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Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the strings of economic and military power too often remained in the hands of the former colonial powers. The more empire appears to have declined and fallen, the more a fantasy of empire has been conjured up as a model for projecting power onto the world stage and legitimised colonialist intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. This aggression, along with the imposition of colonial hierarchies in metropolitan society, has excluded, alienated and even radicalised immigrant populations. Meanwhile, nostalgia for empire has bedevilled relations with Europe and played a large part in explaining Brexit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Empires of the Mind is a uniquely valuable account of the fate of the French and British empires.' 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A radicalized minority turned to jihad and terrorist violence. … the dubious but apparently widespread belief that Brexit would enable Britain to restore its free-trade empire supports Gildea's thesis that the past remains disturbingly present. Highly recommended.' P. C. Kennedy, Choice\u003cbr\u003e'A valuable and shaming book.' Lucy Beckett, The Tablet\u003cbr\u003e'… [Empires of the Mind] can … be profitably read for its extensive comparative account of the British and French empires and their afterlives … highly accessible.' Richard Toye, Journal of British Studies\u003cbr\u003e'A grand narrative that tracks the resurgence of imperial and neo-colonial thinking since the end of the Cold War, which has provoked increased military interventions in the global South, the growing stigmatization of immigrant populations in the West, and the delusions of grandeur that have accompanied our own debates around Brexit.' 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Fantasy, anguish and working through; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738244395351,"sku":"9781107159587","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781107159587.jpg?v=1723811853"},{"product_id":"africa-since-1940-9781108727891","title":"Africa since 1940","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfrica since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press'' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa''s position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the ''development question'' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, thr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Cooper's new edition, with its profound and stimulating exploration of Africa's post-2000 spurts of growth, documents links to the preceding eras of post-colonial development and neoliberal disinvestment. He portrays African citizens, though enmeshed in a network of world affairs, as finding new ways to cope with the continent's possibilities and restraints.' Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh\u003cbr\u003e'Not once, but now twice, Cooper has performed that rare trick of producing a genuinely introductory text for the beginner that also excites seasoned scholars with its interpretive depth and flair. Not content with simply tacking on an 'update' chapter in this second edition, he has also refreshed 'old' chapters and their bibliographies. Maps, figures, and pictures are superb.' John Lonsdale, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e'Cooper's survey is the most thorough, artful, and compelling text available on Africa's late-colonial and post-colonial history. Africa since 1940 combines a masterful historical narrative with an acute and insightful examination of the continent's troubled politics. This new and significantly updated edition is the place to start for any reader wishing to understand the dynamics of Africa's recent past.' David M. Anderson, University of Warwick\u003cbr\u003e'Frederick Cooper's brilliant Africa since 1940 was by far the most popular book in Cambridge's New Approaches to African History series. Now, he presents a revised, much expanded, and original second edition, which not only updates to the present the story he tells, but expands his analysis. This is once again the most perceptive critique of Africa's recent history.' Martin Klein, University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e'When Africa since 1940 was first published, it was a major event: here was a comprehensive introduction to twentieth-century African history that actually proffered new and important arguments linking the colonial and independence eras. It is the only introductory text I've considered using. Thoroughly updated, including a survey of post-2000 developments - covering epoch-shaping events such as the 'Africa rising' narrative, militant Islam, democracy and reform in states like Ethiopia, and much more - Africa since 1940 remains an essential read for teachers, students, and anyone interested in Africa's past and present.' Daniel Magaziner, Yale University, Connecticut\u003cbr\u003e'Africa has often appeared as a monolithic entity, both in popular imaginations, and in academic and policy discourses - a place marked by a history of colonialism, poverty, and violence. In this measured and rigorously researched text on the continent's history from the 1940s to the present, Frederick Cooper argues powerfully against the tendency to read Africa reductively, thereby occluding a rich history of possibilities. All students of the continent - beginners and specialists alike - will profit immensely from this work.' Andreas Eckert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\u003cbr\u003e'Once more, Frederick Cooper helps us rediscover how the urban and rural people of Africa struggled to understand and refashion their way to independence, in spite of tremendous difficulties. A clear and lucid book for all readers.' Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Université Paris Diderot\u003cbr\u003e'Since its publication in 2002, Africa since 1940 has been the most indispensable book in the field of African history. It is a useful textbook for students, and I've enjoyed teaching from it for years. But, more importantly, it set out a coherent, capacious analytic with which to see Africa's past. In this revised and updated edition, there are new themes - religion and gender, among others - that allow a more capacious view. There is an expanded and enriched geographic scope. And there is a whole new chapter about twenty-first-century Africa, allowing Cooper to describe the fate of the 'gatekeeper state' up to recent times. Now more than ever, Cooper's clear-headed, unromantic, synthetic, far-seeing book is essential. It furnishes all of us students of Africa's past with a shared vocabulary to think about history and the future.' Derek R. Peterson, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e'Cooper has an extraordinary ability to synthesize the vast and discordant evidence of change in Africa since 1940. Since 1940, Africa has witnessed periods of enthusiastic expectations for development, and periods of wrenching disappointments. Since 1960, Africa's population has tripled, propelling youth into the forefront of change even as aging leaders refuse to yield power.  Since the 1990s, parts of Africa have experienced high economic growth fueled by demand for raw materials. As Cooper notes, such growth may be part of long-established short-term spurts and does not necessarily translate as development. Cooper reminds us that there are many Africas and many trajectories of change. The new edition has been updated to reflect on these and other changes and it remains the standard for understanding modern African history.' Richard Roberts, Stanford University, California\u003cbr\u003e'This educational book, which discusses important concepts while presenting the major axes of the recent history of continent, is an excellent introduction to the history contemporary of Africa.' Claire Nicolas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction; 2. Workers, peasants, and the challenge to colonial rule; 3. Citizenship, self-government, and development: the possibilities of the post-war moment; 4. Ending empire and imagining the future; Interlude: rhythms of change in the post-war world; 5. Development and disappointment: economic and social change in an unequal world, 1945–2018; 6. White rule, armed struggle, and beyond; 7. The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state; 8. Twenty-first century Africa; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738326511959,"sku":"9781108727891","price":30.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"understanding-modern-nigeria-9781108947633","title":"Understanding Modern Nigeria","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has emerged as Africa''s second largest economy and one of the biggest producers of oil in the world. Despite its economic success, however, there are deep divisions among its two hundred and fifty ethnic groups. Centered around three of the dominant themes of Nigeria''s post-colonial narrative - ethnicity, democracy and governance, this is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the history and events that have shaped these three areas. World-renowned expert in Nigerian history, Toyin Falola shows us how the British laid the foundations of modern Nigeria, with colonialism breading competition for resources and power and the widening cleavages between the Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo ethnic groups that had been forced together under British rule, the choice of federalism as a political system, and the religious and political pluralism that have shaped its institutions and practices. Using an examination of the outcomes of t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Another great book from one of Nigeria's finest scholars. Falola has brought together under one cover answers to all the questions anyone may want to ask about Nigeria but have never been able to frame up in a question. This book will put us in Falola's debt for quite a long time.' 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This is the definitive text for a new generation of scholars.' Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Dean, Veronica Adeleke School of Social Sciences, Babcock University, Nigeria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Introduction: 1. Narrating Postcolonial Nigeria; 2. In Search of Modernity; Part II. Context and History: 3. Colonial Modernity; 4. Political Pluralism; 5. Religious Identities; 6. Federalism and Its Fault-Lines; Part III. Democracy and Governance: 7. Ethnicities and Political Identities; 8. Religion and Geopolitics; 9. Democracy and Its Limits; 10. Governance, Citizenship and the State: Part IV. Development Crises: 11. Corruption; 12. The Political Economy of Oil; 13. Environment and Sustainable Development; 14. Food, Society, and Human Capabilities; 15. Women's Marginalization; 16. Human and Minority Rights; 17. Political Violence; 18. Challenges of Western Education; Part V: Reforms and Revolutions: 19. 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Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of French and British decolonisation in the 1960s, the strings of economic and military power too often remained in the hands of the former colonial powers. The more empire appears to have declined and fallen, the more a fantasy of empire has been conjured up as a model for projecting power onto the world stage and legitimised colonialist intervention in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. This aggression, along with the imposition of colonial hierarchies in metropolitan society, has excluded, alienated and even radicalised immigrant populations. Meanwhile, nostalgia for empire has bedevilled relations with Europe and played a large part in explaining Brexit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Empires of the Mind is a uniquely valuable account of the fate of the French and British empires.' 