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Mexican Memoir - A Personal Account of Anthropology and Radical Politics in Oaxaca (Hardcover): Howard Campbell Mexican Memoir - A Personal Account of Anthropology and Radical Politics in Oaxaca (Hardcover)
Howard Campbell
R2,970 Discovery Miles 29 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ensconced in the tight kinship network of a local household in Oaxaca, Mexico, the author embarked on a challenging study of a radical ethnic political movement, COCEI. An anthropologist who married a Zapotec Women, the author chronicles his fieldwork in this memoir. His research is interwoven with his personal experiences, addressing the political and ethical dilemmas of contemporary ethnography. Campbell's informants are internationally known politicians, poets, and painters who live in Juchitan, a large city controlled by indigenous activists. While adopting aspects of the postmodern critique of ethnography, the author proposes and illustrates a collaborative form of research based on partisan political commitment. Through a candid and intimate account, he portrays his informants and research site, and his direct involvement in Zapotec society. The book is both a highly readable ethnography of Southern Mexico and a contribution to debates about current anthropology.

The Sangh & Swaraj (Paperback): Ratan Sharda The Sangh & Swaraj (Paperback)
Ratan Sharda
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Fuelling Futures (Paperback): Tshepiso Phosa, Timothy Maurice Fuelling Futures (Paperback)
Tshepiso Phosa, Timothy Maurice
R199 R184 Discovery Miles 1 840 Save R15 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days
I Beg To Differ - Ministry Amid The Tear Gas (Paperback): Peter Storey I Beg To Differ - Ministry Amid The Tear Gas (Paperback)
Peter Storey
R410 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

'Let me say to Mr Botha: apartheid is doomed! It has been condemned in the Councils of God, rejected by every nation on the planet and is no longer believed in by the people who gave it birth. Apartheid is the god that has failed.' So preached Bishop Peter Storey in 1986. Challenging apartheid wherever he could, he led the SA Methodist Church into what many whites saw as uncomfortable 'political' territory.

Join him in his inspiring journey from sailor-turned-minister to the South African Council of Churches leadership in its darkest hour, from tending to Robert Sobukwe and Nelson Mandela on Robben Island, through the forced removals of District Six and the storm surrounding Stompie Seipei's murder. I Beg to Differ spans a parish minister’s sorrows and joys, founding Life Line SA, the bombing of Khotso House and a close shave with death with Desmond Tutu. Storey shares the convictions that inspired him to minister amid the teargas, violence and intimidation of the apartheid regime.

Africa's cause must triumph - The collected writings of A.P. Mda (Paperback): Robert Edgar, Luyanda K.A. Msumza Africa's cause must triumph - The collected writings of A.P. Mda (Paperback)
Robert Edgar, Luyanda K.A. Msumza
R270 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Class of `44', the founders of the African National Congress Youth League (CYL) in 1944, includes a remarkable list of names: Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, Anton Lembede, and Ashby Peter (A.P.) Mda. While much has been written on the others, relatively little attention has been paid to Mda, the Youth League president from 1947 to 1947 whom his peers regarded as the foremost political intellectual and strategist of their generation. He was known for his passionate advocacy of African nationalism, guiding the ANC into militant forms of protest, and pressing activists to consider turning to armed struggle in the early 1950s. In his late teens Mda began leaving a rich written record-through letters and essays in newspapers, political tracts and speeches, and letters to colleagues-that allows us to chart the evolution of his views throughout his life not only on politics but also on culture, language, literature, music, religion, and education.

On the postcolony (Paperback): Achille Mbembe On the postcolony (Paperback)
Achille Mbembe
R380 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R29 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

First published in 2001, Achille Mbembe's landmark book, On the postcolony, continues to renew our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. This edition has been updated with a foreword by professor of African literature, Isabel Hofmeyr, and a preface by the author. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests die hard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. Through his provocation, the `banality of power', Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power in Africa. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity - violence, wonder and laughter - to contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. On the postcolony, like Frantz Fanon's Black skins, white masks, will remain a text of profound importance in the discourse of anticolonial and anti-imperial struggles.

