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Affiche du document Troubling Images — Troubling Images
Brenda Schmahmann
2h23min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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191 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h23min.
Focusing on manifestations of Afrikaner nationalism in paintings, sculptures, monuments, buildings, cartoons, photographs, illustrations and exhibitions, Troubling Images offers a critical account of the role of art and visual culture in the construction of a unified Afrikaner imaginary, which helped secure hegemonic claims to the nation-state during South Africa’s apartheid years. This insightful volume examines the implications of metaphors and styles deployed in visual culture, and considers how the design, production, collecting and commissioning of objects, images and architecture were informed by Afrikaner nationalist imperatives and ideals. While some chapters focus only on instances of adherence to Afrikaner nationalism, others consider articulations of dissent and criticism. By ‘troubling’ these images: looking at them, teasing out their meanings, and connecting them to a political and social project that still has a major impact on the present moment, the authors engage with the ways in which an Afrikaner nationalist inheritance is understood and negotiated in contemporary South Africa. Troubling Images adds to current debates about the histories and ideological underpinnings of nationalism and is particularly relevant in the current context of globalism and diaspora, resurgent nationalisms and calls for decolonisation.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 The Trajectory and Dynamics of Afrikaner Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: An Overview – Albert Grundlingh Part 1: Assent and Dissent through Fine Art and Architecture Chapter 2 Afrikaner Nationalism and Other Settler Imaginaries at the 1936 Empire Exhibition – Lize van Robbroeck Chapter 3 From Volksargitektuur to Boere Brazil: Afrikaner Nationalism and the architectural imaginary of modernity, 1936-1966 – Federico Freschi Chapter 4 Afrikaner Identity in Contemporary Visual Art: A Study in Hauntology – Theo Sonnekus Part 2: Sculptures on University Campuses Chapter 5 ‘It Is Not Even Past’: Dealing with Monuments and Memorials on Divided Campuses – Jonathan D. Jansen Chapter 6 Knocking Jannie off his Pedestal: Two Creative Interventions to the Sculpture of J H Marais at Stellenbosch University – Brenda Schmahmann Part 3: Photography, Identity and Nationhood Chapter 7 Celebrating the Volk: Photographs of the Voortrekker Monument’s 1949 Inauguration by the State Information Office – Katharina Jörder Chapter 8 Reframing David Goldblatt, Re-thinking Some Afrikaners ¬– Michael Godby and Liese van der Watt Part 4: Deploying Mass Media and Popular Visual Culture Chapter 9 The becoming girl: Anton van Wouw’s Noitjie van die Onderveld, Afrikaner Nationalism and the Construction of the Volksmoeder Discourse – Lou-Marié Kruger Chapter 10 Cartoons, Intellectuals, and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism – Peter Vale Chapter 11 Manifestations of Militarisation: Visual Narratives of the Border War in 1980s South African Print Culture – Gary Baines Contributor biographies Index

Troubling Images
Brenda Schmahmann
2h23min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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191 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h23min.
Focusing on manifestations of Afrikaner nationalism in paintings, sculptures, monuments, buildings, cartoons, photographs, illustrations and exhibitions, Troubling Images offers a critical account of the role of art and visual culture in the construction of a unified Afrikaner imaginary, which helped secure hegemonic claims to the nation-state during South Africa’s apartheid years. This insightful volume examines the implications of metaphors and styles deployed in visual culture, and considers how the design, production, collecting and commissioning of objects, images and architecture were informed by Afrikaner nationalist imperatives and ideals. While some chapters focus only on instances of adherence to Afrikaner nationalism, others consider articulations of dissent and criticism. By ‘troubling’ these images: looking at them, teasing out their meanings, and connecting them to a political and social project that still has a major impact on the present moment, the authors engage with the ways in which an Afrikaner nationalist inheritance is understood and negotiated in contemporary South Africa. Troubling Images adds to current debates about the histories and ideological underpinnings of nationalism and is particularly relevant in the current context of globalism and diaspora, resurgent nationalisms and calls for decolonisation.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1 The Trajectory and Dynamics of Afrikaner Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: An Overview – Albert Grundlingh Part 1: Assent and Dissent through Fine Art and Architecture Chapter 2 Afrikaner Nationalism and Other Settler Imaginaries at the 1936 Empire Exhibition – Lize van Robbroeck Chapter 3 From Volksargitektuur to Boere Brazil: Afrikaner Nationalism and the architectural imaginary of modernity, 1936-1966 – Federico Freschi Chapter 4 Afrikaner Identity in Contemporary Visual Art: A Study in Hauntology – Theo Sonnekus Part 2: Sculptures on University Campuses Chapter 5 ‘It Is Not Even Past’: Dealing with Monuments and Memorials on Divided Campuses – Jonathan D. Jansen Chapter 6 Knocking Jannie off his Pedestal: Two Creative Interventions to the Sculpture of J H Marais at Stellenbosch University – Brenda Schmahmann Part 3: Photography, Identity and Nationhood Chapter 7 Celebrating the Volk: Photographs of the Voortrekker Monument’s 1949 Inauguration by the State Information Office – Katharina Jörder Chapter 8 Reframing David Goldblatt, Re-thinking Some Afrikaners ¬– Michael Godby and Liese van der Watt Part 4: Deploying Mass Media and Popular Visual Culture Chapter 9 The becoming girl: Anton van Wouw’s Noitjie van die Onderveld, Afrikaner Nationalism and the Construction of the Volksmoeder Discourse – Lou-Marié Kruger Chapter 10 Cartoons, Intellectuals, and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism – Peter Vale Chapter 11 Manifestations of Militarisation: Visual Narratives of the Border War in 1980s South African Print Culture – Gary Baines Contributor biographies Index

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Affiche du document In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa — In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa
Tina Steiner
2h15min00
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180 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h15min.
In November 1949 D.D.T. Jabavu, the South African politician and professor of African languages at Fort Hare University, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World Pacifist Meeting in India. He wrote an isiXhosa account of his journey which was published in 1951 by Lovedale Press. This new edition republishes the travelogue in the original isiXhosa, with an English translation by the late anthropologist Cecil Wele Manona. The travelogue contains reflections on Jabavu’s social interactions during his travels, and on the conference itself, where he considered what lessons Gandhian principles might yield for South Africans engaged in struggles for freedom and dignity. His commentary on non-violent resistance, and on the dangers of nationalism and racism, enriches the existing archive of intellectual exchanges between Africa and India from a black South African perspective. The volume includes chapters by the editors that examine the networks of international solidarity – from post-independence India to the anti-colonial struggle in East Africa and the American civil rights movement – which Jabavu helped to strengthen, biographical sketches of Jabavu and of Manona, and an afterword that reflects on the historical and political significance of making African-language texts available to readers across Africa.List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Networks of Solidarity: D.D.T. Jabavu’s Voyage to India – Tina Steiner Revisiting D.D.T. Jabavu, 1885–1959 – Catherine Higgs Notes on the Original and the Translation – Mhlobo W. Jadezweni In Praise of Cecil Wele Manona, 1937–2013 – Catherine Higgs E-Indiya nase East Africa – D.D.T. Jabavu In India and East Africa – D.D.T. Jabavu, translated by Cecil Wele Manona, edited by Tina Steiner and Mhlobo W. Jadezweni Afterword: Jabavu and African Translations for the Future – Evan M. Mwangi References Editors’ biographies Index

In India and East Africa E-Indiya nase East Africa
Tina Steiner
2h15min00
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180 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h15min.
In November 1949 D.D.T. Jabavu, the South African politician and professor of African languages at Fort Hare University, set out on a four-month trip to attend the World Pacifist Meeting in India. He wrote an isiXhosa account of his journey which was published in 1951 by Lovedale Press. This new edition republishes the travelogue in the original isiXhosa, with an English translation by the late anthropologist Cecil Wele Manona. The travelogue contains reflections on Jabavu’s social interactions during his travels, and on the conference itself, where he considered what lessons Gandhian principles might yield for South Africans engaged in struggles for freedom and dignity. His commentary on non-violent resistance, and on the dangers of nationalism and racism, enriches the existing archive of intellectual exchanges between Africa and India from a black South African perspective. The volume includes chapters by the editors that examine the networks of international solidarity – from post-independence India to the anti-colonial struggle in East Africa and the American civil rights movement – which Jabavu helped to strengthen, biographical sketches of Jabavu and of Manona, and an afterword that reflects on the historical and political significance of making African-language texts available to readers across Africa.List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Networks of Solidarity: D.D.T. Jabavu’s Voyage to India – Tina Steiner Revisiting D.D.T. Jabavu, 1885–1959 – Catherine Higgs Notes on the Original and the Translation – Mhlobo W. Jadezweni In Praise of Cecil Wele Manona, 1937–2013 – Catherine Higgs E-Indiya nase East Africa – D.D.T. Jabavu In India and East Africa – D.D.T. Jabavu, translated by Cecil Wele Manona, edited by Tina Steiner and Mhlobo W. Jadezweni Afterword: Jabavu and African Translations for the Future – Evan M. Mwangi References Editors’ biographies Index