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Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy\u003cbr\u003e'The past never remains in the past, Robert Gildea skilfully reminds us as he recounts the brutal histories of both British and French colonial and neo-colonial ventures. This is a book that insists on the connections between what happens\/ed 'out there' and what happens\/ed 'in here' and helps us to think through that complex and dangerous entanglement, which continues to inform our contemporary politics today.' Catherine Hall, author of Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830–1867\u003cbr\u003e'Gildea uses a comparative approach to examine the legacy of empire in France and Britain … both countries desperately hoped to preserve their empires, fiercely resisted decolonization, and frequently intervened to keep former colonies as dependencies. … In France, the long shadow of the Algerian conflict, racism, and an emphasis on secular republican values led to a reassertion of colonial rule in the banlieues. Despite Britain's avowed multiculturalism, its formerly colonized subjects faced segregation, exclusion, and violence at the hands of former colonizers. Alienated from both their adopted nation and their country of origin and enraged by the US's neo-imperialist 'war on terror', many in Europe's immigrant community embraced Islam. A radicalized minority turned to jihad and terrorist violence. … the dubious but apparently widespread belief that Brexit would enable Britain to restore its free-trade empire supports Gildea's thesis that the past remains disturbingly present. Highly recommended.' P. C. Kennedy, Choice\u003cbr\u003e'A valuable and shaming book.' Lucy Beckett, The Tablet\u003cbr\u003e'… [Empires of the Mind] can … be profitably read for its extensive comparative account of the British and French empires and their afterlives … highly accessible.' Richard Toye, Journal of British Studies\u003cbr\u003e'A grand narrative that tracks the resurgence of imperial and neo-colonial thinking since the end of the Cold War, which has provoked increased military interventions in the global South, the growing stigmatization of immigrant populations in the West, and the delusions of grandeur that have accompanied our own debates around Brexit.' Sudhir Hazareesingh, Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e'… a stimulating and inspiring read …' Patricia Lorcin, Journal of Modern History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Empires constructed and contested; 2. Empires in crisis: two world wars; 3. The imperialism of decolonisation; 4. Neo-colonialism, new global empire; 5. Colonising in reverse and colonialist backlash; 6. Europe: in or out?; 7. Islamism and the retreat to monocultural nationalism; 8. Hubris and nemesis: Iraq, the colonial fracture and global economic crisis; 9. The empire strikes back; 10. Fantasy, anguish and working through; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738564866391,"sku":"9781316612330","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781316612330.jpg?v=1720049484"},{"product_id":"the-psychiatric-writings-from-alienation-and-freedom-9781350125919","title":"The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlates  Illustrations  Frantz Fanon: Works Cited    General Introduction, \u003ci\u003eby Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young  \u003c\/i\u003e   Fanon: A Revolutionary Psychiatrist, \u003ci\u003eby Jean Khalfa \u003c\/i\u003e 1. Mental alterations, character modifications, psychic disorders and intellectual deficit in spinocerebellar heredodegeneration: A case of Friedreich’s ataxia with delusions of possession  2. Letter to Maurice Despinoy  3. Trait d’Union  4. 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The text is penned in clear, fluid prose, and the volume includes relevant photographs and other illustrations. The endnote references, index, full bibliography and the list of sources used are very helpful.  This study will be respected and used for many years to come, and will prove of immense interest to everyone who takes an interest in Welsh history and politics during a highly formative period in the nation's development. -- J. 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It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North America could be perceived.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDropping the usual Anglocentric description of North America''s fate, Taylor brilliantly conveys the far more vivid and startling story of the competing interests--Spanish, French, English, Native, Russian--that over the centuries shaped and reshaped both the continent and its ''suburbs'' in the Caribbean and the Pacific.  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The book offers a balanced understanding of the diverse peoples and forces that converged on this continent and influenced the course of American history.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Crammed full of fascinating material uncovered by historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists in the past half-century.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Encounters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Natives, 13,000 B.C.-A.D. 1492\u003cbr\u003e2. Colonizers, 1400-1800\u003cbr\u003e3. New Spain, 1500-1600\u003cbr\u003e4. The Spanish Frontier, 1530-1700\u003cbr\u003e5. Canada and Iroquoia, 1500-1660\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Encounters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Virginia, 1570-1650\u003cbr\u003e7. Chesapeake Colonies, 1650-1750\u003cbr\u003e8. New England, 1600-1700\u003cbr\u003e9. Puritans and Indians, 1600-1700\u003cbr\u003e10. The West Indies, 1600-1700\u003cbr\u003e11. Carolina, 1670-1760\u003cbr\u003e12. Middle Colonies, 1600-1700\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Empires\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Revolutions, 1685-1730\u003cbr\u003e14. The Atlantic, 1700-80\u003cbr\u003e15. Awakenings, 1700-75\u003cbr\u003e16. French America, 1650-1750\u003cbr\u003e17. The Great Plains, 1680-1800\u003cbr\u003e18. Imperial Wars and Crisis, 1739-75\u003cbr\u003e19. The Pacific, 1760-1820\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864185844055,"sku":"9780142002100","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780142002100.jpg?v=1722270797"},{"product_id":"the-frontline-9780674268838","title":"The Frontline","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Frontline\u003c\/i\u003e collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Gates of Europe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChernobyl\u003c\/i\u003e. 