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Affiche du document These Potatoes Look Like Humans — These Potatoes Look Like Humans
Mbuso Nkosi
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A profound interrogation of the ontological/spiritual meaning of land and home in the context of the historical dispossession of the indigenous population. These Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi criticises the historical framing of this debate within narrow materialist and legalistic arguments. His assertion is that, for most Black South Africans, the meaning of land cannot be separated from one’s spiritual and ancestral connection to it, and this results in him seeing the dispossession of land in South Africa with a perspective not yet explored. Nkosi takes as his starting point the historic 1959 potato boycott in South Africa, which came about as a result of startling rumours that potatoes dug out of the soil from the farms in the Bethal district of Mpumalanga were in fact human heads. Journalists such as Ruth First and Henry Nxumalo went to Bethal to uncover these stories and revealed horrific accounts of abuse and routine killings of farmworkers by white Afrikaners. The workers were disenfranchised Black people who were forced to work on these farms for alleged ‘crimes’ against National Party state laws, such as the failure to carry passbooks. In reading this violence from the perspectives of both the Black worker and the white farmer, Nkosi deploys the device of the eye to look at his research subjects and make sense of how the past informs the present. His argument is that the violence against Black farmworkers was not only on the exploitation of cheap labour, but also an anxiety white farmers felt about their settler-colonial appropriation of land. This anxiety, Nkosi argues, is pervasive in current heated public debates on the land question and calls for ‘land expropriation without compensation’. Furthermore, the dispossession of Black people from their land cannot be overcome until there is a recognition of the dead and restless spirits of the land, and a spiritual return to home for Black people’s ancestors. Until such time, the cycles of violence will persist. This book will be of interest to academics and scholars working in the area of land and workers’ struggles but also to the general reader who wants to gain a deeper understanding of redress and social justice on multiple levels. Prologue: Emazambaneni: the land of terror Chapter 1 The spectre of the human potato Chapter 2 Whose eyes are looking at history? Chapter 3 Bethal, the House of God Chapter 4 Violence: the white farmers’ fears erupt Chapter 5 These eyes are looking for a home Chapter 6 Bethal today Chapter 7 Our eschatological future Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

These Potatoes Look Like Humans
Mbuso Nkosi
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188 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h21min.
A profound interrogation of the ontological/spiritual meaning of land and home in the context of the historical dispossession of the indigenous population. These Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection between land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. In this ground-breaking book, Mbuso Nkosi criticises the historical framing of this debate within narrow materialist and legalistic arguments. His assertion is that, for most Black South Africans, the meaning of land cannot be separated from one’s spiritual and ancestral connection to it, and this results in him seeing the dispossession of land in South Africa with a perspective not yet explored. Nkosi takes as his starting point the historic 1959 potato boycott in South Africa, which came about as a result of startling rumours that potatoes dug out of the soil from the farms in the Bethal district of Mpumalanga were in fact human heads. Journalists such as Ruth First and Henry Nxumalo went to Bethal to uncover these stories and revealed horrific accounts of abuse and routine killings of farmworkers by white Afrikaners. The workers were disenfranchised Black people who were forced to work on these farms for alleged ‘crimes’ against National Party state laws, such as the failure to carry passbooks. In reading this violence from the perspectives of both the Black worker and the white farmer, Nkosi deploys the device of the eye to look at his research subjects and make sense of how the past informs the present. His argument is that the violence against Black farmworkers was not only on the exploitation of cheap labour, but also an anxiety white farmers felt about their settler-colonial appropriation of land. This anxiety, Nkosi argues, is pervasive in current heated public debates on the land question and calls for ‘land expropriation without compensation’. Furthermore, the dispossession of Black people from their land cannot be overcome until there is a recognition of the dead and restless spirits of the land, and a spiritual return to home for Black people’s ancestors. Until such time, the cycles of violence will persist. This book will be of interest to academics and scholars working in the area of land and workers’ struggles but also to the general reader who wants to gain a deeper understanding of redress and social justice on multiple levels. Prologue: Emazambaneni: the land of terror Chapter 1 The spectre of the human potato Chapter 2 Whose eyes are looking at history? Chapter 3 Bethal, the House of God Chapter 4 Violence: the white farmers’ fears erupt Chapter 5 These eyes are looking for a home Chapter 6 Bethal today Chapter 7 Our eschatological future Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Affiche du document Introduction to Reading from the South — Introduction to Reading from the South
Charne Lavery
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120 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h30min.
This book covers concepts and methods from the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, a leading South African scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.This book draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South’s leading scholars of African print cultures and the oceanic humanities. Isabel Hofmeyr’s scholarship spans more than four decades, and its sustained and long-term influence on her discipline and beyond is formidable. While much of the history of print cultures has been written primarily from the North, Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the leading thinkers producing new knowledge in this area from Africa, the Indian Ocean world and the global South. Her major contribution encompasses the history of the book as well as shorter textual forms and abridged iterations of canonical works such as John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. She has done pioneering research on the ways in which such printed matter moves across the globe, focusing on intra-African trajectories and circulations as well as movements across land and sea, port and shore. The essays gathered here are written in a blend of intellectual and personal modes, and mostly by scholars of Indian and African descent. Via their engagement with Hofmeyr’s path-breaking work, the essays in turn elaborate and contribute to studies of print culture as well as critical oceanic studies, consolidating their findings from the point of view of global South historical contexts and textual practices.List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Southern Lodestar: Isabel Hofmeyr’s Life and Work – Charne Lavery Part I High, Low and In-between Chapter 1 Transformations – Khwezi Mkhize Chapter 2 African Popular Literatures Rising – James Ogude Chapter 3 Fluidity and Its Methodological Openings: Mobility and Discourse on the Eve of Colonialism – Carolyn Hamilton Chapter 4 Oral Genres and Home-Grown Print Culture – Karin Barber Part II Portable Methods Chapter 5 Overcomers: A Historical Sketch – Ranka Primorac Chapter 6 Hemispheric Limits: Rethinking the Uses of Diaspora from South Africa – Christopher EW Ouma Chapter 7 What’s the Rush? Slow Reading, Summary and A Brief History of Seven Killings – Madhumita Lahiri Chapter 8 Seeing Waters Afresh: Working with Isabel Hofmeyr – Lakshmi Subramanian Part III Oceanic Turns Chapter 9 A Turn to the Indian Ocean – Sunil Amrith Chapter 10 ‘The Sea’s Watery Volume’: More-than-Book Ontologies and the Making of Empire History – Antoinette Burton Chapter 11 Amphibious Form: Southern Print Cultures on Indian Ocean Shores – Meg Samuelson Chapter 12 Wood and Water: Resonances from the Indian Ocean – Rimli Bhattacharya Part IV Closing Reflections Chapter 13 Travel Disruptions: Irritability and Canonisation – Danai S Mupotsa and Pumla Dineo Gqola Proximate – Gabeba Baderoon Contributors Index