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Affiche du document Selecting Immigrants — Selecting Immigrants
Sally Peberdy
2h41min15
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At a time when immigration is at the forefront of international and South African debates, this book critically examines the relationship between changes in South Africa’s immigration policies, and shifts in the construction of national identity by the South African state. Relating the history of the immigration policies of the South African state between 1919 and 2008, Peberdy explores the synergy between periods of significant change in state discourses and policies of migration, and those historical moments when South Africa was reinvented politically or was in the process of active nation building. It is in these periods that the relationships between immigration, nationalism and national identity are most starkly revealed.Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Establishing the Territory Chapter 1 Immigration, Nations and National Identity Chapter 2 ‘A White Man’s Land’: Indian Immigration and the 1913 Immigrants Regulation Act Chapter 3 Not White Like Us: Preserving ‘Original Stocks’ and the Exclusion of Jewish Immigrants Chapter 4 Building an Unhyphenated Nation: British Immigration and Afrikaner Nationalism Chapter 5 One (White) Nation, One Fatherland: Republicanism, Assisted Immigration and the Metaphysical Body Chapter 6 Democratic South Africa: Inclusive Identities and Exclusive Immigration Policies Conclusion: Nationalisms, National Identities and South Africa’s Immigration Policies Notes to Chapters Appendix 1: Total, immigration and emigration, and net gain/loss in migration, by sex, 1924-2004 Appendix 2: Immigration by country of previous permanent residence, birth and citizenship, 1924-2004 Bibliography Index

Selecting Immigrants
Sally Peberdy
2h41min15
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At a time when immigration is at the forefront of international and South African debates, this book critically examines the relationship between changes in South Africa’s immigration policies, and shifts in the construction of national identity by the South African state. Relating the history of the immigration policies of the South African state between 1919 and 2008, Peberdy explores the synergy between periods of significant change in state discourses and policies of migration, and those historical moments when South Africa was reinvented politically or was in the process of active nation building. It is in these periods that the relationships between immigration, nationalism and national identity are most starkly revealed.Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Establishing the Territory Chapter 1 Immigration, Nations and National Identity Chapter 2 ‘A White Man’s Land’: Indian Immigration and the 1913 Immigrants Regulation Act Chapter 3 Not White Like Us: Preserving ‘Original Stocks’ and the Exclusion of Jewish Immigrants Chapter 4 Building an Unhyphenated Nation: British Immigration and Afrikaner Nationalism Chapter 5 One (White) Nation, One Fatherland: Republicanism, Assisted Immigration and the Metaphysical Body Chapter 6 Democratic South Africa: Inclusive Identities and Exclusive Immigration Policies Conclusion: Nationalisms, National Identities and South Africa’s Immigration Policies Notes to Chapters Appendix 1: Total, immigration and emigration, and net gain/loss in migration, by sex, 1924-2004 Appendix 2: Immigration by country of previous permanent residence, birth and citizenship, 1924-2004 Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document The World Looks Like This From Here — The World Looks Like This From Here
Kopano Ratele
1h44min15
Philosophie
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Innovative in form and content, The World Looks Like This From Here offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. Setting out a situated, pluralising framework for researching, teaching and practising African psychology, the book urges reflection on and reconsideration of how the discipline is taught and practised on the continent. Writing against the universal application of a Western model of psychology, which is unreflective about its locatedness even as it pushes Africa to the margins, Ratele urges readers to engage and think deeply about new ways of seeing and thinking about the self and others. He asserts that the deliberate attempt to see the world from Africa – to look at everything with the whole self from here – leads to heightened consciousness about ways of being in the world, and enhances the capacity for healing. This lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise is a cogent and timely response to the call for the decolonisation of social sciences and other disciplines.

The World Looks Like This From Here
Kopano Ratele
1h44min15
Philosophie
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139 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h44min.
Innovative in form and content, The World Looks Like This From Here offers thoughts about the ideas, contestation, urgency and desire around a psychological praxis in Africa for Africans. Setting out a situated, pluralising framework for researching, teaching and practising African psychology, the book urges reflection on and reconsideration of how the discipline is taught and practised on the continent. Writing against the universal application of a Western model of psychology, which is unreflective about its locatedness even as it pushes Africa to the margins, Ratele urges readers to engage and think deeply about new ways of seeing and thinking about the self and others. He asserts that the deliberate attempt to see the world from Africa – to look at everything with the whole self from here – leads to heightened consciousness about ways of being in the world, and enhances the capacity for healing. This lyrical, philosophical and poetic treatise is a cogent and timely response to the call for the decolonisation of social sciences and other disciplines.

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Affiche du document Politics and Community-Based Research — Politics and Community-Based Research
Sarah Charlton
3h22min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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270 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h22min.
Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg offers a substantive and compelling analysis for a diverse readership interested in urban politics, community mapping and the built environment. The book draws on a critical reflection of Yeoville Studio, a research project conducted by Wits University academics from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, together with community partners and postgraduate students. A collection of vignettes portraying people and places in Yeoville interwoven with theoretically analytical chapters, it explores the politics of community research at a neighbourhood scale in its multiple facets, and will resonate with similar contested and complex neighbourhoods across the world. The mix of analysis, vignettes, photographs, architectural design and graphics builds the discussion in engaging, rich and integrated ways, to capture the many participatory approaches taken to this city-community studio.Acknowledgements Section A Introducing the book Chapter 1 Why tell the story of Yeoville Studio? – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 2 Introducing Yeoville: Context and representations – Sophie Didier and Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 3 Exploring the politics of community-engaged research – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Section B Narrating: The politics of constructing local identities Chapter 4 Introduction – Sophie Didier Chapter 5 Being young in Yeoville – Potsiso Phasha Chapter 6 Africa Week Festival in Yeoville: Reclaiming a social and political space through art – Pauline Guinard Chapter 7 Love stories – Willy-Claude Hebandjoko, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Shahid Vawda Chapter 8 Constructing Yeoville community: Public meetings, local leadership and managing xenophobic discourse – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Eulenda Mkwanazi Chapter 9 Yeoville as a transgressional space: Voëlvry and the Afrikaner counterculture of the 1980s – Maria Suriano, William Dewar and Clara Pienaar-Lewis Chapter 10 Leaving Yeoville – Sophie Didier and Ophélie Arrazouaki Chapter 11 The Yeoville Stories project: Looking for public history in Johannesburg – Sophie Didier and Naomi Roux Section C Recommending: From understanding micro-politics to imagining policy Chapter 12 Introduction – Sarah Charlton Chapter 13 My place in Yeoville: Housing stories – Kirsten Dörmann, Mpho Matsipa and Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 14 Urban compounding in Johannesburg – Kirsten Dörmann and Solam Mkhabela Chapter 15 Community land trusts and social inclusion – Heinz Klug and Neil Klug Chapter 16 Building stories – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 17 Learning from low-income living in an inner-city suburb to inform policy – Sarah Charlton Chapter 18 Sharing a flat in Yeoville: Trajectories, experiences, relationships – Simon Sizwe Mayson Chapter 19 Running a spaza shop – Mamokete Matjomane Chapter 20 Integrating the ‘community’ in the governance of urban informality at the neighbourhood level – Mamokete Matjomane and Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Section D Politicising: Community-based research and the politics of knowledge Chapter 21 Introduction – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 22 Street trader stories – Nicolette Pingo Chapter 23 Designing with informality: Towards an urban design framework for Yeoville’s main street – Abdul Abed Chapter 24 Street photography and the politics of representation: A portrait of Muller Street – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Sally Gaule Chapter 25 Knowledge construction in a multidisciplinary perspective: Portraying Natal-Saunders Street – Solam Mkhabela, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Kirsten Dörmann Chapter 26 Knowledge capital and urban community politics in Yeoville – Obvious Katsaura Chapter 27 Activists in their own words – Eulenda Mkwanazi and Nicolette Pingo Chapter 28 Knowledge production and the politics of community engagement: Working with informal traders in Yeoville and beyond – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Contributors Photography credits Acronyms List of tables and figures Index

