Cape Town 2007

Cape Town 2007
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Publisher : Daimon
Total Pages : 1143
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ISBN-10 : 9783856307288
ISBN-13 : 3856307281
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Cape Town 2007 by : Pramila Bennett

The 17th Triannual Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in August 2007. The plenary presentations are printed in this volume. A CD with all the congress presentations and a selection of images is also included. Listed here are just a few of the many presentations: Journeys- Encounters Clinical, Communal, Cultural, by Joe Cambray; How Does One Speak of Social Psychology in a Nation in Transition?, by Mamphela Ramphele; Trauma, Forgiveness and the Witnessing Dance: Making Public Spaces Intimate, by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela; Shifting Shadows: Shaping Dynamics in the Cultural Unconscious, by Catherine Kaplinsky; Journey to the Center: Images of Wilderness and the Origins of the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts, by Graham S. Saayman; Panel: Prehistoric Rock Art: The Biped Surprised, by Christian Gaillard; and Harnessing the Brain: Vision and Shamanism in Upper Paleolithic Western Europe, by J.D. Lewis-Williams.

Parched - The Cape Town Drought Story

Parched - The Cape Town Drought Story
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9783030788896
ISBN-13 : 303078889X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Parched - The Cape Town Drought Story by : Gisela Kaiser

The book presents the history of water supply to Cape Town, leading up to the worst ever drought recorded, through political turmoil impacting on drought interventions and resulting in the adoption of an integrated water strategy. Regions reliant on water supply from rainfed dams have always been vulnerable to the impact of drought. This is exacerbated by the uncertainty of future rainfall, which is never guaranteed, and reliance is placed on modelling using historic data. While weather has always been variable, climate has been generally reliable. With anthropogenic activity causing changes in climate, the validity of modelling based on history is currently not fully trusted. Unless the storage capacity is sufficient to carry through numerous seasons of poor rainfall, even with water restrictions to match demand and supply in times of depleted rainfall, the risk of reservoirs running dry remains a threat.

Cape Town After Apartheid

Cape Town After Apartheid
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9780816670000
ISBN-13 : 0816670005
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Cape Town After Apartheid by : Tony Roshan Samara

Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.

OECD Territorial Reviews: Cape Town, South Africa 2008

OECD Territorial Reviews: Cape Town, South Africa 2008
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Publisher : OECD Publishing
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9789264049642
ISBN-13 : 9264049649
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis OECD Territorial Reviews: Cape Town, South Africa 2008 by : OECD

This report provides a platform for the development of a forward-looking, cross-cutting regional development strategy in Cape Town, South Africa and proposes new "second generation" governance reforms to consolidate previous achievements and respond to emerging obstacles.

Cross-national Performance Indicators

Cross-national Performance Indicators
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Publisher : African Minds
Total Pages : 77
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ISBN-10 : 9781920489557
ISBN-13 : 192048955X
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Cross-national Performance Indicators by : Ian Bunting

Zoo City

Zoo City
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Publisher : Mulholland Books
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9780316267939
ISBN-13 : 0316267937
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Zoo City by : Lauren Beukes

A new edition of Lauren Beukes's Arthur C Clarke Award-winning novel set in a world where murderers and other criminals acquire magical animals that are mystically bonded to them. Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding lost things. When a little old lady turns up dead and the cops confiscate her last paycheck, Zinzi's forced to take on her least favorite kind of job -- missing persons. Being hired by reclusive music producer Odi Huron to find a teenybop pop star should be her ticket out of Zoo City, the festering slum where the criminal underclass and their animal companions live in the shadow of hell's undertow. Instead, it catapults Zinzi deeper into the maw of a city twisted by crime and magic, where she'll be forced to confront the dark secrets of former lives -- including her own.

New Racial Missions of Policing

New Racial Missions of Policing
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9781317989035
ISBN-13 : 1317989031
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis New Racial Missions of Policing by : Paul Amar

This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices. It pushes analytical and theoretical boundaries by examining racialization and ethnicization in locations where the topic is politically taboo, such as in China, India and France, and where racial and ethnic hierarchies have supposedly been banished to the past, as in Bosnia and South Africa. This book also examines police and security services not as mere artefacts of state authority or the prerogatives of capitalist development, but as relatively autonomous and uniquely productive intersections of new kinds of state, social and cultural formations that are remaking race, embodiment, fear and control on their own terms. This book was published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Mbeki and After

Mbeki and After
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9781776141449
ISBN-13 : 177614144X
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Mbeki and After by : Daryl Glaser

For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and to the citizens of South Africa generally? This question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki’s legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current political landscape in South Africa, and Mbeki’s role in shaping it.

Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries

Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries
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Publisher : African Books Collective
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : 9781920677527
ISBN-13 : 1920677526
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Higher Education in Portuguese Speaking African Countries by : Vitorino Langa

This publication is the result of a baseline study of the state of the higher education systems in the five Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP): Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. The project was undertaken by an African international expert in the field of higher education studies and was fully sponsored and supported by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA). The report offers a historical overview of the development of higher education in PALOP from colonial times to the present. The main objective of this baseline study is to map the landscape and dynamics of change in the higher education systems of PALOP countries. It focuses on describing the latest developments of trends of expansion, financing, governance and policy reforms closely linked to the development of higher education systems in these countries. Furthermore, the study will facilitate an informed debate and the dissemination of knowledge on the role of higher education for development in Africa.

The Inheritors

The Inheritors
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 247
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ISBN-10 : 9781476725291
ISBN-13 : 1476725292
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Inheritors by : Eve Fairbanks

Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy. Dipuo grew up on the south side of a mine dump that segregated Johannesburg’s black townships from the white-only city. Some nights, she hiked to the top. To a South African teenager in the 1980s—even an anti-apartheid activist like Dipuo—the divide that separated her from the glittering lights on the other side appeared eternal. But in 1994, the world’s last explicit racial segregationist regime collapsed to make way for something unprecedented. With penetrating psychological insight, intimate reporting, and bewitching prose, The Inheritors tells the story of a country in the throes of a great reckoning. Through the lives of Dipuo, her daughter Malaika, and Christo—one of the last white South Africans drafted to fight for the apartheid regime—award-winning journalist Eve Fairbanks probes what happens when people once locked into certain kinds of power relations find their status shifting. Observing subtle truths about race and power that extend well beyond national borders, she explores questions that preoccupy so many of us today: How can we let go of our pasts, as individuals and as countries? How should historical debts be paid? And how can a person live an honorable life in a society that—for better or worse—they no longer recognize?