The Big Issue, Cape Town
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Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Homeless persons
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Homeless persons
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Author : Tessa Swithinbank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136534318
The success story of The Big Issue is both inspirational and paradoxical; rather than a charity, it is a flourishing commercial enterprise, but one that genuinely benefits those involved. The magazine is sold by homeless and vulnerable people and, in return, they achieve financial independence and status and self-reliance. The story of the paper's development has a practical angle; it should offer help and insights to NGOs and governments involved with the homeless, or to those businesses wishing to set up enterprises for the common good.
Author : Alison Blunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134319517
‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across the world, connected to a nation or attached to a house; the spaces and imaginaries of home are central to the construction of people’s identities. An essential guide to studying home and domesticity, this book locates ‘home’ within wider traditions of thought. It analyzes different sources, methods and examples in both historical and contemporary contexts; ranging from homes on the American frontier and imperial domesticity in British India, to Australian suburbs, multicultural London, and South Asian diasporic homes. The core argument of the book has three main parts that cut across each of its chapters: home-making identity and belonging homely and unhomely spaces. Each chapter includes text boxes and exercises and is well illustrated with cartoons, line drawings, and photographs. Outlining the social relations shaping, (and being influenced by) the geographies of home; and the imaginative as well as material importance of home, this book will be a valuable reference for students of geography, sociology, gender studies, and those interested in the home and domesticity.
Author : Sheila Harding
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Children's rights
ISBN : 1870727630
Author : Peter Barr
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2024-03-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1804251534
It's time to say it loud and clear – it's not a luxury to have a home, it's a human right. It's time we all found room in our hearts to help end homelessness. Joining the Homeless World Cup family is the first step in realising that goal. From the foreword by VAL McDERMID An estimated 100 million people worldwide are homeless and 1.6 billion live in sub-standard housing. But how can such a simple game like football tackle such a complex problem? Mel Young and Peter Barr tell the story of the 1.2 million homeless people from 70 countries who have taken part in the Homeless World Cup since it started in 2003. Home Game describes its profound impact on players, spectators and society at large – and how 'a ball can change the world'
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Publisher : Acorn Digital Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
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ISBN : 1908998164
Author : Clark Greg
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
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ISBN : 9264083537
This book identifies how development agencies and companies work, what they do and how they can collaborate and what constitutes success and value added in their efforts to achieve local economic development.
Author : Carrol Clarkson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0823254178
Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africa—through literary texts, artworks, and other forms of cultural production. Under the rubric of a philosophy of the limit, and with reference to a range of signifying acts and events, this book asks what it takes to recalibrate a sociopolitical scene, shifting perceptions of what counts and what matters, of what can be seen and heard, of what can be valued or regarded as meaningful. The book thus argues for an aesthetics of transitional justice and makes an appeal for a postapartheid aesthetic inquiry, as opposed to simply a political or a legal one. Each chapter brings a South African artwork, text, speech, building, or social encounter into conversation with debates in critical theory and continental philosophy, asking: What challenge do these South African acts of signification and resignification pose to current literary-philosophical debates?
Author : Samantha Van Schalkwyk
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443887579
Questions that concern gender and violence against women have been placed firmly on the agenda of interdisciplinary research within the humanities in recent years. Gender-based violence against women has increased exponentially in South Africa and in other countries on the African continent, particularly those with a history of political conflict. Researchers who explore such gender issues have paid limited attention to the intersection between the social contexts of the researched, the positionality of the researcher and the research product. This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and scholar-activists to explore new terrains of knowledge production, interrogating the connection between the intellectual project of this kind of research and the process of its production. Some chapters draw on theoretical insights and provide new ways of thinking about the kinds of questions that should be asked when conducting research in the field of gender. Other authors grapple with an acknowledgement of their multiple social positions in the world, the ways in which they experience these ever-shifting boundaries, and how this influences their theoretical and practical work. Some contributions go further, discussing the ways in which the researcher and the researched influence each other, and the link between feminist research and social change. These chapters contribute to an understanding of how social movement activism can be developed. Overall, this book represents an important combination of scholarly insights, and provides multiple reflections about practical aspects of conducting gender research in the African context. The work of the contributors to the volume is situated within a post-structural feminist agenda, and, collectively, the chapters link scholarship and activism in a way that pursues a social change agenda in research on gender and gender-based violence.
Author : Matthew Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137265221
In the midst of growing criticism of current economic orthodoxies and welfare systems, basic income is growing in popularity. This is the first book to discuss existing at examples of basic income, in both rich and poor countries, and to consider its prospects in other places around the world.