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Title:South African Multinational Corporations, NEPAD and Competing Regional Claims on Post-Apartheid Southern Africa
Author:Miller, DarleneISNI
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]
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