Politics and Community-Based Research
Sarah Charlton
3h22min30
Sciences humaines et sociales
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270 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h22min.
Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg offers a substantive and compelling analysis for a diverse readership interested in urban politics, community mapping and the built environment. The book draws on a critical reflection of Yeoville Studio, a research project conducted by Wits University academics from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, together with community partners and postgraduate students. A collection of vignettes portraying people and places in Yeoville interwoven with theoretically analytical chapters, it explores the politics of community research at a neighbourhood scale in its multiple facets, and will resonate with similar contested and complex neighbourhoods across the world. The mix of analysis, vignettes, photographs, architectural design and graphics builds the discussion in engaging, rich and integrated ways, to capture the many participatory approaches taken to this city-community studio.Acknowledgements Section A Introducing the book Chapter 1 Why tell the story of Yeoville Studio? – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 2 Introducing Yeoville: Context and representations – Sophie Didier and Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 3 Exploring the politics of community-engaged research – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Section B Narrating: The politics of constructing local identities Chapter 4 Introduction – Sophie Didier Chapter 5 Being young in Yeoville – Potsiso Phasha Chapter 6 Africa Week Festival in Yeoville: Reclaiming a social and political space through art – Pauline Guinard Chapter 7 Love stories – Willy-Claude Hebandjoko, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Shahid Vawda Chapter 8 Constructing Yeoville community: Public meetings, local leadership and managing xenophobic discourse – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Eulenda Mkwanazi Chapter 9 Yeoville as a transgressional space: Voëlvry and the Afrikaner counterculture of the 1980s – Maria Suriano, William Dewar and Clara Pienaar-Lewis Chapter 10 Leaving Yeoville – Sophie Didier and Ophélie Arrazouaki Chapter 11 The Yeoville Stories project: Looking for public history in Johannesburg – Sophie Didier and Naomi Roux Section C Recommending: From understanding micro-politics to imagining policy Chapter 12 Introduction – Sarah Charlton Chapter 13 My place in Yeoville: Housing stories – Kirsten Dörmann, Mpho Matsipa and Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 14 Urban compounding in Johannesburg – Kirsten Dörmann and Solam Mkhabela Chapter 15 Community land trusts and social inclusion – Heinz Klug and Neil Klug Chapter 16 Building stories – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 17 Learning from low-income living in an inner-city suburb to inform policy – Sarah Charlton Chapter 18 Sharing a flat in Yeoville: Trajectories, experiences, relationships – Simon Sizwe Mayson Chapter 19 Running a spaza shop – Mamokete Matjomane Chapter 20 Integrating the ‘community’ in the governance of urban informality at the neighbourhood level – Mamokete Matjomane and Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Section D Politicising: Community-based research and the politics of knowledge Chapter 21 Introduction – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Chapter 22 Street trader stories – Nicolette Pingo Chapter 23 Designing with informality: Towards an urban design framework for Yeoville’s main street – Abdul Abed Chapter 24 Street photography and the politics of representation: A portrait of Muller Street – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Sally Gaule Chapter 25 Knowledge construction in a multidisciplinary perspective: Portraying Natal-Saunders Street – Solam Mkhabela, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Kirsten Dörmann Chapter 26 Knowledge capital and urban community politics in Yeoville – Obvious Katsaura Chapter 27 Activists in their own words – Eulenda Mkwanazi and Nicolette Pingo Chapter 28 Knowledge production and the politics of community engagement: Working with informal traders in Yeoville and beyond – Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Contributors Photography credits Acronyms List of tables and figures Index

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Affiche du document South Africa's Suspended Revolution — South Africa's Suspended Revolution
Adam Habib
2h15min45
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181 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h16min.
South Africa’s Suspended Revolution engages with the country’s transition into democracy and its prospects for inclusive development. It is an antidote to many descriptive and voluntarist explanations in which leaders and other actors are treated as unfettered agents whose choices and behaviour are merely the result of their own abilities or follies. In contrast, Adam Habib explains the story of how South Africa arrived at this point by locating these actors in context. He tries to understand the institutional constraints within which they operated, why they made the choices they did, and what the consequences are. The book also explores what other policy options and behavioural choices may have been available, and why these were forsaken for the ones that were eventually adopted.Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Governance, political accountability and service delivery Chapter 3 The political economy of development Chapter 4 The viability of a sustainable social pact Chapter 5 The evolution of state–civil society relations Chapter 6 South Africa and the world Chapter 7 What is to be done? Chapter 8 Reinterpreting democratic and development experiences

South Africa's Suspended Revolution
Adam Habib
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181 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h16min.
South Africa’s Suspended Revolution engages with the country’s transition into democracy and its prospects for inclusive development. It is an antidote to many descriptive and voluntarist explanations in which leaders and other actors are treated as unfettered agents whose choices and behaviour are merely the result of their own abilities or follies. In contrast, Adam Habib explains the story of how South Africa arrived at this point by locating these actors in context. He tries to understand the institutional constraints within which they operated, why they made the choices they did, and what the consequences are. The book also explores what other policy options and behavioural choices may have been available, and why these were forsaken for the ones that were eventually adopted.Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Governance, political accountability and service delivery Chapter 3 The political economy of development Chapter 4 The viability of a sustainable social pact Chapter 5 The evolution of state–civil society relations Chapter 6 South Africa and the world Chapter 7 What is to be done? Chapter 8 Reinterpreting democratic and development experiences

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Affiche du document Being Black in the World — Being Black in the World
N Chabani Manganyi
1h03min00
Philosophie
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84 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h03min.
Being-Black-in-the-World is a collection of essays by N. Chabani Manganyi, one of South Africa’s most eminent intellectuals and social and political observers. First published in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule, this edition includes a foreword by Garth Stevens, notes by Graham Hayes, as well as an afterword by Njabulo Ndebele. In this book, Manganyi attempts to make sense of black subjectivity and the persistence of white insensitivity to black suffering. Like Fanon in Black Skins, White Masks, Manganyi expresses the vileness of the racist order and its effect on the human condition. Each of these short essays can be read as self-contained reflections on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years. Manganyi is a master of understatement, yet this does not stop him from making incisive political criticisms of black subjugation under apartheid. While the essays in this book are clearly situated in the material and social conditions of that time, they also have a timelessness that speaks to our contemporary concerns regarding black subjectivity, affectivity and corporeality; the persistence of a racial (and racist) order; and the possibilities of a renewed de-colonial project.Foreword – Garth Stevens Introduction Chapter 1 Who Are the Urban Africans? Chapter 2 Black Consciousness Chapter 3 Us and Them Chapter 4 Being-black-in-the-world Chapter 5 Nausea Chapter 6 Reflections of a Black Clinician Chapter 7 The Meaning of Change Chapter 8 Postscriptum – ‘African Time’ Afterword - Njabulo S. Ndebele

Being Black in the World
N Chabani Manganyi
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Being-Black-in-the-World is a collection of essays by N. Chabani Manganyi, one of South Africa’s most eminent intellectuals and social and political observers. First published in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule, this edition includes a foreword by Garth Stevens, notes by Graham Hayes, as well as an afterword by Njabulo Ndebele. In this book, Manganyi attempts to make sense of black subjectivity and the persistence of white insensitivity to black suffering. Like Fanon in Black Skins, White Masks, Manganyi expresses the vileness of the racist order and its effect on the human condition. Each of these short essays can be read as self-contained reflections on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years. Manganyi is a master of understatement, yet this does not stop him from making incisive political criticisms of black subjugation under apartheid. While the essays in this book are clearly situated in the material and social conditions of that time, they also have a timelessness that speaks to our contemporary concerns regarding black subjectivity, affectivity and corporeality; the persistence of a racial (and racist) order; and the possibilities of a renewed de-colonial project.Foreword – Garth Stevens Introduction Chapter 1 Who Are the Urban Africans? Chapter 2 Black Consciousness Chapter 3 Us and Them Chapter 4 Being-black-in-the-world Chapter 5 Nausea Chapter 6 Reflections of a Black Clinician Chapter 7 The Meaning of Change Chapter 8 Postscriptum – ‘African Time’ Afterword - Njabulo S. Ndebele

