Description: This book proposes an original interpretation of neoliberalism in Africa. Instead of seeing neoliberal reforms as inherently destructive of the post-colonial state, the authors, who include some of Africa's best-known social scientists, focus on the resilience and adaptability of African state structures, economic systems and survival mechanisms.
Brief description: Béatrice Hibou is CNRS Senior Research Fellow at the Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris, France. She holds a PhD in political economy from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, 1995) and has been accredited to supervise PhD research from Sciences Po, Paris since 2005. She is the author of many books on her comparative research in political economy, from a Weberian perspective, on the political significance of economic reform, on state trajectories, and on the exercise of domination in Africa and Europe. Since 2015, she is co-director of the Centre de Recherche, Économie, Société, et Culture (CRESC), Mohamed VI Polytechnic, University of Rabat (Morocco).