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Title: | South African Multinational Corporations, NEPAD and Competing Regional Claims on Post-Apartheid Southern Africa |
Author: | Miller, Darlene |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | African Sociological Review (ISSN 1027-4332) |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 176-202 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa South Africa |
Subjects: | development international economic relations economic integration multinational enterprises Development and Technology Economics and Trade Inter-African Relations Economics, Commerce regional development economic development Investments, Foreign New Partnership for Africa's Development |
Abbreviation: | NEPAD=New Partnership for Africa's Development |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24487422 |
Abstract: | This paper analyses the territorial expansion of South African capital into southern Africa in the postapartheid period, and the role of this capital in integrating the southern African region. Critiquing the narrow conceptual framework of regional integration, which focuses on the role of States, the paper foregrounds the role of multinational corporations as agents of regional integration. It first argues that regionalism entails social contestations over how capital accumulation proceeds in the region, both in terms of capital's material practices and its styles of representation. It thus contends that regions are implicated in a 'politics of scale', with different social classes making claims on the postapartheid region. The paper then analyses the characteristics of the new investment flows from South Africa into Africa and southern Africa in particular. The third section discusses the ideological dimensions of spatial claims and boundary making, focusing on the African Renaissance and NEPAD. The conclusion draws out the contradictions between programmative initiatives and the material and representational practices of multinational corporations. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |