African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development
Author : Muchie Mammo
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781909112094
BRICS and Resistance in Africa
Author : Justin van der Merwe
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786996332
Book Description
Though initially considered a welcome counterweight to Western interest across Africa, the BRICS are increasingly being viewed as another example of foreign interference and exploitation. BRICS and Resistance in Africa explores the varied forms of African resistance being developed in response to the growing influence of the BRICS. Its case studies cover such instances as the opposition to China’s One Belt One Road initiative in East Africa; resistance to the BRICS’ oil activities in the Niger Delta; and the role of the BRICS in Zimbabwe’s political transition. The contributors expose the contradictions between the group’s rhetoric and its real impact, as well as the complicity of local elites in serving as proxies for the BRICS nations. By challenging and expanding the debates surrounding BRICS involvement in Africa, this collection offers new insight into resistance to globalization in the global South.
The Body in Spinoza and Nietzsche
Author : Razvan Ioan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030209873
Book Description
This engaging volume sheds light on the central role the turn to the body plays in the philosophies of Spinoza and Nietzsche, providing an ideal starting point for understanding their work. Ioan explores their critiques of traditional morality, as well as their accounts of ethics, freedom and politics, arguing that we can best compare their respective philosophical physiologies, and their broader philosophical positions, through their shared interest in the notion of power. In spite of significant differences, Ioan shows the ways in which the two thinkers share remarkable similarities, delving into their emphatic appeal to the body as the key to solving fundamental philosophical problems, both theoretical and practical.
Mapungubwe
Author : Thomas Huffmann
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1868144089
Book Description
Between AD 900 and 1300, the Shashe-Limpopo basin in Limpopo Province witnessed the development of an ancient civilisation. Like civilisations everywhere, it consisted of a complex social organisation supported by intensive agriculture and long-distance trade. The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, as it is now known, was the forerunner of the famous town of Great Zimbabwe, situated about 200 kilometres to the north, and its cultural connection to Great Zimbabwe and the Venda people allows archaeologists to reconstruct its evolution. This generously illustrated book tells the story of an African civilisation that began more than 1000 years ago. It is the first in a series of accessible books written by specialists for visitors to South Africa’s World Heritage Sites.
Negotiating Our Economic Future
Author : Geoffrey Allen Pigman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0228005043
Book Description
Tariffs and trade barriers are rising, and major diplomatic institutions that have long promoted liberal trade are coming under attack as impending trade wars threaten global trade and global value chains. At the root of this crisis, argues Geoffrey Pigman, is accelerating technological change. Negotiating Our Economic Future traces the impact of today's major technological transformations on global trade and the diplomacy that makes trade possible. Not only is global trade changing, in terms of what is traded and how, but diplomacy in the digital age is changing as well. Arguing that we must think differently about trade and diplomacy, Pigman proposes pragmatic policy approaches for the diplomatic management of a challenging and potentially dangerous future.
The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
Author : William Beinart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108837085
Book Description
An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.
A Dictionary of English Usage in Southern Africa
Author : Douglas Ridley Beeton
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 1975
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780195700626
Book Description
Internships, Employability and the Search for Decent Work Experience
Author : Andrew Stewart
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 1800885040
Book Description
This groundbreaking book examines the growing phenomenon of internships and the policy issues they raise, during a time when internships or traineeships have become an important way of transitioning from education into paid work.
Rethinking and Unthinking Development
Author : Busani Mpofu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789201772
Book Description
Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa
Author : Leketi Makalela
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1800412320
Book Description
This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.
