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Book Working Papers in Southern African Studies

Download or read book Working Papers in Southern African Studies written by D. C. Hindson and published by Raven Press (South Africa). This book was released on 1983 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Papers in Southern African Studies

Download or read book Working Papers in Southern African Studies written by D. C. Hindson and published by Raven Press (South Africa). This book was released on 1983 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Papers in Southern African Studies

Download or read book Working Papers in Southern African Studies written by P. L. Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working Papers in African Studies

Download or read book Working Papers in African Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Working papers in Southern African studies

Download or read book Working papers in Southern African studies written by P. L. Bonner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Balance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hein Marais
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2022-07-01
  • ISBN : 177614774X
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book In the Balance written by Hein Marais and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the need and prospects for a UBI As jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly fragile and unattainable basis for dignified life. This predicament, deepened by the COVID-19 pandemic, is sparking urgent debates about alternatives such as a universal basic income (UBI). Highly topical and distinctive in its approach, In the Balance: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Beyond is the most rounded and up-to-date examination yet of the need and prospects for a UBI in a global South setting such as South Africa. Hein Marais casts the debate about a UBI in the wider context of the dispossessing pressures of capitalism and the onrushing turmoil of global warming, pandemics and social upheaval. Marais surveys the meaning, history and appeal of a UBI before even-handedly weighing the case for and against such an intervention. The book explores the vexing questions a UBI raises about the relationship of paid work to social rights, about prevailing notions of entitlement and dependency, and the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. Along with cost estimates for different versions of a basic income in South Africa, it discusses financing options and lays out the social, economic and political implications. This incisive new book advances both our theoretical and practical understanding of the prospects for a UBI.

Book The Road to Democracy in South Africa  1970 1980

Download or read book The Road to Democracy in South Africa 1970 1980 written by South African Democracy Education Trust and published by Unisa Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: v. 3: The third volume in the series examines the role of anti-apartheid movements around the world. The global anti-apartheid movement was very successful in creating awareness of the liberation struggle in South Africa, and in contributing to the downfall of the apartheid government. This volume, in 2 parts, brings together analyses which in the main are written by activist scholars with deep roots in the movements and organizations they are writing about.

Book Regional Cooperation in Southern Africa

Download or read book Regional Cooperation in Southern Africa written by Bertil Odén and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1989 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conference in Harare, Zimbabwe in September 1988, arranged on the initiative of the Southern African Research Association (SADRA) and the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies (SIAS), aimed to initiate research and co-operation between Nordic and Southern African researchers.

Book We Are Fighting the World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary Kynoch
  • Publisher : Ohio University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 0821441566
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book We Are Fighting the World written by Gary Kynoch and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1940s, a violent African criminal society known as the Marashea has operated in and around South Africa’s gold mining areas. With thousands of members involved in drug smuggling, extortion, and kidnapping, the Marashea was more influential in the day-to-day lives of many black South Africans under apartheid than were agents of the state. These gangs remain active in South Africa. In We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947–1999, Gary Kynoch points to the combination of coercive force and administrative weakness that characterized the apartheid state. As long as crime and violence were contained within black townships and did not threaten adjacent white areas, township residents were largely left to fend for themselves. The Marashea’s ability to prosper during the apartheid era and its involvement in political conflict led directly to the violent crime epidemic that today plagues South Africa. Highly readable and solidly researched, We Are Fighting the World is critical to an understanding of South African society, past and present. This pioneering study challenges previous social history research on resistance, ethnicity, urban spaces, and gender in South Africa. Kynoch’s interviews with many current and former gang members give We Are Fighting the World an energy and a realism that are unparalleled in any other published work on gang violence in southern Africa.

Book On Durban s Docks

Download or read book On Durban s Docks written by Ralph Callebert and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new approach to the study of labor on the subcontinent and globally, questioning the relevance of the predominant wage labor paradigm for Africa and the Global South.

