Dot Keet

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dkeet [at] iafrica.com

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Dot Keet

Research Associate, Alternative Information & Development Center

Dot Keet is a South African academic and activist involved in many national, African and international networks resisting corporate "free trade" agreements. She is an active member of the national South African Trade Strategy Group (TSG) and the Southern African Peoples Solidarity Network (SAPSN), the key coordinator of the Southern African Social Forum (SASF); as well as the continent-wide Africa Trade Network (ATN); and the international Our World is Not for Sale (OWINFS) network.

Areas of expertise:

Southern African Political Economy; Alternative Regionalisms; Africa, the WTO & International Trade; Africa/EU Relations & Debt

Languages spoken:

English

Selected publications:

Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)

South-South Strategic Alternatives to the Global Economic System and Power Regime

Recent content by Dot Keet

European trade policy and the food crisis in Africa (12 May 2011)

Dot Keet explains how IMF and World Bank policies have brought about the current food crisis in Africa, and why food sovereignty and local production are necessary to secure long term food security.

Emancipatory transformation and alternative development paths within and from regions of the South (3 Nov 2010)

Alternative ‘regional’ South-South alliances and strategies hold out the
most promising possibilities for shifting the global balance of power
and creating living
non-capitalist alternatives

South Africa's official position and role in promoting the WTO (28 Oct 2010)

South Africa is playing a significant role in supporting and extending the power of the World Trade Organisation, a new system of global government. This not only entails South Africa surrendering its own policy-making rights and space, but also means bargaining away the South African peoples’ democratic rights to determine their country’s internal economic, environmental, social and cultural policies.

Alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation (28 Oct 2010)

Alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation are needed that not only change people-to-people and South-South relations and situations, but also South-North relations and inter-actions to the benefit of all of humanity and our common planetary home.

Strengthening Regionalism (28 Oct 2010)

Amongst many other analyses and debates, the more extensive awareness of the active role of the state and of states in the purportedly highly successful 'market economies' in East Asia and South East Asia is bringing discussion of the role of state back into quite mainstream development discourse.

'The crisis' and the crisis of global capitalism (23 Sep 2010)

"The financial crisis" is one facet of the systemic and converging crises of capitalism - a predictable symptom of oligopolistic late capitalism; but what main challenges lie ahead for the Left in South Africa?

Practical and tactical challenges, and strategic perspectives for African engagement with China (23 Sep 2010)

There are many important factors to consider when speaking broadly of China's role in Africa, and one should avoid falling into the trap of simplistic comparisons with historic African-European relations.

The WTO Doha round and EPAs in an era of crisis (23 Sep 2010)

The language contained in agreements being negotiated by the EU through the WTO with their southern counterparts often deliberately diguises real political goals, obscuring the negative economic implications for those countries of the neoliberal agenda.

Implications of EPA/FTAs against developmental regional integration in Africa (22 Sep 2010)

Why the EU's so-called "Economic Partnership Agreements" and free trade policies will have exactly the opposite effect of development on Least Developed Countries' economies.

Alternatives to the Current Global Trade System and Regime (8 Jul 2010)

The challenges facing policy makers, analysts and activists dedicated to formulating environmentally sound, social and economically sound trade policies demand that we redefine the role and purpose of trade altogether.