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Affiche du document Governance and the postcolony — Governance and the postcolony
David Everatt
2h35min15
Politique
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207 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h35min.
Civil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or ‘good’ governance – yet they seem to speak past one another. Governance is in danger of losing all meaning precisely because it means many things to different people in varied locations. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, the postcolony takes many forms, reflecting the imperial project with painful accuracy. Offering a set of multidisciplinary analyses of governance in different sectors (crisis management, water, food security, universities), in different locales across sub-Saharan Africa, and from different theoretical approaches (network to adversarial network governance); this volume makes a useful addition to the growing debates on ‘how to govern’. It steers away from offering a ‘correct’ definition of governance, or from promoting a particular position on postcoloniality. It gives no neat conclusion, but invites readers to draw their own conclusions based on these differing approaches to and analyses of governance in the postcolony. As a robust, critical assessment of power and accountability in the sub-Saharan context, this collection brings together topical case studies that will be a valuable resource for those working in the field of African international relations, public policy, public management and administration.Figures and tables Abbreviations and acronyms Introduction: Governance in the Postcolony: Time for a rethink? – David Everatt Part I: Governance in sub-Saharan Africa in theory and practice Chapter 1 Governance in Africa: Notes towards a resurrection – David Everatt Chapter 2 African Shared Values in Governance for Integration: Progress and prospects – Salim Latib Chapter 3 Governance and Human Development in sub-Saharan Africa – Pundy Pillay Chapter 4 South African Foreign Policy and Global Governance: Conflict from above and below – Patrick Bond Chapter 5 Governing Urban Food Systems: Lessons from Lusaka, Zambia – Caryn Abrahams Chapter 6 African Crisis Leadership: Case study from West Africa – Anthoni van Nieuwkerk and Bongiwe Ngcobo Mphahlele Chapter 7 Public Policymaking through Adversarial Network Governance in South Africa – Susan Booysen Part II: Sectors and locations Chapter 8 Governance versus Government: As reflected in water management – Mike Muller Chapter 9 Broken Corporate Governance: South Africa’s municipal state-owned entities and agencies – William Gumede Chapter 10 Law and Governance: Has the South African judiciary overstepped its oversight mandate? – Chelete Monyane Chapter 11 Factoring in the ‘Real World’: Governance of public higher education in South Africa – Kirti Menon and Jody Cedras Chapter 12 Decolonisation of South African University Spaces: Case study of the Green Leadership Schools – Darlene Miller, Nomalanga Mkhize, Rebecca Pointer and Babalwa Magoqwana Chapter 13 Low-hanging Fruit or Deep-seated Transformation? Quality of life and governance in Gauteng, South Africa – David Everatt Contributors Index

Governance and the postcolony
David Everatt
2h35min15
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Civil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or ‘good’ governance – yet they seem to speak past one another. Governance is in danger of losing all meaning precisely because it means many things to different people in varied locations. This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa. Here, the postcolony takes many forms, reflecting the imperial project with painful accuracy. Offering a set of multidisciplinary analyses of governance in different sectors (crisis management, water, food security, universities), in different locales across sub-Saharan Africa, and from different theoretical approaches (network to adversarial network governance); this volume makes a useful addition to the growing debates on ‘how to govern’. It steers away from offering a ‘correct’ definition of governance, or from promoting a particular position on postcoloniality. It gives no neat conclusion, but invites readers to draw their own conclusions based on these differing approaches to and analyses of governance in the postcolony. As a robust, critical assessment of power and accountability in the sub-Saharan context, this collection brings together topical case studies that will be a valuable resource for those working in the field of African international relations, public policy, public management and administration.Figures and tables Abbreviations and acronyms Introduction: Governance in the Postcolony: Time for a rethink? – David Everatt Part I: Governance in sub-Saharan Africa in theory and practice Chapter 1 Governance in Africa: Notes towards a resurrection – David Everatt Chapter 2 African Shared Values in Governance for Integration: Progress and prospects – Salim Latib Chapter 3 Governance and Human Development in sub-Saharan Africa – Pundy Pillay Chapter 4 South African Foreign Policy and Global Governance: Conflict from above and below – Patrick Bond Chapter 5 Governing Urban Food Systems: Lessons from Lusaka, Zambia – Caryn Abrahams Chapter 6 African Crisis Leadership: Case study from West Africa – Anthoni van Nieuwkerk and Bongiwe Ngcobo Mphahlele Chapter 7 Public Policymaking through Adversarial Network Governance in South Africa – Susan Booysen Part II: Sectors and locations Chapter 8 Governance versus Government: As reflected in water management – Mike Muller Chapter 9 Broken Corporate Governance: South Africa’s municipal state-owned entities and agencies – William Gumede Chapter 10 Law and Governance: Has the South African judiciary overstepped its oversight mandate? – Chelete Monyane Chapter 11 Factoring in the ‘Real World’: Governance of public higher education in South Africa – Kirti Menon and Jody Cedras Chapter 12 Decolonisation of South African University Spaces: Case study of the Green Leadership Schools – Darlene Miller, Nomalanga Mkhize, Rebecca Pointer and Babalwa Magoqwana Chapter 13 Low-hanging Fruit or Deep-seated Transformation? Quality of life and governance in Gauteng, South Africa – David Everatt Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Decolonisation in Universities — Decolonisation in Universities
Jonathan D. Jansen
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Shortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. It was a word hardly heard in South Africa’s struggle lexicon and many asked: What exactly is decolonisation? This edited volume brings together the most innovative thinking on curriculum theory to address this important question. In the process, several critical questions are raised: Is decolonisation simply a slogan for addressing other pressing concerns on campuses and in society? What is the colonial legacy with respect to curriculum and can it be undone? How is the project of curriculum decolonisation similar to or different from the quest for postcolonial knowledge, indigenous knowledge or a critical theory of knowledge? What does decolonisation mean in a digital age where relationships between knowledge and power are shifting? The book combines strong conceptual analyses with novel case studies of attempts to ‘do decolonisation’ in settings as diverse as South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius. Such a comparative perspective enables reasonable judgements to be made about the prospects for institutional take-up within the curriculum of century-old universities.List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction and Overview: Making sense of decolonisation in universities – Jonathan D Jansen Part 1: The arguments for decolonisation Chapter 1 Decolonising universities – Mahmood Mamdani Chapter 2 The curriculum case for decolonisation – Lesley Le Grange Part 2: The politics and problems of decolonisation Chapter 3 On the politics of decolonisation: Knowledge, authority and the settled curriculum – Jonathan D Jansen Chapter 4 The institutional curriculum, pedagogy and the decolonisation of the South African university – Lis Lange Chapter 5 What counts and who belongs? Current debates in decolonising the curriculum – Ursula Hoadley and Jaamia Galant Part 3: Doing decolonisation Chapter 6 Scaling decolonial consciousness? The reinvention of ‘Africa’ in a neoliberal university – Jess Auerbach and Mlungisi Dlamini Chapter 7 Testing transgressive thinking: The “Learning Through Enlargement” Initiative at UNISA – Crain Soudien Chapter 8 Between higher and basic education in South Africa: What does decolonisation mean for teacher education? – Yusuf Sayed and Shireen Motala Part 4: Reimaging colonial inheritances Chapter 9 Public Art and/as Curricula: Seeking a new role for monuments associated with oppression – Brenda Schmahmann Chapter 10 The Plastic University: Knowledge, disciplines and the decolonial turn – André Keet Chapter 11 Decolonising knowledge: Can ubuntu ethics save us from coloniality? (Ex Africa semper aliquid novi?) – Piet Naude Chapter 12 Future knowledges and their implications for the decolonisation project – Achille Mbembe Afterword: Minds via Curricula? – Grant Parker Contributors Index

Decolonisation in Universities
Jonathan D. Jansen
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Shortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the decolonisation of universities. It was a word hardly heard in South Africa’s struggle lexicon and many asked: What exactly is decolonisation? This edited volume brings together the most innovative thinking on curriculum theory to address this important question. In the process, several critical questions are raised: Is decolonisation simply a slogan for addressing other pressing concerns on campuses and in society? What is the colonial legacy with respect to curriculum and can it be undone? How is the project of curriculum decolonisation similar to or different from the quest for postcolonial knowledge, indigenous knowledge or a critical theory of knowledge? What does decolonisation mean in a digital age where relationships between knowledge and power are shifting? The book combines strong conceptual analyses with novel case studies of attempts to ‘do decolonisation’ in settings as diverse as South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Mauritius. Such a comparative perspective enables reasonable judgements to be made about the prospects for institutional take-up within the curriculum of century-old universities.List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction and Overview: Making sense of decolonisation in universities – Jonathan D Jansen Part 1: The arguments for decolonisation Chapter 1 Decolonising universities – Mahmood Mamdani Chapter 2 The curriculum case for decolonisation – Lesley Le Grange Part 2: The politics and problems of decolonisation Chapter 3 On the politics of decolonisation: Knowledge, authority and the settled curriculum – Jonathan D Jansen Chapter 4 The institutional curriculum, pedagogy and the decolonisation of the South African university – Lis Lange Chapter 5 What counts and who belongs? Current debates in decolonising the curriculum – Ursula Hoadley and Jaamia Galant Part 3: Doing decolonisation Chapter 6 Scaling decolonial consciousness? The reinvention of ‘Africa’ in a neoliberal university – Jess Auerbach and Mlungisi Dlamini Chapter 7 Testing transgressive thinking: The “Learning Through Enlargement” Initiative at UNISA – Crain Soudien Chapter 8 Between higher and basic education in South Africa: What does decolonisation mean for teacher education? – Yusuf Sayed and Shireen Motala Part 4: Reimaging colonial inheritances Chapter 9 Public Art and/as Curricula: Seeking a new role for monuments associated with oppression – Brenda Schmahmann Chapter 10 The Plastic University: Knowledge, disciplines and the decolonial turn – André Keet Chapter 11 Decolonising knowledge: Can ubuntu ethics save us from coloniality? (Ex Africa semper aliquid novi?) – Piet Naude Chapter 12 Future knowledges and their implications for the decolonisation project – Achille Mbembe Afterword: Minds via Curricula? – Grant Parker Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences — Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Brendon Barnes
3h21min45
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Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research methods available to researchers responding to these context-boContents Tables and figures Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Research as practice: Contextualising applied research in the South African context – Sherianne Kramer, Angelo Fynn and Sumaya Laher Section 1 Quantitative methods Chapter 2 Non-experimental research designs: Investigating the spatial distribution and social ecology of male homicide – Lu-Anne Swart, Sherianne Kramer, Kopano Ratele and Mohamed Seedat Chapter 3 Longitudinal designs: The RANCH-SA study – Kate Cockcroft, Paul Goldschagg and Joseph Seabi Chapter 4 Establishing factorial validity of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: A cross-sectional design – Malose Makhubela and Solomon Mashegoane Chapter 5 Using the WAIS-III to illustrate test norming strategies for valid cognitive assessment: A non-experimental design – Ann B. Shuttleworth-Edwards Chapter 6 Quasi-experimental designs in applied behavioural health research – Brendon R. Barnes Chapter 7 Experimental research: Randomised control trials to evaluate task-shifting interventions – Goodman Sibeko and Dan J. Stein Chapter 8 Repeated-measures Factorial Design: Exploring working memory interactions in earworms – Thomas Geffen and Michael Pitman Chapter 9 Q Methodology: Patterns of subjectivity in academic misconduct – Gillian Finchilescu and Saloshni Muthal Section 2 Qualitative methods Chapter 10 Systematic case study research in clinical and counselling psychology – David J.A. Edwards Chapter 11 Doing psychobiography: The case of Christiaan Barnard – Roelf van Niekerk, Tracey Prenter and Paul Fouché Chapter 12 Narrative research in career counselling: The career construction interview – Jacobus G. Maree Chapter 13 Interrogating grounded theory in meaning-making of voluntary medical adult male circumcision for HIV prevention – Lynlee Howard-Payne Chapter 14 Feminist approaches: An exploration of women’s gendering experiences – Peace Kiguwa Chapter 15 The power of critical discourse analysis: Investigating female-perpetrated sex abuse victim discourses – Sherianne Kramer Chapter 16 Using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study racial social categories in radio talk – Kevin A. Whitehead Chapter 17 Autoethnography: Locating the voice of the self in post-apartheid South Africa – Jeanette Schmid Chapter 18 Genealogy in practice: Labour, discipline and power in the production of the South African mine worker – Brett Bowman, Ian Siemers and Kevin A. Whitehead Section 3 Transparadigmatic methods Chapter 19 Transformative mixed methods research in South Africa: Contributions to social justice – Brendon R. Barnes Chapter 20 Design research: Developing effective feedback interventions for school-based monitoring – Elizabeth Archer Chapter 21 Appreciative inquiry as transformative methodology: Case studies in health and wellness – Kathryn Nel and Saraswathie Govender Chapter 22 Photovoice methodologies for social justice – Shose Kessi, Debbie Kaminer, Floretta Boonzaier and Despina Learmonth Chapter 23 Action and community-based research: Improving local governance practices through the community scorecard – Diana Sanchez-Betancourt and Elmé Vivier Chapter 24 Trends in social science research in Africa: Rigour, relevance and responsibility – Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer Contributors Index

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Brendon Barnes
3h21min45
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Social science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order to respond to contexts characterised by diversity, racial and political tensions, socioeconomic disparities and gender inequalities. These methods often remain undocumented – a gap that this book starts to address. Written by experts from various methodological fields, Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive collation of original essays and cutting-edge research that demonstrates the variety of novel techniques and research methods available to researchers responding to these context-boContents Tables and figures Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Research as practice: Contextualising applied research in the South African context – Sherianne Kramer, Angelo Fynn and Sumaya Laher Section 1 Quantitative methods Chapter 2 Non-experimental research designs: Investigating the spatial distribution and social ecology of male homicide – Lu-Anne Swart, Sherianne Kramer, Kopano Ratele and Mohamed Seedat Chapter 3 Longitudinal designs: The RANCH-SA study – Kate Cockcroft, Paul Goldschagg and Joseph Seabi Chapter 4 Establishing factorial validity of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: A cross-sectional design – Malose Makhubela and Solomon Mashegoane Chapter 5 Using the WAIS-III to illustrate test norming strategies for valid cognitive assessment: A non-experimental design – Ann B. Shuttleworth-Edwards Chapter 6 Quasi-experimental designs in applied behavioural health research – Brendon R. Barnes Chapter 7 Experimental research: Randomised control trials to evaluate task-shifting interventions – Goodman Sibeko and Dan J. Stein Chapter 8 Repeated-measures Factorial Design: Exploring working memory interactions in earworms – Thomas Geffen and Michael Pitman Chapter 9 Q Methodology: Patterns of subjectivity in academic misconduct – Gillian Finchilescu and Saloshni Muthal Section 2 Qualitative methods Chapter 10 Systematic case study research in clinical and counselling psychology – David J.A. Edwards Chapter 11 Doing psychobiography: The case of Christiaan Barnard – Roelf van Niekerk, Tracey Prenter and Paul Fouché Chapter 12 Narrative research in career counselling: The career construction interview – Jacobus G. Maree Chapter 13 Interrogating grounded theory in meaning-making of voluntary medical adult male circumcision for HIV prevention – Lynlee Howard-Payne Chapter 14 Feminist approaches: An exploration of women’s gendering experiences – Peace Kiguwa Chapter 15 The power of critical discourse analysis: Investigating female-perpetrated sex abuse victim discourses – Sherianne Kramer Chapter 16 Using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to study racial social categories in radio talk – Kevin A. Whitehead Chapter 17 Autoethnography: Locating the voice of the self in post-apartheid South Africa – Jeanette Schmid Chapter 18 Genealogy in practice: Labour, discipline and power in the production of the South African mine worker – Brett Bowman, Ian Siemers and Kevin A. Whitehead Section 3 Transparadigmatic methods Chapter 19 Transformative mixed methods research in South Africa: Contributions to social justice – Brendon R. Barnes Chapter 20 Design research: Developing effective feedback interventions for school-based monitoring – Elizabeth Archer Chapter 21 Appreciative inquiry as transformative methodology: Case studies in health and wellness – Kathryn Nel and Saraswathie Govender Chapter 22 Photovoice methodologies for social justice – Shose Kessi, Debbie Kaminer, Floretta Boonzaier and Despina Learmonth Chapter 23 Action and community-based research: Improving local governance practices through the community scorecard – Diana Sanchez-Betancourt and Elmé Vivier Chapter 24 Trends in social science research in Africa: Rigour, relevance and responsibility – Sumaya Laher, Angelo Fynn and Sherianne Kramer Contributors Index

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Affiche du document War Against Ourselves — War Against Ourselves
Jacklyn Cock
1h42min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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For many people 'nature' means wilderness and wild animals. It is experienced indirectly through magazines and television programmes or through visiting the highly managed environments of national parks. Nature, however, is not external, separate from the world of people – we live in nature and interact with it daily. In this book, Jacklyn Cock describes how these intricate and complex interconnections, seen and unseen, are often ignored. Each of the ten chapters examines an aspect of our relationship with nature: ignoring, understanding, enjoying, imitating, privatising, polluting, abusing, protecting as well as organising for nature. The concluding chapter deals with the growing inequality between the North and the South. The War Against Ourselves compels us to re-examine our relationship with nature, to change our practices and dissolve present binary divisions such as people vs. animals, economic growth vs. environmental protection, 'nature' vs. 'culture'. It demonstrates the need for an inclusive politics which brings together peace, social and environmental justice activists who believe that another world is both possible and necessary.Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction Chapter 1: Ignoring nature Chapter 2: Understanding Nature Chapter 3: Enjoying Nature Chapter 4: Imitating Nature Chapter 5: Privatising Nature Chapter 6: Polluting Nature Chapter 7: Abusing Nature Chapter 8: Protecting Nature Chapter 9: Organising Nature Chapter 10: Rethinking Nature Endnotes Bibliography Index

