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Author | : Leo de Haan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2007-07-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9047420934 |
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This collection of articles aims to stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity and to go beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances by analyzing those initiatives that offer alternatives to the prevailing paradigms. It moves away from African ‘victimhood’ by stressing African ‘agency’ and by demonstrating that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced. This is further detailed in the context of the literary contest between local and global; of issues of land rights and property; of livelihoods and poverty; of the popular culture; of demystifying African migrations; the changing parameters of territoriality; and the dynamics of the tourist encounter.
Author | : Mohamed Suliman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Download Alternative Development Strategies for Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Patrick Chabal |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004161139 |
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To stimulate the exploration of African initiative and creativity beyond immediate socio-economic and political circumstances this book demonstrates that societies in Africa have always showed the ability to negotiate whatever constraining ecological, economic and political circumstances they faced.
Author | : Chrissie Bowie |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2021-08-23 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1928502229 |
Download Understanding Higher Education Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as decontextualised learners premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society.
Author | : Vishwas Satgar |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 177614208X |
Download The Climate Crisis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Essays that address the question: how can people and class agency change this destructive course of history? Capitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments and their international platforms such as the Paris Climate Agreement deliver too little, too late. Most states, including South Africa, continue on their carbon-intensive energy paths, with devastating results. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. This is the context in which we must ask ourselves: how can people and class agency change this destructive course of history? Volume three in the Democratic Marxism series, The Climate Crisis investigates eco-socialist alternatives that are emerging. It presents the thinking of leading climate justice activists, campaigners and social movements advancing systemic alternatives and developing bottom-up, just transitions to sustain life. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical work, the authors collectively examine the challenges and opportunities inherent in the current moment. This volume builds on the class-struggle focus of Volume 2 by placing ecological issues at the centre of democratic Marxism. Most importantly, it explores ways to renew historical socialism with democratic, eco-socialist alternatives to meet current challenges in South Africa and the world.
Author | : Institute for African Alternatives |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Distance education |
ISBN | : 9781870425254 |
Download Education in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ben Turok |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Download Alternative Development Strategies for Africa: Debt and democracy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Haroub Othman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Redie Bereketeab |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2020-09-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000199916 |
Download Alternatives to Neoliberal Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book critically interrogates the neoliberal peacebuilding and statebuilding model and proposes a popular progressive model centred around the lived realities of African societies. The neoliberal interventionist model assumed prominence and universal hegemony following the demise of state socialism at the end of the Cold War. However, this book argues that it is a primarily short-term, top-down approach that imposes Western norms and values on conflict and post-conflict societies. By contrast, the popular progressive model espoused by this book is based on stringent examination and analysis of the reality of the socio-economic development, structures, institutions, politics and cultures of developing societies. In doing so, it combines bottom-up and top-down, popular and elite, and long-term evolutionary processes of societal construction as a requisite for enduring peacebuilding and statebuilding. By comparing and contrasting the dominant neoliberal peacebuilding and statebuilding model with a popular progressive model, the book seeks to empower locals (both elites and masses) to sit in the driver’s seat and construct their own societies. As such, it is an important contribution to scholars, activists, policymakers, civil society organisations, NGOs and all those who are concerned with peace, stability and development across Africa and other developing countries.
Author | : Tushaar Shah |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Farms, Small |
ISBN | : 929090481X |
Download Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This report reviews several decades of global experience in transferring management of government-run irrigation systems to farmer associations or other nongovernmental agencies in an attempt to apply the lessons of success to the African smallholder irrigation context.