Thesis
Sub-imperialism in crisis? South Africa's government-business-media complex and the geographies of resistance
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This study develops a geographic theory relating to sub-imperial states and resistance to them. The theory is centred on what can be called the government-business-media (GBM) complex, whilst resistance to such states is characterised as counter-imperialist discourses. The theory is applied primarily to South Africa’s (SA’s) interactions with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The aim is to assess the state of SA’s sub-imperialism and evaluate the claim that this sub...
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Funding
+ Partial funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa and the Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust
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van der Merwe, J
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012-07-01
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:7578
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-08
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- Copyright holder:
- van der Merwe, J
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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- Parts of this thesis have been removed due to copyright permissions.
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