When 'Adjusted' People Rebel: Volume 29: Economic Liberalization and Social revolts in Africa and the Middle East (1980s to the present day)

In the Middle East and Africa, deteriorating living conditions have given rise to a variety of social movements and unrest since the 1970s. Although each of these events and movements had its own logic, they all took place in the context of the implementation of neoliberal economic policies, generally referred to as structural adjustment reforms. Structural adjustments have been the subject of extensive literature, but most existing studies have focused on the logic of international financi...