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This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, the event that prompted the United Nations to declare apartheid a "crime against humanity."
Voices of Sharpeville brings to life the destruction of Sharpeville’s predecessor, Top Location, and the careful planning of its isolated and carceral design by apartheid architects. A unique set of eyewitness testimonies from Sharpeville’s inhabitants reveals how they coped with apartheid and why they rose up to protest this system, narrating this massacre for the first time in the words of the participants themselves. Previously understood only through the iconic photos of fleeing protestors and dead bodies, the timeline is reconstructed using an extensive archive of new documentary and oral sources including unused police records, personal interviews with survivors and their families, and maps and family photos. By identifying nearly all the victims, many omitted from earlier accounts, the authors upend the official narrative of the massacre.
Amid worldwide struggles against racial discrimination and efforts to give voices to protestors and victims of state violence, this book provides a deeper understanding of this pivotal event for a newly engaged international audience.
'Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She
reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not
all in the same boat.' - Greta Thunberg No matter your age,
location or skin colour, you can be an effective activist.
Devastating flooding, deforestation, extinction and starvation.
These are the issues that not only threaten in the future, they are
a reality. After witnessing some of these issues first-hand,
Vanessa Nakate saw how the world's biggest polluters are asleep at
the wheel, ignoring the Global South where the effects of climate
injustice are most fiercely felt. Inspired by a shared vision of
hope, Vanessa's commanding political voice demands attention for
the biggest issue of our time and, in this rousing manifesto for
change, shows how you can join her to protect our planet now and
for the future. Vanessa realized the importance of her place in the
climate movement after she, the only Black activist in an image
with four white Europeans, was cropped out of a press photograph at
Davos in 2020. This example illustrates how those who will see the
biggest impacts of the climate crisis are repeatedly omitted from
the conversation. As she explains, 'We are on the front line, but
we are not on the front page.' Without A Bigger Picture, you're
missing the full story on climate change. 'An indispensable voice
for our future.' - Malala Yousafzai 'A powerful global voice.' -
Angelina Jolie
This unique book explores a very broad range of ideas and
institutions and provides case studies and best practices in the
context of broader theoretical analysis. The impact global
multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and IMF have on
development is hotly debated, but few doubt their power and
influence. Therefore, the main aim of this book is to examine the
concepts that have powerfully influenced development policy and,
more broadly, look at the role of ideas in these institutions and
how they have affected current development discourse. With the aim,
the objectives, therefore, to enhance the understanding of how the
ideas travel within the systems and how they are translated into
policy, modified, distorted, or resisted. It is not about creating
something fundamentally new, nor is it about completely
transcending the efforts of these global institutions. Rather, it
is about creating effective global institutions at a global level,
that can aid in social and economic development globally. The
scholarly value of the proposed publication is self-evident because
of the increase in the emphasis placed on global institutions and
the role they play for corporate governance, innovation, and
sustainability globally and it is going to be more crucial
post-pandemic when the economies restart and more so in emerging
economies. Moreover, there is a dire need for understanding
comprehensively the complexity in the process of how these global
institutions work multi-laterally.
Bulelwa Mabasa was born into a ‘matchbox’ family home in Meadowlands, Soweto, at the height of apartheid. In My Land Obsession, she shares her colourful Christian upbringing, framed by the lived experiences of her grandparents, who endured land dispossession in the form of the Group Areas Act and the migrant labour system.
Bulelwa’s world was irrevocably altered when she encountered the disparities of life in a white-dominated school. Her ongoing interest in land justice informed her choice to study law at Wits, with the land question becoming central in her postgraduate studies. When Bulelwa joined the practice of law in the early 2000s as an attorney, she felt a strong need to build on her curiosity around land reform, moving on to
form and lead a practice centred on land reform at Werksmans Attorneys. She describes the role played by her mentors and the professional and personal challenges she faced.
My Land Obsession sets out notable legal cases Bulelwa has led and lessons that may be drawn from them, as well as detailing her contributions to national policy on land reform and her views on how the land question must be inhabited and owned by all South Africans.
