Against imperial social policy : recasting Mkandawire’s transformative ideas for Africa’s liberation

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dc.contributor.author Phiri, Madalitso Zililo
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-22T07:21:02Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-22T07:21:02Z
dc.date.issued 2023-05
dc.description.abstract Forty years have passed since the implementation of the pernicious neoliberal structural reforms on the African continent in 1981. If 2021 marked a 40-year commemoration of a diabolical neocolonial project such as neoliberalism, then the year 2020 signified another 40-year period of rebirth aborted, as the Lagos Plan of Action of 1980 was undermined in favour of the Berg Report of 1981. These two periodizations delineate African liberation or continued neocolonial oppression, yet also coincide with Thandika Mkandawire’s life’s strivings. How do Mkandawire’s ideas on social policy, inspired by radical African Nationalists, aid in the dismantling of contemporary forms of racialized neoliberal social policy making? Mkandawire’s life straddled two 40-year periods (1940–1980 and 1980–2020) marked by sui generis contributions to African and global social sciences. This paper recasts his scholarly contributions on transformative social policy as a prophetic theoretician of African liberation. Mkandawire’s scholarly corpus provides a programmatic approach to the unmaking of a hierarchical racialized neoliberal global order. en_US
dc.description.department Sociology en_US
dc.description.librarian hj2023 en_US
dc.description.sponsorship The National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), in collaboration with the CODESRIA. en_US
dc.description.uri https://journals.sagepub.com/home/crs en_US
dc.identifier.citation Phiri, M.Z. (2023). Against Imperial Social Policy: Recasting Mkandawire’s Transformative Ideas for Africa’s Liberation. Critical Sociology, 49(3), 437–455. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205221100832. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0896-9205 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1569-1632 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1177/08969205221100832
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/90173
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Sage en_US
dc.rights © The Author(s) 2022. en_US
dc.subject African liberation en_US
dc.subject Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020) en_US
dc.subject Social policy in Africa en_US
dc.subject Pan-Africanism en_US
dc.subject African nationalism en_US
dc.subject Neoliberalism en_US
dc.subject Liberation en_US
dc.subject African development en_US
dc.subject Structural transformation en_US
dc.title Against imperial social policy : recasting Mkandawire’s transformative ideas for Africa’s liberation en_US
dc.type Postprint Article en_US


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