IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/aaechp/978-3-030-89824-3_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Neoliberalisation and Regulatory Restructuring in South Africa’s Commercial Agriculture

In: Capital Penetration and the Peasantry in Southern and Eastern Africa

Author

Listed:
  • Gilton Klerck

    (Rhodes University)

Abstract

The notion of ‘neoliberalism’ has been widely deployed to describe the resurgence of market-orientated institutional shifts and policy realignments across the world economy since the 1980s. Following the initial analysis of these trends, much attention has been devoted to their conceptualisation. While the meaning and tractability of ‘neoliberalism’ continue to be topics of intense debate, recent theoretical work in the field has produced several important insights that have significant implications for empirical research on regulatory restructuring at all spatial scales. Against the monolithic conceptualisations that prevail in popular and academic accounts, the notion of ‘variegated neoliberalisation’ emphasises the uneven, hybrid, and unstable character of neoliberalising forms of regulatory transformation. By substituting an end-state view of neoliberalism with emergent and tendential processes of neoliberalisation, the dramatic changes in South Africa’s agricultural policy and practice that have unfolded since the 1980s may be cast in a new light. In particular, we explore the apparent paradox between extensively liberalised product markets and highly regulated labour markets in post-apartheid commercial agriculture.

Suggested Citation

  • Gilton Klerck, 2022. "Neoliberalisation and Regulatory Restructuring in South Africa’s Commercial Agriculture," Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development, in: Freedom Mazwi & George Tonderai Mudimu & Kirk Helliker (ed.), Capital Penetration and the Peasantry in Southern and Eastern Africa, pages 25-53, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-89824-3_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89824-3_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:aaechp:978-3-030-89824-3_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.