Introduction to Reading from the South
Charne Lavery
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120 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h30min.
This book covers concepts and methods from the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, a leading South African scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.This book draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South’s leading scholars of African print cultures and the oceanic humanities. Isabel Hofmeyr’s scholarship spans more than four decades, and its sustained and long-term influence on her discipline and beyond is formidable. While much of the history of print cultures has been written primarily from the North, Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the leading thinkers producing new knowledge in this area from Africa, the Indian Ocean world and the global South. Her major contribution encompasses the history of the book as well as shorter textual forms and abridged iterations of canonical works such as John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. She has done pioneering research on the ways in which such printed matter moves across the globe, focusing on intra-African trajectories and circulations as well as movements across land and sea, port and shore. The essays gathered here are written in a blend of intellectual and personal modes, and mostly by scholars of Indian and African descent. Via their engagement with Hofmeyr’s path-breaking work, the essays in turn elaborate and contribute to studies of print culture as well as critical oceanic studies, consolidating their findings from the point of view of global South historical contexts and textual practices.List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Southern Lodestar: Isabel Hofmeyr’s Life and Work – Charne Lavery Part I High, Low and In-between Chapter 1 Transformations – Khwezi Mkhize Chapter 2 African Popular Literatures Rising – James Ogude Chapter 3 Fluidity and Its Methodological Openings: Mobility and Discourse on the Eve of Colonialism – Carolyn Hamilton Chapter 4 Oral Genres and Home-Grown Print Culture – Karin Barber Part II Portable Methods Chapter 5 Overcomers: A Historical Sketch – Ranka Primorac Chapter 6 Hemispheric Limits: Rethinking the Uses of Diaspora from South Africa – Christopher EW Ouma Chapter 7 What’s the Rush? Slow Reading, Summary and A Brief History of Seven Killings – Madhumita Lahiri Chapter 8 Seeing Waters Afresh: Working with Isabel Hofmeyr – Lakshmi Subramanian Part III Oceanic Turns Chapter 9 A Turn to the Indian Ocean – Sunil Amrith Chapter 10 ‘The Sea’s Watery Volume’: More-than-Book Ontologies and the Making of Empire History – Antoinette Burton Chapter 11 Amphibious Form: Southern Print Cultures on Indian Ocean Shores – Meg Samuelson Chapter 12 Wood and Water: Resonances from the Indian Ocean – Rimli Bhattacharya Part IV Closing Reflections Chapter 13 Travel Disruptions: Irritability and Canonisation – Danai S Mupotsa and Pumla Dineo Gqola Proximate – Gabeba Baderoon Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University — Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University
Amrita Pande
1h48min45
Etudes supérieures
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145 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h49min.
An interdisciplinary study on curriculum transformation, epistemic violence and what justice can look like in South Africa’s spaces of teaching, learning and research.At a time when debates on decolonisation have gained urgency in academic, civic and public spaces, this interdisciplinary collection by authors based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, serves as a valuable archive documenting and reflecting on a turbulent period in South African higher education. It is an important resource for academics looking to grasp debates on decoloniality both in South Africa, and in university and teaching spaces further afield. Calling for concerted and collaborative work towards greater epistemic justice across diverse disciplines, the book puts forward a new vision of the postcolonial university as one that enables excellent teaching and learning, undertaken in a spirit of critical consciousness and reciprocity.Introduction Epistemic Justice and the University of Cape Town: Thinking Across Disciplines – Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya and Amrita Pande Part I: Aesthetics, Politics and Languages Chapter 1 Ukuhamba Ukubona/Travelling to Know: Mobility as Counter-Curriculum Across Africa – Nomusa Makhubu Chapter 2 Publics, Politics, Place and Pedagogy in Urban Studies – Rike Sitas Chapter 3 Imagining Southern Cities: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Space – Shari Daya and Rike Sitas Chapter 4 Invoking Names: Finding Black Women’s Lost Narratives in the Classroom – Athambile Masola Part II: Justice, Curriculum and the Classroom Chapter 5 Decolonising Psychology in Africa: The Curriculum as Weapon – Shose Kessi and Hal Cooper Chapter 6 The Shards Haven’t Settled: Contesting Hierarchies of (Teaching) History – Koni Benson and Kerusha Govender Chapter 7 Heavy-handed Policing: Teaching Law and Practice to LLB Students in South Africa – Jameelah Omar Part III: Contested Histories and Ethical Spaces Chapter 8 African Studies at UCT: An Interview with Lungisile Ntsebeza – Sepideh Azari Chapter 9 The African Gender Institute: A Journey of Place-making – Kealeboga Mase Ramaru Chapter 10 The Ethic of Reconciliation and a New Curriculum – Ari Sitas Afterword – Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya

Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University
Amrita Pande
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Etudes supérieures
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145 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h49min.
An interdisciplinary study on curriculum transformation, epistemic violence and what justice can look like in South Africa’s spaces of teaching, learning and research.At a time when debates on decolonisation have gained urgency in academic, civic and public spaces, this interdisciplinary collection by authors based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, serves as a valuable archive documenting and reflecting on a turbulent period in South African higher education. It is an important resource for academics looking to grasp debates on decoloniality both in South Africa, and in university and teaching spaces further afield. Calling for concerted and collaborative work towards greater epistemic justice across diverse disciplines, the book puts forward a new vision of the postcolonial university as one that enables excellent teaching and learning, undertaken in a spirit of critical consciousness and reciprocity.Introduction Epistemic Justice and the University of Cape Town: Thinking Across Disciplines – Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya and Amrita Pande Part I: Aesthetics, Politics and Languages Chapter 1 Ukuhamba Ukubona/Travelling to Know: Mobility as Counter-Curriculum Across Africa – Nomusa Makhubu Chapter 2 Publics, Politics, Place and Pedagogy in Urban Studies – Rike Sitas Chapter 3 Imagining Southern Cities: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Space – Shari Daya and Rike Sitas Chapter 4 Invoking Names: Finding Black Women’s Lost Narratives in the Classroom – Athambile Masola Part II: Justice, Curriculum and the Classroom Chapter 5 Decolonising Psychology in Africa: The Curriculum as Weapon – Shose Kessi and Hal Cooper Chapter 6 The Shards Haven’t Settled: Contesting Hierarchies of (Teaching) History – Koni Benson and Kerusha Govender Chapter 7 Heavy-handed Policing: Teaching Law and Practice to LLB Students in South Africa – Jameelah Omar Part III: Contested Histories and Ethical Spaces Chapter 8 African Studies at UCT: An Interview with Lungisile Ntsebeza – Sepideh Azari Chapter 9 The African Gender Institute: A Journey of Place-making – Kealeboga Mase Ramaru Chapter 10 The Ethic of Reconciliation and a New Curriculum – Ari Sitas Afterword – Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya

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Affiche du document Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 — Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Asanda-Jonas Benya
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Ecologie
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This edited volume provides an eco-socialist feminist analysis of the current social reproduction debate in South Africa, outlining African and indigenous grassroot alternatives to mainstream liberal feminism.The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women – in particular working-class women – to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women – working class, peasant and indigenous –challenge hegemonic neoliberal feminism through their resistance to ordinary capitalist practices and ecological extractivism. Contributors cover women’s responses in a wide range of contexts: from women leading the defence of Rojava – the Kurdish region of Syria, to approaches to anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, to championing climate justice in mining affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. Their practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered in this collection is a subaltern women’s grassroots resistance focused on advancing and enabling solidarity-based political projects, deepening democracy, building capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction – Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse PART I: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative Resistance Chapter 1 Extractivism and Crises: Rooting Development Alternatives in Emancipatory African Socialist Eco-feminism – Samantha Hargreaves Chapter 2 Jineology and the Pandemic: Rojava’s Alternative Anti-Capitalist-Statist Model – Hawzhin Azeez PART II: Ecology and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 3 Doing ecofeminism in a time of Covid-19: Beyond the limits of liberal feminism – Inge Konik Chapter 4 ‘Our Existence is Resistance’: Women Challenging Mining and the Climate Crisis in a time of Covid-19 – Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock Chapter 5 Women and Food Sovereignty: Tackling Hunger during Covid-19 – Courtney Morgan and Jane Cherry PART III: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 6 Quiet Rebels: Underground Women Miners and Refusal as Resistance – Asanda Benya Chapter 7 Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa – Jane Mbithi-Dikgole Chapter 8 Government’s Covid-19 Fiscal Responses and the Crisis of Social Reproduction – Sonia Phalatse and Busi Sibeko Chapter 9 Nursing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction - Before and During Covid-19 – Christine Bischoff PART IV: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism? Chapter 10 Crises, Socio-Ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory Feminism – Vishwas Satgar Conclusion: Ruth Ntlokotse and Vishwas Satgar Contributors Index

Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19
Asanda-Jonas Benya
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Ecologie
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This edited volume provides an eco-socialist feminist analysis of the current social reproduction debate in South Africa, outlining African and indigenous grassroot alternatives to mainstream liberal feminism.The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women – in particular working-class women – to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women – working class, peasant and indigenous –challenge hegemonic neoliberal feminism through their resistance to ordinary capitalist practices and ecological extractivism. Contributors cover women’s responses in a wide range of contexts: from women leading the defence of Rojava – the Kurdish region of Syria, to approaches to anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, to championing climate justice in mining affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. Their practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered in this collection is a subaltern women’s grassroots resistance focused on advancing and enabling solidarity-based political projects, deepening democracy, building capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction – Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse PART I: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative Resistance Chapter 1 Extractivism and Crises: Rooting Development Alternatives in Emancipatory African Socialist Eco-feminism – Samantha Hargreaves Chapter 2 Jineology and the Pandemic: Rojava’s Alternative Anti-Capitalist-Statist Model – Hawzhin Azeez PART II: Ecology and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 3 Doing ecofeminism in a time of Covid-19: Beyond the limits of liberal feminism – Inge Konik Chapter 4 ‘Our Existence is Resistance’: Women Challenging Mining and the Climate Crisis in a time of Covid-19 – Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn Cock Chapter 5 Women and Food Sovereignty: Tackling Hunger during Covid-19 – Courtney Morgan and Jane Cherry PART III: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women’s Power in South Africa Chapter 6 Quiet Rebels: Underground Women Miners and Refusal as Resistance – Asanda Benya Chapter 7 Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa – Jane Mbithi-Dikgole Chapter 8 Government’s Covid-19 Fiscal Responses and the Crisis of Social Reproduction – Sonia Phalatse and Busi Sibeko Chapter 9 Nursing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction - Before and During Covid-19 – Christine Bischoff PART IV: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism? Chapter 10 Crises, Socio-Ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory Feminism – Vishwas Satgar Conclusion: Ruth Ntlokotse and Vishwas Satgar Contributors Index

