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Author |
: Colleen Higgs |
Publisher |
: African Books Collective |
Total Pages |
: 98 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781920397425 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1920397426 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Looking for Trouble and other Mostly Yeoville Stories by : Colleen Higgs
Looking for Trouble is a collection of short stories set in Yeoville from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The stories capture with a dark humour the lives of young people trying to make a go of things, given the constraints of the country and the volatile period. Most of the stories have been published in literary magazines or in collections in South Africa, the UK and Uganda.
Author |
: Sarah Charlton |
Publisher |
: Wits University Press |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781776143849 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1776143841 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politics and Community-Based Research by : Sarah Charlton
Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways This edited collection is built around the experiences of Yeoville Studio, a research initiative based at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Through themed, illustrated stories of the people and places of Yeoville, the book presents a nuanced portrait of the vibrance and complexity of a post-apartheid, peri-central neighbourhood that has often been characterised as a ‘slum’ in Johannesburg. These narratives are interwoven with theoretical chapters by scholars from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting on the empirical experiences of the Studio and examining academic research processes. These chapters unpack the engagement of the Studio in Yeoville, including issues of trust, the need to align policy with lived realities and social needs, the political dimensions of the knowledge produced and the ways in which this knowledge was, and could be used.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924070685890 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African Book Publishing Record by :
Author |
: Rian Malan |
Publisher |
: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2012-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802194831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802194834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lion Sleeps Tonight by : Rian Malan
An essay collection that offers “a fascinating glimpse of post-apartheid South Africa” from the bestselling author of My Traitor’s Heart (The Sunday Times). The Lion Sleeps Tonight is Rian Malan’s remarkable chronicle of South Africa’s halting steps and missteps, taken as blacks and whites try to build a new country. In the title story, Malan investigates the provenance of the world-famous song, recorded by Pete Seeger and REM among many others, which Malan traces back to a Zulu singer named Solomon Linda. He follows the trial of Winnie Mandela; he writes about the last Afrikaner, an old Boer woman who settled on the slopes of Mount Meru; he plunges into President Mbeki’s AIDS policies of the 1990s; and finally he tells the story of the Alcock brothers (sons of Neil and Creina whose heartbreaking story was told in My Traitor’s Heart), two white South Africans raised among the Zulu and fluent in their language and customs. The twenty-one essays collected here, combined with Malan’s sardonic interstitial commentary, offer a brilliantly observed portrait of contemporary South Africa; “a grimly realistic picture of a nation clinging desperately to hope” (The Guardian).
Author |
: John Marnell |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2021-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781776147137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1776147138 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seeking Sanctuary by : John Marnell
A glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ migrants in Johannesburg, in their own words Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories from fourteen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg, South Africa. The stories, diverse in scope, chronicle each narrator’s arduous journey to South Africa, and their corresponding movement towards self-love and self-acceptance. The narrators reveal their personal battles to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and gender identity, often in the face of violent persecution, and how they have carved out spaces of hope and belonging in their new home country. In these intimate testimonies, the narrators’ resilience in the midst of uncertain futures reveal the myriad ways in which LGBT Africans push back against unjust and unequal systems. Seeking Sanctuary makes a critical intervention by showing the complex interplay between homophobia and xenophobia in South Africa, and of the state of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) rights in Africa. By shedding light on the fraught connections between sexuality, faith and migration, this ground-breaking project also provides a model for religious communities who are working towards justice, diversity and inclusion.
Author |
: Jo Beall |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2014-10-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136549502 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136549501 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uniting a Divided City by : Jo Beall
For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violence, and rampant consumerism alongside grinding poverty, are projected onto this city as a microcosm of things to come. Decision-makers in cities worldwide have attempted to balance harsh fiscal and administrative realities with growing demands for political, economic and social justice. This book investigates pragmatic approaches to urban economic development, service delivery, spatial restructuring, environmental sustainability and institutional reform in Johannesburg. It explores the conditions and processes that are determining the city's transformation into a cosmopolitan metropole and magnet for the continent.
Author |
: Sammy Oke Akombi |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 130 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015074260731 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Woman who Ate Python and Other Stories by : Sammy Oke Akombi
Author |
: Pamela Jooste |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2011-10-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448111190 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448111196 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Frieda And Min by : Pamela Jooste
When Frieda first met Min, with her golden hair and ivory bones, what struck her most was that Min was wearing a pair of African sandals, the sort made out of old car tyres. She was a silent, unhappy girl, dumped on Frieda's exuberant family in Johannesburg for the summer of 1964 so that her mother could go off with her new husband. In a way, Min and Frieda were both outsiders - Min, raised in the bush by her idealistic doctor father, and Frieda, daughter of a poor Jewish saxophone player who lived almost on top of a native neighborhood. The two girls, thrown together - the 'white kaffir' and the poor Jewish girl - formed a strange but loyal friendship, a friendship that was to last even through the terrible years of oppression and betrayal during the time of South Africa under Apartheid.
Author |
: South Africa. Commission on Gender Equality. Information and Evaluation Workshop |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105073090719 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Report of the Commission on Gender Equality, Information and Evaluation Workshop, Gauteng Province, June 1998 by : South Africa. Commission on Gender Equality. Information and Evaluation Workshop
Author |
: Annie E. Coombes |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 674 |
Release |
: 2020-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781119642046 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1119642043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Museum Transformations by : Annie E. Coombes
MUSEUM TRANSFORMATIONS DECOLONIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION Edited By ANNIE E. COOMBES AND RUTH B. PHILLIPS Museum Transformations: Decolonization and Democratization addresses contemporary approaches to decolonization, greater democratization, and revisionist narratives in museum exhibition and program development around the world. The text explores how museums of art, history, and ethnography responded to deconstructive critiques from activists and poststructuralist and postcolonial theorists, and provided models for change to other types of museums and heritage sites. The volume's first set of essays discuss the role of the museum in the narration of difficult histories, and how altering the social attitudes and political structures that enable oppression requires the recognition of past histories of political and racial oppression and colonization in museums. Subsequent essays consider the museum's new roles in social action and discuss experimental projects that work to change power dynamics within institutions and leverage digital technology and new media.