Conversations with Will D. Campbell is the first collection of
interviews with the southern preacher, activist, and author best
known for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Ranging
from a 1971 discussion about religion and ending with a previously
unpublished interview conducted in 2009, these twelve interviews
give insight to Campbell's unique religious beliefs and highlight
pivotal moments of his career. Will D. Campbell (1924-2013) was
born poor in rural Mississippi and became an ordained minister when
he was barely seventeen years old. After serving in the Army during
World War II, Campbell ministered in a variety of positions,
including a pastorate in Louisiana, as religious director at the
University of Mississippi, and as a race relations consultant for
the National Council of Churches. Along the way, Campbell worked
with civil rights figures, Klansmen, Black Panthers, and country
music icons, believing all were equal in the eyes of God.
Throughout his career, Campbell drew attention for criticizing the
institutional churches and supporting women's rights, gay rights,
and school desegregation. From 1962 through 2012, Campbell
published over fifteen books including novels, biographies, and
memoirs. His first book, Race and the Renewal of the Church,
introduced his theories of reconciliation and the failures of
institutional churches. His best-known work, Brother to a
Dragonfly, was a National Book Award finalist.
Sustainable Work in Europe brings together a strong core of Swedish
working life research, with additional contributions from across
Europe, and discussion of current issues such as digitalisation,
climate change and the Covid pandemic. It bridges gaps between
social science and medicine, and adds emphasis on age and gender.
The book links workplace practice, theory and policy, and is
intended to provide the basis for ongoing debate and dialogue.
The assertion that empathy is an essential characteristic of equity
work in higher education demands educators operate from a place of
justice, fairness, and inclusive practice. Empathy is a personal
quality that allows educators to consider another's perspective to
inform the decision-making process about policy, procedures,
program and service design, and teaching pedagogy. Thus, engaging
empathy in everyday practice supports the potential to create more
equitable and inclusive environments as well as standards for
serving a diverse student population. Achieving Equity in Higher
Education Using Empathy as a Guiding Principle explores what
empathy is, how empathy can be developed, and how empathy can be
applied in an educator's practice to achieve equity-mindedness and
mitigate inequitable student outcomes in and out of the classroom.
The book also argues that self-examination and engaging empathy is
a way to thoughtfully examine differences and uphold the values of
humanity. Covering topics such as intercultural listening and
program development, this reference work is ideal for
administrators, practitioners, academicians, scholars, researchers,
instructors, and students.
The gap between various social classes occurs due to inequality in
various social categories arising from lack of opportunities and
exclusion from resource distribution due to various attributes of
these societal classifications. The social problems of poverty and
inequality created by economic uncertainty become a compelling
force for states to introduce welfare programs. Reshaping Social
Policy to Combat Poverty and Inequality is a critical scholarly
publication that delivers extensive coverage of policy practice and
a unique emphasis on the broad issues and human dilemmas inherent
in the pursuit of social justice. The book further explores how the
economic fluctuations and political change interact with shifting
social values to shape and re-shape social policies. Highlighting a
range of topics such as economics, discrimination, and sustainable
development, this book is essential for policymakers, academicians,
researchers, social psychologists, sociologists, government
officials, and students.
Historical accounts of racial discrimination in transportation have
focused until now on trains, buses, and streetcars and their
respective depots, terminals, stops, and other public
accommodations. It is essential to add airplanes and airports to
this narrative, says Anke Ortlepp. Air travel stands at the center
of the twentieth century's transportation revolution, and airports
embodied the rapidly mobilizing, increasingly prosperous, and
cosmopolitan character of the postwar United States. When
segregationists inscribed local definitions of whiteness and
blackness onto sites of interstate and even international transit,
they not only brought the incongruities of racial separation into
sharp relief but also obligated the federal government to
intervene. Ortlepp looks at African American passengers; civil
rights organizations; the federal government and judiciary; and
airport planners, architects, and managers as actors in shaping
aviation's legal, cultural, and built environments. She relates the
struggles of black travelers-to enjoy the same freedoms on the
airport grounds that they enjoyed in the aircraft cabin-in the
context of larger shifts in the postwar social, economic, and
political order. Jim Crow terminals, Ortlepp shows us, were both
spatial expressions of sweeping change and sites of confrontation
over the re-negotiation of racial identities. Hence, this new study
situates itself in the scholarly debate over the multifaceted
entanglements of "race" and "space."
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