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Affiche du document These Oppressions Won't Cease — These Oppressions Won't Cease
Robert Ross
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These Oppressions Won't Cease
Robert Ross
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Affiche du document Remains of the Social — Remains of the Social
Ross Truscott
2h31min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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202 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h31min.
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)Preface Gary Minkley Introduction - Traversing the Social - Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley and Premesh Lalu Chapter 1 - The Mandela Imaginary: Reflections on Post-Reconciliation Libidinal Economy - Derek Hook Chapter 2 - The Return of Empathy: Postapartheid Fellow Feeling - Ross Truscott Chapter 3 - The Ethics of Precarity: Judith Butler’s Reluctant Universalism - Mari Ruti Chapter 4 - Hannah Arendt’s Work of Mourning: The Politics of Loss, ‘the Rise of the Social’ and the Ends of Apartheid - Jaco Barnard-Naudé Chapter 5 - Souvenir - Annemarie Lawless Chapter 6 - Re-Cover: Afrikaans Rock, Apartheid’s Children and the Work of the Cover - Aidan Erasmus Chapter 7 - The Graves of Dimbaza: Temporal Remains - Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick Chapter 8 - The Principle of Insufficiency: Ethics and Community at the Edge of the Social - Maurits van Bever Donker Chapter 9 - The Trojan Horse and the ‘Becoming Technical of the Human’ - Premesh Lalu

Remains of the Social
Ross Truscott
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Sciences humaines et sociales
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202 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h31min.
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)Preface Gary Minkley Introduction - Traversing the Social - Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley and Premesh Lalu Chapter 1 - The Mandela Imaginary: Reflections on Post-Reconciliation Libidinal Economy - Derek Hook Chapter 2 - The Return of Empathy: Postapartheid Fellow Feeling - Ross Truscott Chapter 3 - The Ethics of Precarity: Judith Butler’s Reluctant Universalism - Mari Ruti Chapter 4 - Hannah Arendt’s Work of Mourning: The Politics of Loss, ‘the Rise of the Social’ and the Ends of Apartheid - Jaco Barnard-Naudé Chapter 5 - Souvenir - Annemarie Lawless Chapter 6 - Re-Cover: Afrikaans Rock, Apartheid’s Children and the Work of the Cover - Aidan Erasmus Chapter 7 - The Graves of Dimbaza: Temporal Remains - Gary Minkley and Helena Pohlandt-McCormick Chapter 8 - The Principle of Insufficiency: Ethics and Community at the Edge of the Social - Maurits van Bever Donker Chapter 9 - The Trojan Horse and the ‘Becoming Technical of the Human’ - Premesh Lalu

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Affiche du document State Capture in South Africa — State Capture in South Africa
Mbongiseni Buthelezi
1h54min45
Politique
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153 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h55min.
A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and how it was contested within both civil society and the state itself.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s political discourse in the post-Zuma presidency era. What is state capture and how does it manifest? Is it just another example of a newly independent, failed African state? And is it unique to South Africa? The contributors in this collection try to explain the phenomenon from a variety of viewpoints and disciplines. All hold fast to the belief that the democracy that promised the country so much when apartheid ended has been significantly eroded, resulting in most citizens expressing a loss of hope for the future. Read together, the essays cumulatively show not only how state capture was enabled and who benefitted, but also how and by whom it was scrutinised and exposed in order to hold those in power accountable. The book aims to present a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future. Introduction: Understanding and Explaining State Capture – Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Peter Vale Chapter 1 Elite Formation, Factions and Violence in the Political Economy of Corruption – Karl von Holdt Chapter 2 State Capture, the Racket and Predatory Power – Robyn Foley Chapter 3 The Foundations of Corruption in South Africa – Ryan Brunette Chapter 4 Legal Mobilisation against State Capture – Jonathan Klaaren Chapter 5 How Professionals Enabled State Capture – Cherese Thakur and Devi Pillay Chapter 6 Civil Society in the Face of State Capture: Solidarity and Disharmony – Luke Spiropoulos Chapter 7 Media Capture, the Mirror of State Capture – Reg Rumney Chapter 8 State Capture and the Popular Imagination: Narrowing the Narrative – Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh Chapter 9 Cycles of State Capture: Bringing Profiteers and Enablers to Account – Hennie van Vuuren and Michael Marchant Chapter 10 Old Ways and New Days: An Interview with Barney Pityana – Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Peter Vale Chapter 11 Can Democracy Bind the State? Comparative Thoughts from Brazil, India and South Africa – Patrick Heller Contributors Index

State Capture in South Africa
Mbongiseni Buthelezi
1h54min45
Politique
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A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and how it was contested within both civil society and the state itself.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s political discourse in the post-Zuma presidency era. What is state capture and how does it manifest? Is it just another example of a newly independent, failed African state? And is it unique to South Africa? The contributors in this collection try to explain the phenomenon from a variety of viewpoints and disciplines. All hold fast to the belief that the democracy that promised the country so much when apartheid ended has been significantly eroded, resulting in most citizens expressing a loss of hope for the future. Read together, the essays cumulatively show not only how state capture was enabled and who benefitted, but also how and by whom it was scrutinised and exposed in order to hold those in power accountable. The book aims to present a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future. Introduction: Understanding and Explaining State Capture – Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Peter Vale Chapter 1 Elite Formation, Factions and Violence in the Political Economy of Corruption – Karl von Holdt Chapter 2 State Capture, the Racket and Predatory Power – Robyn Foley Chapter 3 The Foundations of Corruption in South Africa – Ryan Brunette Chapter 4 Legal Mobilisation against State Capture – Jonathan Klaaren Chapter 5 How Professionals Enabled State Capture – Cherese Thakur and Devi Pillay Chapter 6 Civil Society in the Face of State Capture: Solidarity and Disharmony – Luke Spiropoulos Chapter 7 Media Capture, the Mirror of State Capture – Reg Rumney Chapter 8 State Capture and the Popular Imagination: Narrowing the Narrative – Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh Chapter 9 Cycles of State Capture: Bringing Profiteers and Enablers to Account – Hennie van Vuuren and Michael Marchant Chapter 10 Old Ways and New Days: An Interview with Barney Pityana – Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Peter Vale Chapter 11 Can Democracy Bind the State? Comparative Thoughts from Brazil, India and South Africa – Patrick Heller Contributors Index

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Affiche du document The Intrapreneur’s Journey — The Intrapreneur’s Journey
Hugh Molotsi
1h51min45
Création d'entreprise
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149 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h52min.
An essential business guide on how to develop an organisation’s innovation culture and internal entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs), with an emphasis on African innovation cases.The Intrapreneur’s Journey: Empowering Employees to Drive Growth is a must-read for any entrepreneur, innovator, manager or senior executive who wants to successfully compete in today’s fast-changing world. Based on the observation that the most under-utilised assets in most organisations are the ideas in their employees’ heads, the authors offer first-hand experience and in-depth analysis on how intrapreneurship powers some of the world’s leading innovative businesses and other types of organisations. The proposition is simple: established organisations see continuous delivery of innovative products, services and processes when they enable teams of entrepreneurial employees to think and behave like start-ups. This new edition adds up-to-date discussions and references on the theory and practice of intrapreneurship and innovation, making this an ideal book for students, researchers and professionals in the field. It includes informative examples and case studies ranging from large multinational corporations to small and medium-size enterprises in a primarily pan-African, but globally relevant context. Written in an accessible, easy to read style, this book features a series of assessments and tools to help implement the book’s Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model in any organisation. This book will be a leading practical guide on how to establish a culture of innovation.Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model Chapter 1: Time and Freedom Chapter 2: A Dedicated Innovation Team Chapter 3: Design Thinking Chapter 4: Open Collaboration Chapter 5: Lean Experimentation Chapter 6: Align for Yes Chapter 7: Integrated Intrapreneurship Conclusion: Sustaining Success Appendices: A. The Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model (for Introduction) B. Time and Freedom Key Resources (for Chapter 1) C. A Dedicated Innovation Team Key Resources (for Chapter 2) D. Design Thinking Key Resources (for Chapter 3) E. Open Collaboration Key Resources (for Chapter 4) F. Lean Experimentation Key Resources (for Chapter 5) G. Align for Yes Key Resources (for Chapter 6) Dramatis Personae Notes References Authors Index