Book Colonialism and Welfare

Download or read book Colonialism and Welfare written by James Midgley and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Empire is part covered three centuries, five continents and onequarter of the world's population. Its legacy continues, shaping the societies and welfare policies of much of the modern world. In this book, for the first time, this legacy is explored and analysed. Colonialism and Welfare reveals that social welfare policies, often discriminatory, and challenging to those colonised were introduced and imposed by the ?mother country.' It highlights that there was great diversity in rationales and impacts across the empire, but past developments had a major impact on the development of much of the world's population. Contributions from every continent explore both the diversity and the common themes in the imperial experience. They examine the legacy of colonial welfare - a subject largely neglected by both historians of empire and social policy analysts. This original book shows that social welfare today cannot be understood without understanding the legacy of the British Empire. Academics, specialised students with an interest in comparative social policy, history of social policy, imperial history, colonialism, and contemporary third world social policy will find this book invaluable to their studies.

Book Troubled Regions and Failing States

Download or read book Troubled Regions and Failing States written by Kristian Berg Harpviken and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the phenomenon of state failure better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent may studies of regional security benefit from a focus on the capacities and vulnerabilities of the states involved? This title addresses these questions.

Book The Southern African Development Community  SADC  and the European Union  EU

Download or read book The Southern African Development Community SADC and the European Union EU written by Johannes Muntschick and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the emergence, institutional design and performance of SADC’s major integration projects in the issue areas of the economy, security and infrastructure. It provides in this way a profound assessment of the organization as a whole. The study shows that South Africa plays a regional key role as driver for integration while external influence of the EU is ambivalent in character because it unfolds a supportive or obstructive impact. The author argues that the EU gains influence over regional integration processes in the SADC on the basis of patterns of asymmetric interdependence and becomes a ‘game-changer’ insofar as it facilitates or impedes solutions to regional cooperation problems.

Book Policy  Politics and Poverty in South Africa

Download or read book Policy Politics and Poverty in South Africa written by Jeremy Seekings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and explains how and why these policies were adopted. The analysis offers lessons for the study of poverty elsewhere in the world.

Book Abraham Esau s War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Nasson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-02-13
  • ISBN : 9780521530590
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Abraham Esau s War written by Bill Nasson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the participation of black people in the conduct of the war, and their subsequent exclusion from the fruits of peace.

Book The Work of Repair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Cousins
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2023-06-06
  • ISBN : 1531503551
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Work of Repair written by Thomas Cousins and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity and profits. But life and sustenance are about much more than calories and machinic bodies. What is at stake is the nurturing of capacity across all domains of life—physical, relational, cosmological—in the form of amandla. An Nguni word meaning power, strength or capacity, amandla organizes ordinary concerns with one’s abilities to earn a wage, to strengthen one’s body, and to take care of others; it describes the potency of medicines and sexual vitality; and it captures a history of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle for freedom. The ordinary actions coordinated by and directed at amandla do not obscure the wounding effects of plantation labor or the long history of racial oppression, but rather form the basis of what the Algerian artist Kader Attia calls repair. In this captivating ethnography, Cousins examines how amandla, as the primary material of the work of repair, anchors ordinary scenes of living and working in and around the plantations. As a space of exploitation that enables the global paper and packaging industry to extract labor power, the plantation depends on the availability of creative action in ordinary life to capitalize on bodily capacity. The Work of Repair is a fine-grained exploration of the relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of KwaZulu-Natal, and the historical decompositions and reinventions of the milieu of those livelihoods and lives. Offering a fresh approach to the existential, ethical and political stakes of ethnography from and of late liberal South Africa, the book attends to urgent questions of postapartheid life: the fate of employment; the role of the state in providing welfare and access to treatment; the regulation of popular curatives; the queering of kinship; and the future of custom and its territories. Through detailed descriptions, Cousins explicates the important and fragile techniques that constitute the work of repair: the effort to augment one’s capacity in a way that draws on, acknowledges, and reimagines the wounds of history, keeping open the possibility of a future through and with others.

Book The Psychoanalytic Study of Society  V  18

Download or read book The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V 18 written by L. Bryce Boyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger); the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll); a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story (R. Boyer); the homosexual implications of Argentinean soccer (M. Suarez-Orozco); and the symbolism of a Malaysian religious festival (E. Fuller).