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necessary pre-conditions for quotidian forms of dissidence. The trade-off in public visibility increases the vulnerability of everyday opposition to having no or little impact and passing by unnoticed. The resistant actor is likely to have limited influence

status should not be traded off for the trivial interests of another being, even one with a higher moral status’. What this interests-based calculus adds to Metz's MR is that it suggests the context where it will be possible to trump human interests for

people’s organisation and the Congress of Trade unions. […] On this body the ANC was the largest organisation and the one representing the biggest section of the nation [It had a paid membership of more than 10 000], had the same vote as the COD which was

interests. It is argued here that all five exercises exhibit democratic strengths and weaknesses, and choosing between them involves trading off democratic values. To this extent the article reveals a landscape of democratic complexity. It welcomes the

manifestation of truth’ in ‘the Cynic mode of being’ (2011: 183). He identified these forms as ‘political parties with a revolutionary function’ and trade unions as well as styles of existence and secret societies (2011: 184). In this context, Foucault

. For Ani, strict consensus will lead to complacency and powerful pressure to conformity; at the same time difficult engagement will be avoided in favour of trade-offs, and critical thinking will be sacrificed on the altar of unity. Further, besides the

of the East India Company. They encouraged Fujian settlers from mainland China to consolidate the Dutch settlement by giving them oxen and tools for farming, taxing the proceeds and granting trading licenses. The Aboriginals resisted but were defeated

ideology is characterised by seven elements: a) Confidence in the market as an efficient mechanism for the allocation of scarce resources; b) Belief in the desirability of global free trade and free circulation of capital; c) Willingness to limit the

slave trade between 1400 and 1900 a.d. As argued in Nunn (2007) , colonialism imposed on many African countries a set of extractive institutions that pushed African economies towards inefficient and unproductive activities. This low productivity

free trade.’ Thus, neoliberalism today is at its root a system of political economy that elevates the role of the individual primarily as an economic agent, rather than a public, political one. Moreover, as Harvey (2005: 7) notes, political freedom