The Intrapreneur’s Journey
Hugh Molotsi
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Création d'entreprise
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An essential business guide on how to develop an organisation’s innovation culture and internal entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs), with an emphasis on African innovation cases.The Intrapreneur’s Journey: Empowering Employees to Drive Growth is a must-read for any entrepreneur, innovator, manager or senior executive who wants to successfully compete in today’s fast-changing world. Based on the observation that the most under-utilised assets in most organisations are the ideas in their employees’ heads, the authors offer first-hand experience and in-depth analysis on how intrapreneurship powers some of the world’s leading innovative businesses and other types of organisations. The proposition is simple: established organisations see continuous delivery of innovative products, services and processes when they enable teams of entrepreneurial employees to think and behave like start-ups. This new edition adds up-to-date discussions and references on the theory and practice of intrapreneurship and innovation, making this an ideal book for students, researchers and professionals in the field. It includes informative examples and case studies ranging from large multinational corporations to small and medium-size enterprises in a primarily pan-African, but globally relevant context. Written in an accessible, easy to read style, this book features a series of assessments and tools to help implement the book’s Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model in any organisation. This book will be a leading practical guide on how to establish a culture of innovation.Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model Chapter 1: Time and Freedom Chapter 2: A Dedicated Innovation Team Chapter 3: Design Thinking Chapter 4: Open Collaboration Chapter 5: Lean Experimentation Chapter 6: Align for Yes Chapter 7: Integrated Intrapreneurship Conclusion: Sustaining Success Appendices: A. The Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model (for Introduction) B. Time and Freedom Key Resources (for Chapter 1) C. A Dedicated Innovation Team Key Resources (for Chapter 2) D. Design Thinking Key Resources (for Chapter 3) E. Open Collaboration Key Resources (for Chapter 4) F. Lean Experimentation Key Resources (for Chapter 5) G. Align for Yes Key Resources (for Chapter 6) Dramatis Personae Notes References Authors Index

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Affiche du document African Ark — African Ark
Ara Monadjem
2h38min15
Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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African Ark tells the story of how Africa’s mammals have helped shape the continent’s landscapes over time to support an amazing diversity of life.Africa is home to an amazing array of animals, including the world’s most diverse assortment of large mammals. These include the world’s largest terrestrial mammal, the African elephant, alongside a host of hooved mammals such as hippopotamuses, giraffes, rhinoceroses, and zebras. African Ark: Mammals, Landscape and the Ecology of a Continent tells the story of where these mammals have come from and how they have interacted to create the richly varied landscape that makes up Africa as we know it today. It also highlights small mammals, such as rodents and bats, which are often overlooked by both naturalists and zoologists in favour of their larger cousins. African Ark explains the processes through which species and population groups are formed and how these fluctuate over time. It explores the impact of megafauna on the environment and the important roles they play in shaping the landscape. In this way, mammals such as elephants and rhinoceros support countless plant communities and the habitats of many smaller animals. The book brings in a human perspective as well as a conservation angle in its assessment of the interaction of African mammals with the people who live alongside them. African Ark is at once scientifically rigorous and an engaging read for anyone dedicated to the understanding of Africa and its wildlife.List of plates List of tables and figures Acknowledgements Foreword by Dr Duncan MacFadyen Prologue: Mammals and Landscapes – the Evolution of a Continent Chapter 1 A Continent of Plenty Chapter 2 The Species Conundrum Chapter 3 The History of Africa’s Mammals Chapter 4 Islands as Species Factories Chapter 5 Evolution on the African Mainland Chapter 6 Giant Mammals Shaping the Landscape Chapter 7 A Place for Every Species Chapter 8 Fluctuating Populations Chapter 9 The Human Factor Chapter 10 The Sinking Ark? Glossary References Recommended Reading Index

African Ark
Ara Monadjem
2h38min15
Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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African Ark tells the story of how Africa’s mammals have helped shape the continent’s landscapes over time to support an amazing diversity of life.Africa is home to an amazing array of animals, including the world’s most diverse assortment of large mammals. These include the world’s largest terrestrial mammal, the African elephant, alongside a host of hooved mammals such as hippopotamuses, giraffes, rhinoceroses, and zebras. African Ark: Mammals, Landscape and the Ecology of a Continent tells the story of where these mammals have come from and how they have interacted to create the richly varied landscape that makes up Africa as we know it today. It also highlights small mammals, such as rodents and bats, which are often overlooked by both naturalists and zoologists in favour of their larger cousins. African Ark explains the processes through which species and population groups are formed and how these fluctuate over time. It explores the impact of megafauna on the environment and the important roles they play in shaping the landscape. In this way, mammals such as elephants and rhinoceros support countless plant communities and the habitats of many smaller animals. The book brings in a human perspective as well as a conservation angle in its assessment of the interaction of African mammals with the people who live alongside them. African Ark is at once scientifically rigorous and an engaging read for anyone dedicated to the understanding of Africa and its wildlife.List of plates List of tables and figures Acknowledgements Foreword by Dr Duncan MacFadyen Prologue: Mammals and Landscapes – the Evolution of a Continent Chapter 1 A Continent of Plenty Chapter 2 The Species Conundrum Chapter 3 The History of Africa’s Mammals Chapter 4 Islands as Species Factories Chapter 5 Evolution on the African Mainland Chapter 6 Giant Mammals Shaping the Landscape Chapter 7 A Place for Every Species Chapter 8 Fluctuating Populations Chapter 9 The Human Factor Chapter 10 The Sinking Ark? Glossary References Recommended Reading Index

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Affiche du document Visualising China in Southern Africa — Visualising China in Southern Africa
Juliette Leeb-du Toit
3h48min45
Sciences humaines et sociales
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305 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h49min.
Reflects on Chinese presence in African countries through the lens of the visual arts and material culture, analysing forms such as photography, painting, film, political posters and architecture.With China’s rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture, however, is a neglected field. Visualising China in Southern Africa is a ground-breaking volume that addresses this deficit through engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing broader material production that prefigures the current relationship. The essays are wide-ranging in their analysis of ceramics, photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film, performance, postcards, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture. Richly illustrated, the collection includes scholarly chapters, photo essays, interviews, and artists’ personal accounts, organised around four themes: material flows, orientations and transgressions, spatial imaginaries, and biographies. Some of the artists, photographers, filmmakers, curators and collectors in this volume include: Stary Mwaba, Hua Jiming, Anawana Haloba, Gerald Machona, Nobukho Nqaba, Marcus Neustetter, Brett Murray, Diane Victor, William Kentridge, Kristin NG-Yang, Kok Nam, Mark Lewis, the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa, Wu Jing, Henion Han and Shengkai Wu.Introduction Geopolitics by Other Means: Navigating the Chinese Presence in Southern Africa through Art – Ross Anthony, Ruth Simbao & Juliette Leeb-du Toit PART 1 BIOGRAPHY Chapter 1 A Letter to My Cousin in China: Migrancy and Dilemmas of Burial – Ruth Simbao Chapter 2 A Chinese Immigrant Collector and the Story of His Stamp Cover – Binjun Hu Chapter 3 The Chinese Camera Club of South Africa: Landscape and Belonging – Malcolm Corrigall Chapter 4 Abapakati: Chinese Intermediaries and Artisanal Mining on the Zambian Copperbelt Photo Essay – Stary Mwaba & Ruth Simbao Chapter 5 Diary of a Diasporic Chinese Artist in South Africa Artist’s Reflection – Kristin NG-Yang PART 2 CIRCULATION Chapter 6 Traces of Chinese Trade Ceramics in Southern Africa – Esther Esmyol Chapter 7 Hidden Objects at the Johannesburg Art Gallery: Han Dynasty Míngqì – Nicola Kritzinger Chapter 8 Shifting Urbanity and Global China in Conversation: Views from Johannesburg and Lusaka – Mark Lewis & Romain Dittgen Chapter 9 Tech Transfer: Marcus Neustetter’s China in Africa Corpus – Gemma Rodrigues & Marcus Neustetter Chapter 10 Moffat Takadiwa: Reincarnating Chinese Commodity Waste in Zimbabwe – Lifang Zhang PART 3 TRANSGRESSION Chapter 11 Postcard Representations of Indentured Chinese Labourers in South Africa’s Reconstruction, 1904–1910 – T Tu Huynh Chapter 12 Seeing and Being Seen: Visualising China and the Chinese People in South Africa – Philip Harrison, Khangelani Moyo & Yan Yang Chapter 13 Wolf Warrior II: Chinese Film, African Settings and Western Narrative Convergence – Ross Anthony Chapter 14 The Political Sublime: Reading Kok Nam, Mozambican Photographer, 1939–2012 – Rui Assubuji & Patricia Hayes Chapter 15 Understanding William Kentridge from China – Ying Cheng & Shuo Wang Chapter 16 Boiling Frogs: Narratives of Coloniality in South African Art – Juliette Leeb-du Toit List of Figures Acknowledgment Contributors Index

