin, William G.ISNI
Year:2004
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:31
Issue:102
Period:December
Pages:585-597
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
United States
Subjects:action groups
foreign policy
international relations
External links:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305624042000327769
http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=K13H98NLKBPAYTA5XU9M
Abstract:This paper, written just before the US presidential elections in November 2004, looks at the future of individual or movement support in the US for progressive struggles in Africa. The local and national movements in the United States in support of African liberation movements, that ultimately culminated in a powerful anti-corporate movement in support of the end of white minority rule in South Africa, have disappeared. But they have not left a vacuum. In their place has emerged a smattering of local and national organizations calling for debt cancellation, supporting demands for fair trade not free trade, as well as acting in support of African movements for health care and treatment access for persons with HIV/AIDS. Examining these organizations and efforts reveals that 15 years of growing continuity in US policy is matched by the emergence of a new ordering of Africa policy, organizations and struggles - a development for which old nationalist and solidarity frameworks provide little guidance. It is thus not just the marginalization of Africa and its importance to the US State and capital that is in progress - as many economists and activists argue - but a new set of struggles over a post-liberal, post-nationalist liberation movement paradigm. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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