Author: Roshila Nair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Nozipho January-Bardill
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 158

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Author: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431403253
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Metropolises often evoke images of flashy high-rise buildings, permanent background noise, backed-up cars and people moving quickly in all directions in their masses. New York, Tokyo, London, Sao Paulo. But what about Cairo?

Author: Aili Piano
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742536456
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Freedom in the World contains both comparative ratings and written narratives and is now the standard reference work for measuring the progress and decline in political rights and civil liberties on a global basis.

Author: Sarah Nuttall
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381214
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the experience of “city-ness” and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. Turning its back on rigid rationalities of planning and racial separation, Johannesburg has become a place of intermingling and improvisation, a city that is fast developing its own brand of cosmopolitan culture. The volume’s essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg’s cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anticolonial projects of Mohandas Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces, including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, built spaces, and life for foreigners in the city. Contributors: Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge, Lindsay Bremner, David Bunn, Fred de Vries, Nsizwa Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Stefan Helgesson, Julia Hornberger, Jonathan Hyslop, Grace Khunou, Frédéric Le Marcis, Xavier Livermon, John Matshikiza, Achille Mbembe, Robert Muponde, Sarah Nuttall, Tom Odhiambo, Achal Prabhala, AbdouMaliq Simone

Author: Nadine Dolby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135915202
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This collection of original essays focuses attention on the actual practices of twenty-first century youth in the brave new world of globalization, addressing the possibilities and dangers of young people's transnational, commodified identities.

Author: Filomena Maggino
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319205684
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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This Festschrift is published in honor of Alex C. Michalos, a great scholar and inspiration to many upcoming and famous academics and practitioners. The Festschrift celebrates his lifelong, outstanding scientific and cultural contribution to Quality of Life Research. It contains contributions written by the most prestigious and renowned scholars in the field of social indicators research and quality of life studies. Taken together, the contributions from scholars around the world reflect Michalos’ stance that even though there may be differences in individual scientific positions, the language in the field of quality of life has no limits and boundaries.

Author: South African Human Rights Commission
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780620363648
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Author: Sarah Nuttall
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1868146324
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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This original book is a much needed and far reaching exploration of post-apartheid South African life worlds. Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present. The author explores the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting. In the process, she moves away from a persistent apartheid optic, drawing on ideas of sameness and difference, and their limits, in order to elicit ways of living and imagining that are just starting to take shape and for which we might not yet have a name. In the background of her investigations lies a preoccupation with a future-oriented politics, one that builds on largely unexplored terrains of mutuality while being attentive to a historical experience of confrontation and injury.

Author: David Beetham
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
ISBN: 9291423661
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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