Download or read book Bastaards Or Humans written by Ruben Robert Richards and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 is the product of a personal enquiry by the author into three simple, profound and recurring questions which we all encounter: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? The end result is a road map through especially the last 400 to 500 years of socio-cultural history in South Africa with special emphasis on how the South African people who were called 'coloured' came into being - so named by the white colonial and apartheid system which ruled and dominated South Africa for almost 400 years. Volume 1 is made up of three distinct thematic sections - (1) Ownership to Alienation, (2) Collateral Damage and Disintegration, and (3) Rebuilding a New Future. Section One, Ownership to Alienation, comprises 10 chapters which set the stage and context in which to grapple with coloured identity and heritage through the lenses of colonial strategy as implemented by the respective colonial empires for the past 400 to 500 years of South African history. Section Two, Collateral Damage and Disintegration, comprises eight chapters which track and trace the demise and growing invisibility of coloured people at various levels of society. Topics addressed here include gangsterism, business and a debate about whether there are too many coloureds in Cape Town and should rather be spread out across the country in terms of employment equity. Section Three, Rebuilding a new future, comprises seven chapters which are deliberately restorative in focus. They are also intensely personal and, therefore, auto-ethnographic in orientation. The section is forward-looking with reference to nation-building and claiming the future rather than remaining stuck in the past.
Download or read book Khoisan Consciousness written by Rafael Verbuyst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on unprecedented ethnographic fieldwork among ‘Khoisan revivalists’ in Cape Town, this book explores how and why the past is engaged with to revive an indigenous culture and identity that are widely believed to have vanished during colonialism and apartheid.
Download or read book Bastaards Or Humans written by Ruben Robert Richards and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geography of Time Place Movement and Networks Volume 2 written by Stanley D. Brunn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Historians in Public written by Berber Bevernage and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decades public interest in history is booming. This creates new opportunities but also challenges for professional historians. This book asks how historians deal with changing public demands for history and how these affect their professional practices, values and identities. The volume offers a great variety of detailed studies of cases where historians have applied their expertise outside the academic sphere. With contributions focusing on Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe the book has a broad geographical scope. Subdivided in five sections, the book starts with a critical look back on some historians who broke with mainstream academic positions by combining their professional activities with an explicit political partisanship or social engagement. The second section focusses on the challenges historians are confronted with when entering the court room or more generally exposing their expertise to legal frameworks. The third section focuses on the effects of policy driven demands as well as direct political interventions and regulations on the historical profession. A fourth section looks at the challenges and opportunities related to the rise of new digital media. Finally several authors offer their view on normative standards that may help to better respond to new demands and to define role models for publicly engaged historians. This book aims at historians and other academics interested in public uses of history.
Download or read book Bastaards Or Humans written by Ruben Robert Richards and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trading Justice for Peace written by Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict in its various manifestations continues to be a defining feature in many places throughout the world. In an attempt to address such conflict, various forms of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) have been introduced to facilitate the transition from social conflict to a new dispensation. The introduction and subsequent proceedings of TRCs in South Africa, Canada and Norway are widely regarded as good examples of this approach. Against this background, a number of researchers from VID Specialized University and the University of the Western Cape had an exploratory meeting in Oslo in 2018 where the possibility for a joint research project under the broad theme of ‘discourses on reconciliation’ was first discussed. This led to two further research symposia in Cape Town and Tromsø in 2019. With the inclusion of specialists working on the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation process, these meetings demonstrated common ground and a shared understanding of the issues at stake. Moreover, it pointed to the differences between the South African, Canadian and Norwegian Commissions. In comparing the South African, Canadian and Norwegian experiences, researchers identified that these countries were, in fact, at different stages of their respective truth and reconciliation processes. This has prompted scholars to revisit and problematise these processes in relation to ongoing societal challenges. In all cases, it is quite apparent that reconciliation between individuals and groups remains a significant challenge.
Download or read book Genetica written by Johannes Paulus Lotsy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Boekbesprekingen."
Download or read book The Framework of Human Behaviour written by Julian Blackburn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume III of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. First published in 1947, this study looks at the culture-pattern theory.
Download or read book Man s Most Dangerous Myth The Fallacy of Race written by Ashley Montagu and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DR. ASHLEY MONTAGU’S book possesses two great merits rarely found in current discussions of human problems. Where most writers over-simplify, he insists on the principle of multiple and interlocking causation. And where most assume that “facts will speak for themselves,” he makes it clear that facts are mere ventriloquists’ dummies, and can be made to justify any course of action that appeals to the socially conditioned passions of the individuals concerned. These two truths are sufficiently obvious; but they are seldom recognized, for the good reason that they are very depressing. To recognize the first truth is to recognize the fact that there are no panaceas and that therefore most of the golden promises made by political reformers and revolutionaries are illusory. And to recognize the truth that facts do not speak for themselves, but only as man’s socially conditioned passions dictate, is to recognize that our current educational processes can do very little to ameliorate the state of the world. In the language of traditional theology (so much more realistic, in many respects, than the “liberal” philosophies which replaced it), most ignorance is voluntary and depends upon acts of the conscious or subconscious will. Thus, the fallacies underlying the propaganda of racial hatred are not recognized because, as Dr. Montagu points out, most people have a desire to act aggressively, and the members of other ethnic groups are convenient victims, whom one may attack with a good conscience. This desire to act aggressively has its origins in the largely unavoidable frustrations imposed upon the individual by the processes of early education and later adjustments to the social environment. Dr. Montagu might have added that aggressiveness pays a higher dividend in emotional satisfaction than does coöperation. Coöperation may produce a mild emotional glow; but the indulgence of aggressivness can be the equivalent of a drinking bout or sexual orgy. In our industrial societies, the goodness of life is measured in terms of the number and intensity of the excitements experienced. (Popular philosophy is moulded by, and finds expression in, the advertising pages of popular magazines. Significantly enough, the word that occurs more frequently in those pages than any other is “thrill.”) Like sex and alcohol, aggressiveness can give enormous thrills. Under existing social conditions, it is therefore easy to represent aggressiveness as good. Concerning the remedies for the social diseases he has so penetratingly diagnosed, Dr. Montagu says very little, except that they will have to consist in some process of education. But what process? It is to be hoped that he will answer this question at length in another work. ALDOUS HUXLEY
Download or read book Citizenship Belonging and Political Community in Africa written by Emma Hunter and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience. Yet studies of citizenship in Africa have often tended to foreshorten historical time and privilege the present at the expense of the deeper past. Citizenship, Belonging, and Political Community in Africa provides a critical reflection on citizenship in Africa by bringing together scholars working with very different case studies and with very different understandings of what is meant by citizenship. By bringing historians and social scientists into dialogue within the same volume, it argues that a revised reading of the past can offer powerful new perspectives on the present, in ways that might also indicate new paths for the future. The project collects the works of up-and-coming and established scholars from around the globe. Presenting case studies from such wide-ranging countries as Sudan, Mauritius, South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ethiopia, the essays delve into the many facets of citizenship and agency as they have been expressed in the colonial and postcolonial eras. In so doing, they engage in exciting ways with the watershed book in the field, Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject. Contributors: Samantha Balaton-Chrimes, Frederick Cooper, Solomon M. Gofie, V. Adefemi Isumonah, Cherry Leonardi, John Lonsdale, Eghosa E.Osaghae, Ramola Ramtohul, Aidan Russell, Nicole Ulrich, Chris Vaughan, and Henri-Michel Yéré.
Download or read book The English People Overseas written by A. Wyatt Tilby and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonial South Africa Origins Racial Order written by Tim Keegan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a story that is strong in notable events -slave emancipation, the arrival of the 1820 British settlers, a series of frontier wars, the Great Trek of Boer emigrants - as well as in striking personalities, among them Dr John Philip, Andries Stockenstrom, John Fairbairn, Moshoeshoe and Sir Harry Smith. In Keegan's pages these familiar historical landmarks and characters emerge in entirely novel ways, the subject of fresh interpretations and original insights.
Download or read book Archival Theory Chronology and Interpretation of Rock Art in the Western Cape South Africa written by Siyakha Mguni and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advocates the archival capacity of rock art and uses archival perspectives to analyse the chronology of paintings in order to formulate a framework for their historicised interpretations.
Download or read book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 2904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 2906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Cyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