Visualising China in Southern Africa
Juliette Leeb-du Toit
3h48min45
Sciences humaines et sociales
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305 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h49min.
Reflects on Chinese presence in African countries through the lens of the visual arts and material culture, analysing forms such as photography, painting, film, political posters and architecture.With China’s rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture, however, is a neglected field. Visualising China in Southern Africa is a ground-breaking volume that addresses this deficit through engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing broader material production that prefigures the current relationship. The essays are wide-ranging in their analysis of ceramics, photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film, performance, postcards, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture. Richly illustrated, the collection includes scholarly chapters, photo essays, interviews, and artists’ personal accounts, organised around four themes: material flows, orientations and transgressions, spatial imaginaries, and biographies. Some of the artists, photographers, filmmakers, curators and collectors in this volume include: Stary Mwaba, Hua Jiming, Anawana Haloba, Gerald Machona, Nobukho Nqaba, Marcus Neustetter, Brett Murray, Diane Victor, William Kentridge, Kristin NG-Yang, Kok Nam, Mark Lewis, the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa, Wu Jing, Henion Han and Shengkai Wu.Introduction Geopolitics by Other Means: Navigating the Chinese Presence in Southern Africa through Art – Ross Anthony, Ruth Simbao & Juliette Leeb-du Toit PART 1 BIOGRAPHY Chapter 1 A Letter to My Cousin in China: Migrancy and Dilemmas of Burial – Ruth Simbao Chapter 2 A Chinese Immigrant Collector and the Story of His Stamp Cover – Binjun Hu Chapter 3 The Chinese Camera Club of South Africa: Landscape and Belonging – Malcolm Corrigall Chapter 4 Abapakati: Chinese Intermediaries and Artisanal Mining on the Zambian Copperbelt Photo Essay – Stary Mwaba & Ruth Simbao Chapter 5 Diary of a Diasporic Chinese Artist in South Africa Artist’s Reflection – Kristin NG-Yang PART 2 CIRCULATION Chapter 6 Traces of Chinese Trade Ceramics in Southern Africa – Esther Esmyol Chapter 7 Hidden Objects at the Johannesburg Art Gallery: Han Dynasty Míngqì – Nicola Kritzinger Chapter 8 Shifting Urbanity and Global China in Conversation: Views from Johannesburg and Lusaka – Mark Lewis & Romain Dittgen Chapter 9 Tech Transfer: Marcus Neustetter’s China in Africa Corpus – Gemma Rodrigues & Marcus Neustetter Chapter 10 Moffat Takadiwa: Reincarnating Chinese Commodity Waste in Zimbabwe – Lifang Zhang PART 3 TRANSGRESSION Chapter 11 Postcard Representations of Indentured Chinese Labourers in South Africa’s Reconstruction, 1904–1910 – T Tu Huynh Chapter 12 Seeing and Being Seen: Visualising China and the Chinese People in South Africa – Philip Harrison, Khangelani Moyo & Yan Yang Chapter 13 Wolf Warrior II: Chinese Film, African Settings and Western Narrative Convergence – Ross Anthony Chapter 14 The Political Sublime: Reading Kok Nam, Mozambican Photographer, 1939–2012 – Rui Assubuji & Patricia Hayes Chapter 15 Understanding William Kentridge from China – Ying Cheng & Shuo Wang Chapter 16 Boiling Frogs: Narratives of Coloniality in South African Art – Juliette Leeb-du Toit List of Figures Acknowledgment Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Uncovering Memory — Uncovering Memory
Tanja Sakota
2h15min45
Cinéma
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An interdisciplinary work that proposes innovative ways to approach pedagogy using sites of memories for practice-based research, autoethnography and film.Travelling along a timeline of memory, Tanja Sakota takes us on a journey through South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina. Using a camera and short film format, Sakota hosts several workshops in different countries focused on interacting and engaging with remembering through different memory sites. The author sits at the core but the book is an interdisciplinary work shaped around films made by different workshop participants using film to access personal interpretations of space and place. Questions that underpin the uncovering of memories are: How does one use a camera to make the invisible visible? How does one remember events that one hasn’t necessarily experienced? How does one use film to interrogate the past from the future present? As the journey evolves, workshop participants and readers alike enter into a conversation around practice-based research, autoethnography and film.List of images Foreword – Cynthia Kros Acknowledgements Map of Africa and Europe PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH, TEACHING AND LEARNING Chapter 1 Creating a context Chapter 2 Film as a research tool Chapter 3 Accessing memory through the visible and the invisible Chapter 4 Timelines and site-specific research Chapter 5 Working in parallel why the workshop process? PART I WORKING WITH STUDENTS: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Berlin Chapter 6 Decolonising the curriculum Chapter 7 Tropes of time workshop Chapter 8 Towards a future past workshop: a German perspective Chapter 9 Conversation with memory workshop Chapter 10 Memory through site-specific research: a discussion post-practice PART II WORKING WITH PEERS: Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Chapter 11 Personal interpretations of political spaces Chapter 12 The past, relevance and readings Chapter 13 The politics of remembering workshop Chapter 14 Understanding personal, political and cultural memory Chapter 15 Point of view: a discussion post-practice PART III WORKING WITH MYSELF: Poland, Germany, Bosnia/Herzegovina, South Africa Chapter 16 Finding my voice Chapter 17 Autoethnography and remembering through the self Chapter 18 Excavating ghosts: Perpetrators and victims Chapter 19 My film Shattered Reflection Chapter 20 Looking at the reflections: a discussion post-practice MOVING FORWARD Chapter 21 Recognising artistic research as good practice Film credits Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

Uncovering Memory
Tanja Sakota
2h15min45
Cinéma
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181 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h16min.
An interdisciplinary work that proposes innovative ways to approach pedagogy using sites of memories for practice-based research, autoethnography and film.Travelling along a timeline of memory, Tanja Sakota takes us on a journey through South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina. Using a camera and short film format, Sakota hosts several workshops in different countries focused on interacting and engaging with remembering through different memory sites. The author sits at the core but the book is an interdisciplinary work shaped around films made by different workshop participants using film to access personal interpretations of space and place. Questions that underpin the uncovering of memories are: How does one use a camera to make the invisible visible? How does one remember events that one hasn’t necessarily experienced? How does one use film to interrogate the past from the future present? As the journey evolves, workshop participants and readers alike enter into a conversation around practice-based research, autoethnography and film.List of images Foreword – Cynthia Kros Acknowledgements Map of Africa and Europe PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH, TEACHING AND LEARNING Chapter 1 Creating a context Chapter 2 Film as a research tool Chapter 3 Accessing memory through the visible and the invisible Chapter 4 Timelines and site-specific research Chapter 5 Working in parallel why the workshop process? PART I WORKING WITH STUDENTS: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Berlin Chapter 6 Decolonising the curriculum Chapter 7 Tropes of time workshop Chapter 8 Towards a future past workshop: a German perspective Chapter 9 Conversation with memory workshop Chapter 10 Memory through site-specific research: a discussion post-practice PART II WORKING WITH PEERS: Constitution Hill, Johannesburg Chapter 11 Personal interpretations of political spaces Chapter 12 The past, relevance and readings Chapter 13 The politics of remembering workshop Chapter 14 Understanding personal, political and cultural memory Chapter 15 Point of view: a discussion post-practice PART III WORKING WITH MYSELF: Poland, Germany, Bosnia/Herzegovina, South Africa Chapter 16 Finding my voice Chapter 17 Autoethnography and remembering through the self Chapter 18 Excavating ghosts: Perpetrators and victims Chapter 19 My film Shattered Reflection Chapter 20 Looking at the reflections: a discussion post-practice MOVING FORWARD Chapter 21 Recognising artistic research as good practice Film credits Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Convening Black Intimacy — Convening Black Intimacy
Natasha Erlank
3h37min30
Histoire
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290 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h37min.
Convening Black Intimacy demonstrates that the primary affective force in the construction of modern Black intimate life in early twentieth-century South Africa was not the commonly cited influx of migrant workers but rather the spread of Christianity. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African converts adopted and molded ideas derived from colonial encounters with Europe and refashioned them as part of the identity of Black middle-class Christians. They created a new conception of intimate life that shaped ideas about sexuality, gender roles, and morality. While the ways of understanding intimacy that Christianity informed enjoyed broad appeal because they partially aligned with traditional ways, other individuals were drawn to how the new ideas broke with tradition. In either case, Natasha Erlank argues that what Black South Africans regard today as tradition has been unequivocally altered by Christianity. Erlank draws from a wide range of sources, including popular Black literature and the Black press, African church and mission archives, and records of the South African law courts.The book is sure to attract scholars interested in the history of African Christianity, African families, sexuality, and the social history of law.List of Illustrations Some Notes on Terminology Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Convening Christian Publics: Churches, Newspapers, and Customary Courts Chapter 2 Modern Masculinity Chapter 3 Love, Sex, and Consequence Chapter 4 Marriage and Lobola and the Imagining of Black Intimate Life Chapter 5 Weddings and Status, Consumption and Reciprocity Chapter 6 Polygamy, Multiple Conjugality, and Masihlalisane Conclusion: Black Intimacy into the Present Notes Bibliography Index