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He deploys evidence from a dazzling range of sources, particularly but not exclusively from imaginative readings of pivotal court cases… \u003ci\u003eThe Two Faces of American Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e…establishes Rana as a serious student of American democracy, and all readers of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e should wrestle with his brilliant and passionate critique of ‘settler empire.’ -- James T. 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Presser * Reviews in American History *\u003cbr\u003e[This] is a significant contribution to constitutional scholarship. One of the virtues of \u003ci\u003eThe Two Faces of American Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is Rana’s willingness to take intellectual risks… While Rana is not the first legal scholar to examine the link between republican freedom and imperial expansion in American constitutional history, he is the first to do so through the lens of settler colonial theory… By applying this theoretical framework, Rana offers a provocative and original narrative of how early American ideas of freedom and imperialism were interdependent, and together animated what was once a formative ideology underpinning American constitutional governance… \u003ci\u003eThe Two Faces of American Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant theoretical accomplishment. 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To demonstrate how ideas inform and are informed by our understandings, practices, and institutions in a dynamic manner across a wide ideological and historical spectrum is quite another… The challenge Rana sets forth—politically, conceptually and methodologically—is daunting in that it captures the kind of urgency, creativity and diligence that every intellectual should aspire for. -- Daniel Kato * Constellations *\u003cbr\u003eRana’s interpretation of the American past helps make sense of the Revolution’s democratic potential, and also the problems facing American democracy today. -- Johann Neem * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *\u003cbr\u003e[A] provocative, revisionist tale that finds the key to apparently contradictory strains in American political culture, political thought, and notions of citizenship in our own dual past as settler and colonizer… [It] seems clear that Rana’s re-telling of the American story is one that will be debated and should be reckoned with, both for its bold sidelong glance at familiar history—especially the manner in which it outlines the case for how and why we moved almost immediately from colony to colonizer—and for its potential implications for the present political moment. Scholars of immigration history and policy, American foreign policy, and American political thought will all find arguments worthy of consideration and deserving of their attention, along with fresh perspectives on what might ordinarily be stale terrain. -- Stephen Pimpare * Law \u0026amp; Politics Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e[An] ambitious and thoughtful book… \u003ci\u003eThe Two Faces of American Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e [is] a challenging and often compelling book. 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If this were \u003ci\u003eTwo Faces\u003c\/i\u003e’ only contribution, it would be quite a worthy book, but in subsequent chapters, Rana extends his analysis through history, tracing the evolution of settlerism in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the Civil War, and between Reconstruction and the turn of the twentieth century… In \u003ci\u003eTwo Faces\u003c\/i\u003e, Rana uses the concept of settler colonialism to illuminate the American experience in an unassailably effective and innovative manner… \u003ci\u003eTwo Faces\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling work because it expands the compass of inquiry, opening the way to comparative approaches that were previously closed off by scholarly commitments to American exceptionalism. -- Joshua Simon * Settler Colonial Studies *\u003cbr\u003eRana makes a compelling case for a populist account of self-rule at the heart of the U.S. political tradition. -- M. G. 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Read the book, ask yourself these questions, and then organise to answer them – our liberation depends on it.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- ‘Red Pepper’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A book of hope and purpose … an important contribution to the Palestinian fight for self-determination’\u003c\/p\u003e -- ‘Bella Caledonia’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Part One: Unsettling Indigeneity\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Cowboys to Indians: Zionism’s Opportunistic Discourse\u003cbr\u003e 2. On this Land: Indigenous Struggles from Turtle Island to Palestine \u003cbr\u003e Part Two: Overcoming State-Sanctioned Settler Supremacy\u003cbr\u003e 3. Déjà Vu: The Apartheid Analogy\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lessons Learned: Looking Forward\u003cbr\u003e Part Three: We Teach Life, Sir\u003cbr\u003e 5. Social and Political Liberation\u003cbr\u003e 6. 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I hope this book can be a catalyst that will prompt governments and civil society organizations and institutions to pursue climate justice and achieve energy democracy in North Africa.’\u003c\/p\u003e -- Houcine Rhili, Development specialist, Tunisia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'For anyone committed to putting the Just into Just Transition this is a vital intervention that connects the past to the present and challenges us not only to reimagine the future, but to stand with those on the frontlines fighting for it.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Asad Rehman, War on Want, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The inevitable consequences of climate change caused by extractivism will mostly affect vulnerable communities ... 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