War Against Ourselves
Jacklyn Cock
1h42min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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For many people 'nature' means wilderness and wild animals. It is experienced indirectly through magazines and television programmes or through visiting the highly managed environments of national parks. Nature, however, is not external, separate from the world of people – we live in nature and interact with it daily. In this book, Jacklyn Cock describes how these intricate and complex interconnections, seen and unseen, are often ignored. Each of the ten chapters examines an aspect of our relationship with nature: ignoring, understanding, enjoying, imitating, privatising, polluting, abusing, protecting as well as organising for nature. The concluding chapter deals with the growing inequality between the North and the South. The War Against Ourselves compels us to re-examine our relationship with nature, to change our practices and dissolve present binary divisions such as people vs. animals, economic growth vs. environmental protection, 'nature' vs. 'culture'. It demonstrates the need for an inclusive politics which brings together peace, social and environmental justice activists who believe that another world is both possible and necessary.Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction Chapter 1: Ignoring nature Chapter 2: Understanding Nature Chapter 3: Enjoying Nature Chapter 4: Imitating Nature Chapter 5: Privatising Nature Chapter 6: Polluting Nature Chapter 7: Abusing Nature Chapter 8: Protecting Nature Chapter 9: Organising Nature Chapter 10: Rethinking Nature Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Go Home or Die Here — Go Home or Die Here
Tawana Kupe
2h00min00
Politique
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The xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what profound social malaise is xenophobia – and the violence that it inspires – a symptom? Have our economic and political choices created new forms of exclusion that fuel anger and distrust? What consequences does the emergence of xenophobia hold for the idea of an equal, non-racial society as symbolised by a democratic South Africa? Go Home or Die Here hopes to make sense of the nuances and trajectories of building a democratic society out of a deeply divided and conflictual past, in the conditions of global recession, heightening inequalities and future uncertainty. The authors hoped to pose questions that would lead both to research and to more informed, reflective forms of public action. With extensive photographs by award-winning photographer Alon Skuy, who covered the violence for The Times newspaper, the volume is passionate and engaged, and aims to stimulate reflection, debate and activism among concerned members of a broad public.Foreword – Bishop Paul Verryn Introduction – Eric Worby, Shireen Hassim and Tawana Kupe Chapter 1 A Torn Narrative of Violence – Alex Eliseev Chapter 2 I Did Not Expect Such a Thing to Happen – Rolf Maruping Chapter 3 (Dis)connections: Elite and Popular ‘Common Sense’ on the Matter of ‘Foreigners’ – Daryl Glaser Chapter 4 Xenophobia in Alexandra – Noor Nieftagodien Chapter 5 Behind Xenophobia in South Africa – Poverty or Inequality? – Stephen Gelb Chapter 6 Relative Deprivation, Social Instability and Cultures of Entitlement – Devan Pillay Chapter 7 Violence, Condemnation, and the Meaning of Living in South Africa – Loren B Landau Chapter 8 Crossing Borders – David Coplan Chapter 9 Policing Xenophobia – Xenophobic Policing: A Clash of Legitimacy – Julia Hornberger Chapter 10 Housing Delivery, the Urban Crisis and Xenophobia – Melinda Silverman and Tanya Zack Chapter 11 Two Newspapers, Two Nations? The Media and the Xenophobic Violence – Anton Harber Chapter 12 Beyond Citizenship: Human Rights and Democracy – Cathi Albertyn Chapter 13 We Are Not All Like That: Race, Class and Nation after Apartheid – Andile Mngxitama Chapter 14 Brutal Inheritances: Echoes, Negrophobia and Masculinist Violence – Pumla Dineo Gqola Chapter 15 Constructing the ‘Other’: Learning from the Ivorian Example – Véronique Tadjo End Notes Author Biographies

Go Home or Die Here
Tawana Kupe
2h00min00
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The xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what profound social malaise is xenophobia – and the violence that it inspires – a symptom? Have our economic and political choices created new forms of exclusion that fuel anger and distrust? What consequences does the emergence of xenophobia hold for the idea of an equal, non-racial society as symbolised by a democratic South Africa? Go Home or Die Here hopes to make sense of the nuances and trajectories of building a democratic society out of a deeply divided and conflictual past, in the conditions of global recession, heightening inequalities and future uncertainty. The authors hoped to pose questions that would lead both to research and to more informed, reflective forms of public action. With extensive photographs by award-winning photographer Alon Skuy, who covered the violence for The Times newspaper, the volume is passionate and engaged, and aims to stimulate reflection, debate and activism among concerned members of a broad public.Foreword – Bishop Paul Verryn Introduction – Eric Worby, Shireen Hassim and Tawana Kupe Chapter 1 A Torn Narrative of Violence – Alex Eliseev Chapter 2 I Did Not Expect Such a Thing to Happen – Rolf Maruping Chapter 3 (Dis)connections: Elite and Popular ‘Common Sense’ on the Matter of ‘Foreigners’ – Daryl Glaser Chapter 4 Xenophobia in Alexandra – Noor Nieftagodien Chapter 5 Behind Xenophobia in South Africa – Poverty or Inequality? – Stephen Gelb Chapter 6 Relative Deprivation, Social Instability and Cultures of Entitlement – Devan Pillay Chapter 7 Violence, Condemnation, and the Meaning of Living in South Africa – Loren B Landau Chapter 8 Crossing Borders – David Coplan Chapter 9 Policing Xenophobia – Xenophobic Policing: A Clash of Legitimacy – Julia Hornberger Chapter 10 Housing Delivery, the Urban Crisis and Xenophobia – Melinda Silverman and Tanya Zack Chapter 11 Two Newspapers, Two Nations? The Media and the Xenophobic Violence – Anton Harber Chapter 12 Beyond Citizenship: Human Rights and Democracy – Cathi Albertyn Chapter 13 We Are Not All Like That: Race, Class and Nation after Apartheid – Andile Mngxitama Chapter 14 Brutal Inheritances: Echoes, Negrophobia and Masculinist Violence – Pumla Dineo Gqola Chapter 15 Constructing the ‘Other’: Learning from the Ivorian Example – Véronique Tadjo End Notes Author Biographies

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Affiche du document Do South Africans Exist? — Do South Africans Exist?
Ivor Chipkin
1h30min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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120 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h30min.
Do South Africans Exist? Addresses a gap in contemporary studies of nationalism and the nation, providing a critical study of South African nationalism, against a broader context of African nationalism in general. The author argues that the nation is a politcal community whose form is given in relation to the pursuit of democracy and freedom, and that if democratic authoriy is lodged in 'the people', what matters is the way that this 'people' is defined, delimited and produced.Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Introduction: The Sublime Object of Nationalism Chapter 1: The Nature of African Nationalism Chapter 2: The Democratic Origin of Nations Chapter 3: African Nationalism in South Africa Chapter 4: The South African Nation Chapter 5: The Impossibility of the National Community Chapter 6: The Production of the Public Domain Chapter 7: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Identity of ‘the People’ Conclusion: Notes Towards a Theory of the Democratic Limit Endnotes Bibliography Index

Do South Africans Exist?
Ivor Chipkin
1h30min00
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Do South Africans Exist? Addresses a gap in contemporary studies of nationalism and the nation, providing a critical study of South African nationalism, against a broader context of African nationalism in general. The author argues that the nation is a politcal community whose form is given in relation to the pursuit of democracy and freedom, and that if democratic authoriy is lodged in 'the people', what matters is the way that this 'people' is defined, delimited and produced.Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Introduction: The Sublime Object of Nationalism Chapter 1: The Nature of African Nationalism Chapter 2: The Democratic Origin of Nations Chapter 3: African Nationalism in South Africa Chapter 4: The South African Nation Chapter 5: The Impossibility of the National Community Chapter 6: The Production of the Public Domain Chapter 7: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Identity of ‘the People’ Conclusion: Notes Towards a Theory of the Democratic Limit Endnotes Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Civilising Grass — Civilising Grass
Jonathan Cane
2h12min45
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Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship between landscape and power in the country’s colonial, modernist and post-apartheid eras. Drawing from eco-criticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies, this book offers a lively and provocative reading of texts and illustrations to reveal the racial and gendered aspects of ‘natural’ environments. It argues that the lawn, an ordinary and often overlooked feature of South African everyday life, is neither natural nor innocent. Rather, like other colonial landscapes, the lawn functions as a site of commonplace violence, of oppression, dispossession and segregation. This book explores an eclectic archive of artistic, literary and architectural lawns between 1886 and 2017, analysing poems, maps, gardening blogs, adverts, ethnographies and ephemera, as well as literature by Koos Prinsloo, Marlene van Niekerk and Ivan Vladislavić. In addition, Civilising Grass includes colour reproductions of lawn artworks by David Goldblatt, Lungiswa Gqunta, Pieter Hugo, Anton Kannemeyer, Sabelo Mlangeni, Moses Tladi and Kemang Wa Lehulere. Examination of these and other works reveals the organic relationship between lawn and wildness, and between lawn and human/non-human actors – thereby providing rich and unexpected insights into South African society past and present.List of Plates Acknowledgements Author’s Note Introduction: The Lawn is Singing Chapter 1 The Lawn Discourse Chapter 2 Keeping the Lawn Chapter 3 Planning the Modern Lawn Chapter 4 No Fucking up/on the Lawn Conclusion: Saddening the Green Notes References Index

Civilising Grass
Jonathan Cane
2h12min45
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Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship between landscape and power in the country’s colonial, modernist and post-apartheid eras. Drawing from eco-criticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies, this book offers a lively and provocative reading of texts and illustrations to reveal the racial and gendered aspects of ‘natural’ environments. It argues that the lawn, an ordinary and often overlooked feature of South African everyday life, is neither natural nor innocent. Rather, like other colonial landscapes, the lawn functions as a site of commonplace violence, of oppression, dispossession and segregation. This book explores an eclectic archive of artistic, literary and architectural lawns between 1886 and 2017, analysing poems, maps, gardening blogs, adverts, ethnographies and ephemera, as well as literature by Koos Prinsloo, Marlene van Niekerk and Ivan Vladislavić. In addition, Civilising Grass includes colour reproductions of lawn artworks by David Goldblatt, Lungiswa Gqunta, Pieter Hugo, Anton Kannemeyer, Sabelo Mlangeni, Moses Tladi and Kemang Wa Lehulere. Examination of these and other works reveals the organic relationship between lawn and wildness, and between lawn and human/non-human actors – thereby providing rich and unexpected insights into South African society past and present.List of Plates Acknowledgements Author’s Note Introduction: The Lawn is Singing Chapter 1 The Lawn Discourse Chapter 2 Keeping the Lawn Chapter 3 Planning the Modern Lawn Chapter 4 No Fucking up/on the Lawn Conclusion: Saddening the Green Notes References Index

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Affiche du document Cape Radicals — Cape Radicals
Crain Soudien
1h28min30
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In 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Non-European Unity Movement, among them Isaac Tabata, Ben Kies, A C Jordan, Phyllis Ntantala and Mda Mda, embarked on a public education and cultural project they called the New Era Fellowship (NEF). Taking a position of non-collaboration and non-racialism, the NEF played a vital role in challenging society’s responses to events ranging from the problem of taking up arms during the Second World War for an empire intent on stripping black people of their human rights to the Hertzog Bills, which foreshadowed apartheid. The group included some of the city’s most talented scholar-activists, whose aim was to disrupt and challenge not only prevailing political narratives but the very premises – class and race – on which they were based. By the 1950s their ideas had spread to a second generation of talented individuals who would disseminate them in the high schools of Cape Town. In time, some would exert their influence on national politics beyond the confines of the Cape. The Cape Radicals is a testament to the NEF’s position at the forefront of redefining the discourse of racialism and nationalism in South Africa.Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 A Battle of Ideas Chapter 2 Planters of the Seed Chapter 3 ‘Anything Under the Sun’ – The Formation of the NEF Chapter 4 Honest, Sincere and Fearless – 1937-1940 Chapter 5 The Road to Emancipation – 1940-1953 Chapter 6 A Cauldron of Conflict Chapter 7 Legacy Notes List of Illustrations Bibliography Index

Cape Radicals
Crain Soudien
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In 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Non-European Unity Movement, among them Isaac Tabata, Ben Kies, A C Jordan, Phyllis Ntantala and Mda Mda, embarked on a public education and cultural project they called the New Era Fellowship (NEF). Taking a position of non-collaboration and non-racialism, the NEF played a vital role in challenging society’s responses to events ranging from the problem of taking up arms during the Second World War for an empire intent on stripping black people of their human rights to the Hertzog Bills, which foreshadowed apartheid. The group included some of the city’s most talented scholar-activists, whose aim was to disrupt and challenge not only prevailing political narratives but the very premises – class and race – on which they were based. By the 1950s their ideas had spread to a second generation of talented individuals who would disseminate them in the high schools of Cape Town. In time, some would exert their influence on national politics beyond the confines of the Cape. The Cape Radicals is a testament to the NEF’s position at the forefront of redefining the discourse of racialism and nationalism in South Africa.Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 A Battle of Ideas Chapter 2 Planters of the Seed Chapter 3 ‘Anything Under the Sun’ – The Formation of the NEF Chapter 4 Honest, Sincere and Fearless – 1937-1940 Chapter 5 The Road to Emancipation – 1940-1953 Chapter 6 A Cauldron of Conflict Chapter 7 Legacy Notes List of Illustrations Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Like Family — Like Family
Ena Jansen
2h27min00
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196 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h27min.
More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue to occupy a central place in South African society. But it is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. ‘Like family’ they may be, but they and their employers know they can never be real family. Ena Jansen offers a historical perspective that shows how domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. To support her argument, Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans. Later texts by black authors offer wry and subversive insights into the madam/maid nexus, capturing paradoxes relating to shifting power relationships. Soos familie, the award-winning Afrikaans predecessor of the updated Like Family, was published in 2015 and the highly-acclaimed Dutch translation Bijna familie in 2016.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to Readers Introduction Searching the archive Chapter 1 Domestic workers in South Africa Chapter 2 Enslaved women at the Cape – Precursors to the culture of domestic work Chapter 3 Migrant women and domestic work in the city Chapter 4 Legislation governing the lives of urban women Chapter 5 Domestic workers in personal accounts Chapter 6 Testimonies of domestic workers – Interviews, stories and a novel Chapter 7 Domestic workers and children Chapter 8 Domestic workers and sexuality Chapter 9 Domestic workers in times of political unrest and protest Chapter 10 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by white authors Chapter 11 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by black authors Chapter 12 Domestic workers on the threshold Bibliography Index

Like Family
Ena Jansen
2h27min00
Etudes littéraires
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196 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h27min.
More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. These nannies, housekeepers and chars continue to occupy a central place in South African society. But it is an ambivalent position. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich and poor, white and black, these women are at once intimately connected and at a distant remove from the families they serve. ‘Like family’ they may be, but they and their employers know they can never be real family. Ena Jansen offers a historical perspective that shows how domestic worker relations in South Africa were shaped by the institution of slavery at the Cape. To support her argument, Jansen examines the representation of domestic workers in a diverse range of texts in English and Afrikaans. Later texts by black authors offer wry and subversive insights into the madam/maid nexus, capturing paradoxes relating to shifting power relationships. Soos familie, the award-winning Afrikaans predecessor of the updated Like Family, was published in 2015 and the highly-acclaimed Dutch translation Bijna familie in 2016.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note to Readers Introduction Searching the archive Chapter 1 Domestic workers in South Africa Chapter 2 Enslaved women at the Cape – Precursors to the culture of domestic work Chapter 3 Migrant women and domestic work in the city Chapter 4 Legislation governing the lives of urban women Chapter 5 Domestic workers in personal accounts Chapter 6 Testimonies of domestic workers – Interviews, stories and a novel Chapter 7 Domestic workers and children Chapter 8 Domestic workers and sexuality Chapter 9 Domestic workers in times of political unrest and protest Chapter 10 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by white authors Chapter 11 Domestic workers in post-apartheid novels by black authors Chapter 12 Domestic workers on the threshold Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Dance of the Dung Beetles — Dance of the Dung Beetles
Helen Lunn
1h58min30
Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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158 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h58min.
The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvellous creature: the 6 000 species identified so far are intricately entwined with human history and scientific endeavour. These night-soil collectors of the planet have been worshipped as gods, worn as jewellery, and painted by artists. Ecologically, they saved Hawai’i from environmental blight, and rescued Australia from plagues of flies. They fertilise soil, cleanse pastures, steer by the stars, and have a unique relationship with the African elephant (along with many other ungulates). Above all, they are the ideal subject for biological study in an evolving world. This entertaining outline of the development of science from the beetle’s perspective will enchant general readers and entomologists alike.Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One When the dung beetle wore golden shoes Chapter Two Crawling out of the darkness Chapter Three Joining the dots Chapter Four Colonising insects Chapter Five Of elephants and dung beetles Chapter Six Tribes with human attributes Chapter Seven Design construction first Conclusion: ‘What a wonderful world’ Appendices Select bibliography Index

