Brief analysis on government's roles in economic restructuring of resource-based cities

Alongside the many structural and political processes generated by the #FeesMustFall student protests between 2015 and 2016 were narratives and discourses about revitalising the transformation of universities throughout South Africa. It was the very notion of “transformation,” diluted by neo-liberal macro-economic restructuring from the late 1990s, that students jettisoned as they increasingly embraced the importance of “decolonisation.” By exploring some of the key debates and interventions driven by the #FeesMustFall movement, we consider how earlier trajectories of feminist knowledge-making resonate with these. The article also reflects on how aspects of intellectual activism within the student protests can deepen and push back the frontiers of contemporary South African academic feminism. In so doing, it explores how radical knowledge-making at, and about, universities, has contributed to radical political thought in South Africa.

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2008888888888888 (Embracing Communication: Chinaas Post-2008 Economic Restructuring and Labor)

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2472058 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Yu Hong ◽

Wang Wei

Keyword(s):

Economic Restructuring

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Reconciling Economic Restructuring and Democratic Politics: Challenge to Asian Emerging Economies

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3578431 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

George Abonyi

Keyword(s):

Emerging Economies ◽

Economic Restructuring ◽

Democratic Politics

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The Pittsburgh Transition: Not Quite So Simple

Economic Development Quarterly ◽

10.1177/08912424211024855 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089124242110248

Author(s):

Sabina Deitrick ◽

Christopher Briem

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Economic Restructuring ◽

Development Strategies ◽

The State ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Advanced Technology ◽

Significant Other ◽

Development Policies ◽

Economic Trends ◽

Economic Development Strategies

Benjamin Armstrong’s article compares state economic development policies in Pittsburgh and Cleveland in the 1980s, the period of major regional economic restructuring. Armstrong argues that what separated Pittsburgh from Cleveland in the ensuring years was the state-mandated inclusion of the city’s universities as major economic development decision makers and the role that advanced technology played in Pittsburgh’s recovery—much more prominent than in Cleveland’s. The authors agree that the 1980s expanded stakeholders in the region’s traditional economic development strategies, but not to the extent that Armstrong argues, and that significant other factors have affected the two regions in recent decades. The authors also find that the divergence in economic trends between the two regions is not a strong as Armstrong suggests.

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