Convening Black Intimacy
Natasha Erlank
3h37min30
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Convening Black Intimacy demonstrates that the primary affective force in the construction of modern Black intimate life in early twentieth-century South Africa was not the commonly cited influx of migrant workers but rather the spread of Christianity. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, African converts adopted and molded ideas derived from colonial encounters with Europe and refashioned them as part of the identity of Black middle-class Christians. They created a new conception of intimate life that shaped ideas about sexuality, gender roles, and morality. While the ways of understanding intimacy that Christianity informed enjoyed broad appeal because they partially aligned with traditional ways, other individuals were drawn to how the new ideas broke with tradition. In either case, Natasha Erlank argues that what Black South Africans regard today as tradition has been unequivocally altered by Christianity. Erlank draws from a wide range of sources, including popular Black literature and the Black press, African church and mission archives, and records of the South African law courts.The book is sure to attract scholars interested in the history of African Christianity, African families, sexuality, and the social history of law.List of Illustrations Some Notes on Terminology Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Convening Christian Publics: Churches, Newspapers, and Customary Courts Chapter 2 Modern Masculinity Chapter 3 Love, Sex, and Consequence Chapter 4 Marriage and Lobola and the Imagining of Black Intimate Life Chapter 5 Weddings and Status, Consumption and Reciprocity Chapter 6 Polygamy, Multiple Conjugality, and Masihlalisane Conclusion: Black Intimacy into the Present Notes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Gerard Sekoto — Gerard Sekoto
N Chabani Manganyi
1h38min15
Littérature & Beaux Arts
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131 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h38min.
Gerard Sekoto is without doubt one of South Africa’s major painters of the twentieth century. Considered increasingly as one of the earliest South African modernists and social realists, he completed his most memorable work during the early and middle years of the 1940s. When he left for Paris in 1947, he was at the height of his creative powers. He spent forty-five years as an exile in France, and during these often difficult times his talent, dedication, belief in the equality of all people and, most of all, his identity as an African sustained him. Chabani Manganyi’s biography is informed by the discovery, after Sekoto’s death, of a ‘suitcase of treasures’, which contained previously unknown musical compositions, letters and a large quantity of notes, writings and private documents. Photographs and full colour plates of previously unpublished and significant paintings are included.Acknowledgements Foreword Wonder and Joy at Wonderhoek Sophiatown: Buttons, Helmets and Guns Journey into the Unknown Saint-Germain-des-Prés A Death of One’s Own Room 105 Old Man Sekoto End of an Odyssey Postscripts: Responsibility and Solidarity in African Culture Sources Index

Gerard Sekoto
N Chabani Manganyi
1h38min15
Littérature & Beaux Arts
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131 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h38min.
Gerard Sekoto is without doubt one of South Africa’s major painters of the twentieth century. Considered increasingly as one of the earliest South African modernists and social realists, he completed his most memorable work during the early and middle years of the 1940s. When he left for Paris in 1947, he was at the height of his creative powers. He spent forty-five years as an exile in France, and during these often difficult times his talent, dedication, belief in the equality of all people and, most of all, his identity as an African sustained him. Chabani Manganyi’s biography is informed by the discovery, after Sekoto’s death, of a ‘suitcase of treasures’, which contained previously unknown musical compositions, letters and a large quantity of notes, writings and private documents. Photographs and full colour plates of previously unpublished and significant paintings are included.Acknowledgements Foreword Wonder and Joy at Wonderhoek Sophiatown: Buttons, Helmets and Guns Journey into the Unknown Saint-Germain-des-Prés A Death of One’s Own Room 105 Old Man Sekoto End of an Odyssey Postscripts: Responsibility and Solidarity in African Culture Sources Index

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Affiche du document Practical Anatomy — Practical Anatomy
Jules Kieser
5h48min00
Medecine
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464 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 5h48min.
A clear, concise and accessible dissection guide for undergraduate allied health sciences and medical students encountering dissection for the first time.Practical Anatomy is designed to enable novice anatomists to grasp the biological background of the human anatomy while understanding its complexity within the clinical context. As a guide to the dissection of the human cadaver, it provides an account of the biological and systemic foundations of the human body. In keeping with the tradition of its predecessor this revised edition is primarily aimed at undergraduate allied health sciences and medical students who are encountering dissection for the first time and are intimidated by the volume of information to be understood. In addition, some dissections of more complex regions of the anatomy have been integrated into the text for more advanced students. This version has built on the solid foundation of the first edition of Practical Anatomy and Man’s Anatomy, incorporating all the features unique to these texts while updating the methodology and including the latest anatomical terminology as outlined in the Terminologia Anatomica. The text and illustrations have been simplified to provide a clear, concise and accessible dissection guide.Foreword Preface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Regions of the Body Chapter Three: The Pectoral Girdle and Upper Limb Chapter Four: The Thorax Chapter Five: The Abdomen Chapter Six: The Back Chapter Seven: The Pelvic Girdle and Lower Limb Chapter Eight: The Head and Neck Chapter Nine: Central Nervous System

Practical Anatomy
Jules Kieser
5h48min00
Medecine
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A clear, concise and accessible dissection guide for undergraduate allied health sciences and medical students encountering dissection for the first time.Practical Anatomy is designed to enable novice anatomists to grasp the biological background of the human anatomy while understanding its complexity within the clinical context. As a guide to the dissection of the human cadaver, it provides an account of the biological and systemic foundations of the human body. In keeping with the tradition of its predecessor this revised edition is primarily aimed at undergraduate allied health sciences and medical students who are encountering dissection for the first time and are intimidated by the volume of information to be understood. In addition, some dissections of more complex regions of the anatomy have been integrated into the text for more advanced students. This version has built on the solid foundation of the first edition of Practical Anatomy and Man’s Anatomy, incorporating all the features unique to these texts while updating the methodology and including the latest anatomical terminology as outlined in the Terminologia Anatomica. The text and illustrations have been simplified to provide a clear, concise and accessible dissection guide.Foreword Preface Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Regions of the Body Chapter Three: The Pectoral Girdle and Upper Limb Chapter Four: The Thorax Chapter Five: The Abdomen Chapter Six: The Back Chapter Seven: The Pelvic Girdle and Lower Limb Chapter Eight: The Head and Neck Chapter Nine: Central Nervous System

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Affiche du document Corrupted — Corrupted
Jonathan D Jansen
4h01min30
Divers
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322 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h01min.
This book offers new explanations for the state of chronic dysfunction at some South African universities and offers solutions to bringing an elusive stability to higher education.Why do some universities seem to be in a constant state of turmoil and dysfunction? Jonathan Jansen explores the root causes of chronic instability in a sample of South African universities. Through scrutiny of investigatory reports and interviews with more than 100 university managers and government officials, Jansen finds that at the heart of the dysfunction in universities is an intense and sometimes deadly competition for resources especially on campuses located in impoverished communities. It is not the lack of institutional resources but their concentration in a university that draws a mix of corrupt actors from local politicians and taxi operators to members of council and management into a never-ending run on the material (such as money for infrastructure) and symbolic (namely, graduation certificates for sale) assets of these institutions. Jansen argues that the problem won’t be solved through investments in ‘capacity building’ alone because the combination of institutional capacity and institutional integrity contributes to serial instability in universities. Jansen makes an important intervention to understanding the root causes and offers interventions to produce stabilities such as the depoliticisation of university councils and appointing academics of integrity and capacity in the management and leadership of these fragile institutions. This groundbreaking and long overdue study will offer a promising way forward for universities to better serve their communities and the country more broadly.Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Map of South African Universities Chapter 1 A study of chronic dysfunction in universities Chapter 2 Historical roots of dysfunction: Shaping the South African university Chapter 3 Dysfunctionality in universities: A political economy perspective Chapter 4 A personal journey through the political economy of universities Chapter 5: Casting long shadows: How history shapes the politics of universities in South Africa Chapter 6 The university as a concentrated and exploitable resource Chapter 7 The university as a criminal enterprise Chapter 8 The micropolitics of corruption in universities Chapter 9 The twin roots of chronic dysfunctionality in universities Chapter 10 Rethinking and rebuilding dysfunctional South African universities Appendices References Index