Dance of the Dung Beetles
Helen Lunn
1h58min30
Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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158 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h58min.
The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvellous creature: the 6 000 species identified so far are intricately entwined with human history and scientific endeavour. These night-soil collectors of the planet have been worshipped as gods, worn as jewellery, and painted by artists. Ecologically, they saved Hawai’i from environmental blight, and rescued Australia from plagues of flies. They fertilise soil, cleanse pastures, steer by the stars, and have a unique relationship with the African elephant (along with many other ungulates). Above all, they are the ideal subject for biological study in an evolving world. This entertaining outline of the development of science from the beetle’s perspective will enchant general readers and entomologists alike.Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One When the dung beetle wore golden shoes Chapter Two Crawling out of the darkness Chapter Three Joining the dots Chapter Four Colonising insects Chapter Five Of elephants and dung beetles Chapter Six Tribes with human attributes Chapter Seven Design construction first Conclusion: ‘What a wonderful world’ Appendices Select bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Conspicuous Consumption in Africa — Conspicuous Consumption in Africa
Ilana Wyk
1h47min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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143 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h47min.
From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob Zuma, funerals of big men in Cameroon, youth cultures of consumption in Niger and South Africa, queer consumption in Cape Town, middle-class food consumption in Durban and the consumption of luxury handcrafted beads, this collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts and historical moments. The essays in Conspicuous Consumption in Africa put Thorstein Veblen’s concept under robust critical scrutiny, delving into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, generational, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices, textures and relations. This volume shows how central and revealing conspicuous consumption can be to fathoming the history of Africa’s projects of modernity, and their global lineages and legacies. In its grounded, up-close case studies, it is likely to feed into current public debates on the nature and future of African societies – South African society in particular.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Chapter 1 Thinking with Veblen: Case Studies from Africa’s Past and Present - Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk Chapter 2 Changes in the Order of Things: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Cape Town – Deborah Posel Chapter 3 Conspicuously Public: Gendered Histories of Sartorial and Social Success in Urban Togo – Nina Sylvanus Chapter 4 Etienne Rousseau, Broedertwis and the Politics of Consumption within Afrikanerdom – Stephen Sparks Chapter 5 Recycling Consumption: Political Power and Elite Wealth in Angola – Claudia Gastrow Chapter 6 Chiluba’s Trunks: Consumption, Excess and the Body Politic in Zambia – Karen Tranberg Hansen Chapter 7 Jacob Zuma’s Shamelessness: Conspicuous Consumption, Politics and Religion – Ilana van Wyk Chapter 8 Precarious ‘Bigness’: A ‘Big Man’, his Women and his Funeral in Cameroon – Rogers Orock Chapter 9 Young Men of Leisure? Youth, Conspicuous Consumption and the Performativity of Dress in Niger – Adeline Masquelier Chapter 10 Booty on Fire: Looking at Izikhothane with Thorstein Veblen – Jabulani G Mnisi Chapter 11 Conspicuous Queer Consumption: Emulation and Honour in the Pink Map – Bradley Rink Chapter 12 The Politics and Moral Economy of Middle-Class Consumption in South Africa – Sophie Chevalier Chapter 13 Marigold Beads: Who Needs Diamonds?! – Joni Brenner and Pamila Gupta Contributors Index

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa
Ilana Wyk
1h47min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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143 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h47min.
From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob Zuma, funerals of big men in Cameroon, youth cultures of consumption in Niger and South Africa, queer consumption in Cape Town, middle-class food consumption in Durban and the consumption of luxury handcrafted beads, this collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts and historical moments. The essays in Conspicuous Consumption in Africa put Thorstein Veblen’s concept under robust critical scrutiny, delving into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, generational, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices, textures and relations. This volume shows how central and revealing conspicuous consumption can be to fathoming the history of Africa’s projects of modernity, and their global lineages and legacies. In its grounded, up-close case studies, it is likely to feed into current public debates on the nature and future of African societies – South African society in particular.Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Chapter 1 Thinking with Veblen: Case Studies from Africa’s Past and Present - Deborah Posel and Ilana van Wyk Chapter 2 Changes in the Order of Things: Department Stores and the Making of Modern Cape Town – Deborah Posel Chapter 3 Conspicuously Public: Gendered Histories of Sartorial and Social Success in Urban Togo – Nina Sylvanus Chapter 4 Etienne Rousseau, Broedertwis and the Politics of Consumption within Afrikanerdom – Stephen Sparks Chapter 5 Recycling Consumption: Political Power and Elite Wealth in Angola – Claudia Gastrow Chapter 6 Chiluba’s Trunks: Consumption, Excess and the Body Politic in Zambia – Karen Tranberg Hansen Chapter 7 Jacob Zuma’s Shamelessness: Conspicuous Consumption, Politics and Religion – Ilana van Wyk Chapter 8 Precarious ‘Bigness’: A ‘Big Man’, his Women and his Funeral in Cameroon – Rogers Orock Chapter 9 Young Men of Leisure? Youth, Conspicuous Consumption and the Performativity of Dress in Niger – Adeline Masquelier Chapter 10 Booty on Fire: Looking at Izikhothane with Thorstein Veblen – Jabulani G Mnisi Chapter 11 Conspicuous Queer Consumption: Emulation and Honour in the Pink Map – Bradley Rink Chapter 12 The Politics and Moral Economy of Middle-Class Consumption in South Africa – Sophie Chevalier Chapter 13 Marigold Beads: Who Needs Diamonds?! – Joni Brenner and Pamila Gupta Contributors Index

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Affiche du document Writing the Ancestral River — Writing the Ancestral River
Jacklyn Cock
1h28min30
Histoire
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118 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h28min.
Writing the Ancestral River is a biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape. This river runs through a formative meeting ground of different peoples who have shaped South Africa’s history: Khoikhoi herders, Xhosa pastoralists, Dutch trekboers and British settlers. Their descendants continue to live there and interact in ways that have been decisively shaped by their shared history. This is a social and natural history of the river and its catchment area, where dinosaurs once roamed and cycads still grow. The Kowie has felt the effects of human settlement, most strikingly through the establishment of a harbour at the mouth of the river in the 19th century and the development of a marina in the late 20th century, which have had a significant negative impact. The book raises questions about colonialism, capitalism, ‘development’ and ecology, and considers the connections between social and environmental justice and injustice. People are increasingly reconnecting with nature and justice through rivers. Unlike dams, oceans and lakes, rivers have a destination and we can learn from the strength and certainty with which they travel. Acknowledging the past, and the inter-generational, racialised privileges, damages and denials it established and perpetuates, is necessary for any shared future.Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Motivations Chapter 2 The Kowie River Chapter 3 The Battle Chapter 4 The Harbour Chapter 5 The Marina Chapter 6 Connecting Nature and Justice through Rivers Appendix Notes Glossary of isiXhosa Terms List of Figures Bibliography Index

Writing the Ancestral River
Jacklyn Cock
1h28min30
Histoire
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118 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h28min.
Writing the Ancestral River is a biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape. This river runs through a formative meeting ground of different peoples who have shaped South Africa’s history: Khoikhoi herders, Xhosa pastoralists, Dutch trekboers and British settlers. Their descendants continue to live there and interact in ways that have been decisively shaped by their shared history. This is a social and natural history of the river and its catchment area, where dinosaurs once roamed and cycads still grow. The Kowie has felt the effects of human settlement, most strikingly through the establishment of a harbour at the mouth of the river in the 19th century and the development of a marina in the late 20th century, which have had a significant negative impact. The book raises questions about colonialism, capitalism, ‘development’ and ecology, and considers the connections between social and environmental justice and injustice. People are increasingly reconnecting with nature and justice through rivers. Unlike dams, oceans and lakes, rivers have a destination and we can learn from the strength and certainty with which they travel. Acknowledging the past, and the inter-generational, racialised privileges, damages and denials it established and perpetuates, is necessary for any shared future.Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Motivations Chapter 2 The Kowie River Chapter 3 The Battle Chapter 4 The Harbour Chapter 5 The Marina Chapter 6 Connecting Nature and Justice through Rivers Appendix Notes Glossary of isiXhosa Terms List of Figures Bibliography Index

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Affiche du document Tshepang — Tshepang
Lara Foot Newton
49min30
Divers
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66 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 49min.
This searing and compassionate play is inspired by the true case of Baby Tshepang who was brutally raped and which brought to light thousands of similar incidents in South Africa. Weaving together ‘twenty thousand stories’ (the number of reported child rapes in South Africa each year), Tshepang – The Third Testament tells a story of love, forgiveness and the difficulties of coming to terms with a violation of this magnitude. Lara Foot Newton’s play is a committed act of remembrance.Author’s note – Lara Foot Newton vii Designer’s note – Gerhard Marx ix Foreword – Adrienne Sichel xiii Introduction – Tony Hamburger 1 Tshepang The Third Testament

Tshepang
Lara Foot Newton
49min30
Divers
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66 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 49min.
This searing and compassionate play is inspired by the true case of Baby Tshepang who was brutally raped and which brought to light thousands of similar incidents in South Africa. Weaving together ‘twenty thousand stories’ (the number of reported child rapes in South Africa each year), Tshepang – The Third Testament tells a story of love, forgiveness and the difficulties of coming to terms with a violation of this magnitude. Lara Foot Newton’s play is a committed act of remembrance.Author’s note – Lara Foot Newton vii Designer’s note – Gerhard Marx ix Foreword – Adrienne Sichel xiii Introduction – Tony Hamburger 1 Tshepang The Third Testament

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