Corrupted
Jonathan D Jansen
4h01min30
Divers
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This book offers new explanations for the state of chronic dysfunction at some South African universities and offers solutions to bringing an elusive stability to higher education.Why do some universities seem to be in a constant state of turmoil and dysfunction? Jonathan Jansen explores the root causes of chronic instability in a sample of South African universities. Through scrutiny of investigatory reports and interviews with more than 100 university managers and government officials, Jansen finds that at the heart of the dysfunction in universities is an intense and sometimes deadly competition for resources especially on campuses located in impoverished communities. It is not the lack of institutional resources but their concentration in a university that draws a mix of corrupt actors from local politicians and taxi operators to members of council and management into a never-ending run on the material (such as money for infrastructure) and symbolic (namely, graduation certificates for sale) assets of these institutions. Jansen argues that the problem won’t be solved through investments in ‘capacity building’ alone because the combination of institutional capacity and institutional integrity contributes to serial instability in universities. Jansen makes an important intervention to understanding the root causes and offers interventions to produce stabilities such as the depoliticisation of university councils and appointing academics of integrity and capacity in the management and leadership of these fragile institutions. This groundbreaking and long overdue study will offer a promising way forward for universities to better serve their communities and the country more broadly.Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Map of South African Universities Chapter 1 A study of chronic dysfunction in universities Chapter 2 Historical roots of dysfunction: Shaping the South African university Chapter 3 Dysfunctionality in universities: A political economy perspective Chapter 4 A personal journey through the political economy of universities Chapter 5: Casting long shadows: How history shapes the politics of universities in South Africa Chapter 6 The university as a concentrated and exploitable resource Chapter 7 The university as a criminal enterprise Chapter 8 The micropolitics of corruption in universities Chapter 9 The twin roots of chronic dysfunctionality in universities Chapter 10 Rethinking and rebuilding dysfunctional South African universities Appendices References Index

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Affiche du document My Life and Valley Song — My Life and Valley Song
Fugard Athol
1h19min30
Divers
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106 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h19min.
My Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994. The perspective of each young woman on her country and her people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety, exuberance, warmth and humour. A small Karoo town provides the setting for Valley Song, which explores the theme of youth in search of itself, and provides a lyrical metaphor for the new South Africa in which it was set, and has been termed one of Fugard’s most endearing plays.

My Life and Valley Song
Fugard Athol
1h19min30
Divers
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My Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994. The perspective of each young woman on her country and her people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety, exuberance, warmth and humour. A small Karoo town provides the setting for Valley Song, which explores the theme of youth in search of itself, and provides a lyrical metaphor for the new South Africa in which it was set, and has been termed one of Fugard’s most endearing plays.

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Affiche du document WITS: The 'Open' Years — WITS: The 'Open' Years
Bruce Murray
3h32min15
Histoire
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283 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h32min.
This book looks at the history of Wits University during and after World War II and its defense to maintain its ‘open’ status to admit students of all races.This, the second volume of the history of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) by historian Bruce Murray, has as its central theme the process by which Wits became an ‘open’ university admitting students of all races, the compromises this process entailed, and the defence the University mounted to preserve its ‘open’ status in the face of the challenges posed by the Nationalist Government. The University’s institutional autonomy is highlighted by Yunus Ballim in his preface to the centenary edition of WITS: The ‘Open’ Years. He writes: ‘The emerging posture of a university willing to rise in defence of academic freedom was important because this was to become infused into the institutional culture of Wits.’ The book looks at the University’s role in South Africa’s war effort, its contribution to the education of ex-volunteers after the war, its leading role in training job-seeking professionals required by a rapidly expanding economy, and the rise of research and postgraduate study. WITS: The ‘Open’ Years paints a vivid picture of student life through their political activities, the flourishing of a student intelligentsia, the heyday of the Remember and Give (Rag) parade, rugby intervarsity, and the stunning success of Wits sportsmen and women.Foreword by Yunus Ballim Foreword by R.W. Charlton, Vice-Chancellor and Principal Preface and Acknowledgements Part I: World War II and the Ex-Volunteers Chapter 1 Wits at War Chapter 2 Raikes and the ‘Open University’ 1939–48 Chapter 3 Wits and the Ex-Volunteers Chapter 4 World War II, the Ex-Volunteers and Student Politics Part II: Wits in the Post-War Era 1945–1959 Chapter 5 Raikes, Student Politics and the Coming of Apartheid Chapter 6 Profile of Wits Chapter 7 Professional Faculties Chapter 8 Arts and Science Chapter 9 Defending the ‘Open University’ Chapter 10 End of an Era Part III: Student Life Chapter 11 Student Life in the 1950s – A.W. Stadler Chapter 12 Wits Sport 1939–1959 – Jonty Winch Notes Index

WITS: The 'Open' Years
Bruce Murray
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This book looks at the history of Wits University during and after World War II and its defense to maintain its ‘open’ status to admit students of all races.This, the second volume of the history of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) by historian Bruce Murray, has as its central theme the process by which Wits became an ‘open’ university admitting students of all races, the compromises this process entailed, and the defence the University mounted to preserve its ‘open’ status in the face of the challenges posed by the Nationalist Government. The University’s institutional autonomy is highlighted by Yunus Ballim in his preface to the centenary edition of WITS: The ‘Open’ Years. He writes: ‘The emerging posture of a university willing to rise in defence of academic freedom was important because this was to become infused into the institutional culture of Wits.’ The book looks at the University’s role in South Africa’s war effort, its contribution to the education of ex-volunteers after the war, its leading role in training job-seeking professionals required by a rapidly expanding economy, and the rise of research and postgraduate study. WITS: The ‘Open’ Years paints a vivid picture of student life through their political activities, the flourishing of a student intelligentsia, the heyday of the Remember and Give (Rag) parade, rugby intervarsity, and the stunning success of Wits sportsmen and women.Foreword by Yunus Ballim Foreword by R.W. Charlton, Vice-Chancellor and Principal Preface and Acknowledgements Part I: World War II and the Ex-Volunteers Chapter 1 Wits at War Chapter 2 Raikes and the ‘Open University’ 1939–48 Chapter 3 Wits and the Ex-Volunteers Chapter 4 World War II, the Ex-Volunteers and Student Politics Part II: Wits in the Post-War Era 1945–1959 Chapter 5 Raikes, Student Politics and the Coming of Apartheid Chapter 6 Profile of Wits Chapter 7 Professional Faculties Chapter 8 Arts and Science Chapter 9 Defending the ‘Open University’ Chapter 10 End of an Era Part III: Student Life Chapter 11 Student Life in the 1950s – A.W. Stadler Chapter 12 Wits Sport 1939–1959 – Jonty Winch Notes Index

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Bruce Murray
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WITS: The Early Years explores the struggle to establish a university in Johannesburg and the often dramatic and contested history of Wits University up to 1939.WITS: The Early Years is a history of the University up to 1939. First established in 1922, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg developed out of the South African School of Mines in Kimberley circa 1896. Examining the historical foundations, the struggle to establish a university in Johannesburg, and the progress of the University in the two decades prior to World War II, historian Bruce Murray captures the quality and texture of life in the early years of Wits University and the personalities who enlivened it and contributed to its growth. Particular attention is given to the wider issues and the challenges which faced Wits in its formative years. The book examines the role Wits came to occupy as a major centre of liberal thought and criticism in South Africa, its contribution to the development of the professions of the country, the relationship of its research to the wider society, and its attempts to grapple with a range of peculiarly South African problems, such as the admission of black students to the University and the relations of English- and Afrikaans-speaking white students within it. This edition of WITS: The Early Years is republished in the University’s centenary year with a preface by Keith Breckenridge.Foreword by D.J. du Plessis Foreword by Keith Breckenridge Acknowledgements Abbreviation Part I: Prelude to a University Chapter 1 False Start: Milner, Beit, and Smuts Chapter 2 From School of Mines to University Part II: The New University Chapter 3 A Turbulent Beginning Chapter 4 Administration, Finance, and Buildings Chapter 5 Arts and Science Chapter 6 The Professional Faculties Part III: Raikes: The First Decade Chapter 7 Depression and Recovery Chapter 8 Ascendancy of the Professions Part IV: Students and Special Issues Chapter 9 Questions of Discrimination Chapter 10 Student Life A Note on Sources Index

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Bruce Murray
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WITS: The Early Years explores the struggle to establish a university in Johannesburg and the often dramatic and contested history of Wits University up to 1939.WITS: The Early Years is a history of the University up to 1939. First established in 1922, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg developed out of the South African School of Mines in Kimberley circa 1896. Examining the historical foundations, the struggle to establish a university in Johannesburg, and the progress of the University in the two decades prior to World War II, historian Bruce Murray captures the quality and texture of life in the early years of Wits University and the personalities who enlivened it and contributed to its growth. Particular attention is given to the wider issues and the challenges which faced Wits in its formative years. The book examines the role Wits came to occupy as a major centre of liberal thought and criticism in South Africa, its contribution to the development of the professions of the country, the relationship of its research to the wider society, and its attempts to grapple with a range of peculiarly South African problems, such as the admission of black students to the University and the relations of English- and Afrikaans-speaking white students within it. This edition of WITS: The Early Years is republished in the University’s centenary year with a preface by Keith Breckenridge.Foreword by D.J. du Plessis Foreword by Keith Breckenridge Acknowledgements Abbreviation Part I: Prelude to a University Chapter 1 False Start: Milner, Beit, and Smuts Chapter 2 From School of Mines to University Part II: The New University Chapter 3 A Turbulent Beginning Chapter 4 Administration, Finance, and Buildings Chapter 5 Arts and Science Chapter 6 The Professional Faculties Part III: Raikes: The First Decade Chapter 7 Depression and Recovery Chapter 8 Ascendancy of the Professions Part IV: Students and Special Issues Chapter 9 Questions of Discrimination Chapter 10 Student Life A Note on Sources Index

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Mervyn Shear
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Mervyn Shear tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid.The National Government moves to introduce segregated education galvanised the staff and students of the four ‘open universities’ to oppose any attempt to interfere with their autonomy and freedom to decide who should be admitted. In subsequent years, as the regime adopted increasingly oppressive measures to prop up the apartheid state, opposition on the campuses, and in the country, increased and burgeoned into a Mass Democratic Movement intent on making the country ungovernable. Protest escalated through successive states of emergency and clashes with police on campus became regular events. Residences were raided, student leaders were harassed by security police and many students and some staff were detained for lengthy periods without recourse to the courts. First published in 1996, WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era by Mervyn Shear tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid. This new edition is published in the University’s centenary year with a preface by Firoz Cachalia, one of Wits’ student leaders in the 1980s. It serves as an invaluable historical resource on questions about the relationship between the University and the state, and on understanding the University’s place and identity in a constitutional democracy. Foreword by Firoz Cachalia Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Racial Discrimination at Wits Chapter 2 The Threat to the ‘Open’ Universities Chapter 3 Activists Under Pressure Chapter 4 Student Politics in Black and White Chapter 5 The 1980s Chapter 6 Wits and the First State of Emergency Chapter 7 Resistance Escalates Chapter 8 Challenge to the Government Chapter 9 The Struggle Reaches a Climax Chapter 10 Transition to Democracy Chapter 11 Epilogue Notes Appendices Index

WITS
Mervyn Shear
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Mervyn Shear tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid.The National Government moves to introduce segregated education galvanised the staff and students of the four ‘open universities’ to oppose any attempt to interfere with their autonomy and freedom to decide who should be admitted. In subsequent years, as the regime adopted increasingly oppressive measures to prop up the apartheid state, opposition on the campuses, and in the country, increased and burgeoned into a Mass Democratic Movement intent on making the country ungovernable. Protest escalated through successive states of emergency and clashes with police on campus became regular events. Residences were raided, student leaders were harassed by security police and many students and some staff were detained for lengthy periods without recourse to the courts. First published in 1996, WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era by Mervyn Shear tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid. This new edition is published in the University’s centenary year with a preface by Firoz Cachalia, one of Wits’ student leaders in the 1980s. It serves as an invaluable historical resource on questions about the relationship between the University and the state, and on understanding the University’s place and identity in a constitutional democracy. Foreword by Firoz Cachalia Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Racial Discrimination at Wits Chapter 2 The Threat to the ‘Open’ Universities Chapter 3 Activists Under Pressure Chapter 4 Student Politics in Black and White Chapter 5 The 1980s Chapter 6 Wits and the First State of Emergency Chapter 7 Resistance Escalates Chapter 8 Challenge to the Government Chapter 9 The Struggle Reaches a Climax Chapter 10 Transition to Democracy Chapter 11 Epilogue Notes Appendices Index

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Celebrating the experiences, achievements and insights of past and present students, this book maps the university’s current and future vision as it marks its centenary in 2022.The University of the Witwatersrand occupies a special place in the hearts and minds of South Africans. It is a leading university renowned for its commitment to academic and research excellence, social justice and advancement of the public good. The history of the university is inextricably linked to the development of Johannesburg, to mining, and to deeply rooted political and social activism. Wits University at 100: From Excavation to Innovation captures moments of Wits’ story over 100 years through exploring its origins, its place in society, its transformation and its challenges as it prepares for the next century. This centennial publication presents a narrative of Wits as a living and dynamic institution, celebrating its existence through its people, many of whom, in one way or another, have shifted the world. Driven by the voices of its people, Wits University at 100 tells the story of Wits from its humble beginnings as a mining college in Johannesburg to its current position as a flourishing university stimulating innovation from the global South. The experiences, achievements and insights of past and present ‘Witsies’ showcasedin this full-colour, illustrated book map the university’s current and future vision as it marks its centenary in 2022. Foreword Introduction: Looking Back, Moving Forward Chapter 1: Origins The Last Word: Benedict Vilakazi Wits Pioneer: Johnny Clegg Dynamite Underground: Wits Geosciences Fighting the Good Fight Wits Pioneer: Stephen Matseoane Life as We Know It: The Story of Life Wits Pioneer: Advocate Thuli Madonsela Chapter 2: Space and Place Behind the Scenes of #FeesMustFall Activists, Scientists and a Lifetime of Service: Maurice Smithers Wits Rural Campus: The Hidden Gem Knowing Your Place Activists, Scientists and a Lifetime of Service: Patrick Soon-Shiong and Michele B. Chan Leading the Charge Activists, Scientists and a Lifetime of Service: Bhekokuzakuye ‘Keith’ Mdlalose Chapter 3: The Future Light Years Ahead: Invention, Innovation and the Structured Light Lab Minding the Matter Wits Futurists Lead the Way: Achille Mbembe Fringe of the Future Wits Futurists Lead the Way: Marcus Byrne African Art Beat: Wits Art Museum I Have a Dream … Chapter 4: The Next Century Begins Now Afterword Timeline Notes Interviewees Bibliography and Source Material Acknowledgements Index

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Celebrating the experiences, achievements and insights of past and present students, this book maps the university’s current and future vision as it marks its centenary in 2022.The University of the Witwatersrand occupies a special place in the hearts and minds of South Africans. It is a leading university renowned for its commitment to academic and research excellence, social justice and advancement of the public good. The history of the university is inextricably linked to the development of Johannesburg, to mining, and to deeply rooted political and social activism. Wits University at 100: From Excavation to Innovation captures moments of Wits’ story over 100 years through exploring its origins, its place in society, its transformation and its challenges as it prepares for the next century. This centennial publication presents a narrative of Wits as a living and dynamic institution, celebrating its existence through its people, many of whom, in one way or another, have shifted the world. Driven by the voices of its people, Wits University at 100 tells the story of Wits from its humble beginnings as a mining college in Johannesburg to its current position as a flourishing university stimulating innovation from the global South. The experiences, achievements and insights of past and present ‘Witsies’ showcasedin this full-colour, illustrated book map the university’s current and future vision as it marks its centenary in 2022. Foreword Introduction: Looking Back, Moving Forward Chapter 1: Origins The Last Word: Benedict Vilakazi Wits Pioneer: Johnny Clegg Dynamite Underground: Wits Geosciences Fighting the Good Fight Wits Pioneer: Stephen Matseoane Life as We Know It: The Story of Life Wits Pioneer: Advocate Thuli Madonsela Chapter 2: Space and Place Behind the Scenes of #FeesMustFall Activists, Scientists and a Lifetime of Service: Maurice Smithers Wits Rural Campus: The Hidden Gem Knowing Your Place Activists, Scientists and a Lifetime of Service: Patrick Soon-Shiong and Michele B. Chan Leading the Charge Activists, Scientists and a Lifetime of Service: Bhekokuzakuye ‘Keith’ Mdlalose Chapter 3: The Future Light Years Ahead: Invention, Innovation and the Structured Light Lab Minding the Matter Wits Futurists Lead the Way: Achille Mbembe Fringe of the Future Wits Futurists Lead the Way: Marcus Byrne African Art Beat: Wits Art Museum I Have a Dream … Chapter 4: The Next Century Begins Now Afterword Timeline Notes Interviewees Bibliography and Source Material Acknowledgements Index

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