The Poet and the Dictator - Lauro de Bosis Resists Fascism in Italy and America (Hardcover, New): Jean Mudge The Poet and the Dictator - Lauro de Bosis Resists Fascism in Italy and America (Hardcover, New)
Jean Mudge
R2,975 Discovery Miles 29 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This vivid biography is a study of the life and times of the Italian poet-activist, Lauro de Bosis. Remarkably productive as a poet, cultural diplomat, and political subversive, de Bosis founded and lead an underground resistance group, the National Alliance for Liberty. His actions culminated in a dramatic solo flight over Rome in October 1931, showering the city with protest leaflets against the Fascist dictatorship before plunging to his death. This feat brought world attention to the existence of anti-Fascism, much to Mussolini's chagrin and rage.

De Bosis's story, told against the backdrop of Rome's politics in the 1920s, is at once personal, national, and international. World figures --- from Mussolini, Croce, Ezra Pound, to Walter Lippmann, Thornton Wilder, and his lover, the actress Ruth Draper --- were all within de Bosis's compass. Gifted, quirky, original, and impulsive but principled to the point of giving up both personal love and family for his cause, his life shows how Mussolini's regime systematically cleared out the cream of Italy's young liberal intellectuals. Based on previously untapped archival resources, this is the first biography of a young, gifted Italian poet who dared to challenge the power of a totalitarian state with his practical idealism and fierce determination to protect Italy's fragile democracy from il Duce.

Biko: A Biography (Paperback, Anniversary Edition): Xolela Mangcu Biko: A Biography (Paperback, Anniversary Edition)
Xolela Mangcu
R345 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

“A brilliant biography that will transform your understanding of this young, charismatic leader” — Joseph Nhini, BooksLive, Sunday Times

“Deeply thought-provoking” — Tyrone August, Cape Times

“Makes a good job of weaving together a number of strands that make the totality of the powerful persona Biko became ... Sheds new light on more than just Biko” — Sam Mkokeli, Business Day

Interest in the iconic Steve Biko has strongly revived, as the current generation of activists calls on his legacy and thoughts. Biko is cited and disputed particularly in the #RhodesMustFall and decolonisation movements. This comprehensive biography, shortlisted for the Alan Paton award, explores Biko's life, the people and ideas that shaped him, and his part in Black Consciousness and the struggle. Updated in an affordable new edition, Biko: A Biography presents a new generation with nuanced insights into the life and thought of a South African hero.

State of Emergency - How We Win in the Country We Built (Paperback): Tamika D Mallory State of Emergency - How We Win in the Country We Built (Paperback)
Tamika D Mallory
R434 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Man Who Hated Women - Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age (Paperback): Amy Sohn The Man Who Hated Women - Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age (Paperback)
Amy Sohn
R545 R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Save R35 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Draw the Line Here (Paperback): Pro Cartoonists Organisation Draw the Line Here (Paperback)
Pro Cartoonists Organisation; Foreword by Libby Purves; From an idea by CrowdShed; Introduction by Robert Sharp
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Great Greenwashing - How Brands, Governments and Influencers are lying to you (Paperback): John Pabon The Great Greenwashing - How Brands, Governments and Influencers are lying to you (Paperback)
John Pabon
R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Home Baked - My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Paperback): Alia Volz Home Baked - My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Paperback)
Alia Volz
R441 R418 Discovery Miles 4 180 Save R23 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Mission - A Life for Freedom in South Africa (Paperback): Denis Goldberg The Mission - A Life for Freedom in South Africa (Paperback)
Denis Goldberg
R954 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Save R380 (40%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nelson Mandela's comrade in the struggle, Denis Goldberg, spent 22 years in an Apartheid South African political prison from 1963 to 1985. In this memoir, Denis, the perennial optimist, writes about the human side of the often painful road to freedom; about the joy of love and death, human dignity, political passion, comradeship, conflict between comrades...and a very long imprisonment. These memoirs offer the reader an insight into an important chapter in the history of our struggle from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from his Black comrades and colleagues. That segregation denied him both the companionship and the counsel of his fellow accused. His was consequently an exceedingly lonely sojourn. But, true to himself and the cause he had espoused from his youth, he bore it with courage and immense dignity.

Voices of liberation - 6 volume set (Paperback): Gerald Pillay, Don Pinnock, Greg Houston, James Ngculu, Leo Zeilig, Derek Hook Voices of liberation - 6 volume set (Paperback)
Gerald Pillay, Don Pinnock, Greg Houston, James Ngculu, Leo Zeilig, …
R198 R183 Discovery Miles 1 830 Save R15 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This six-volume Voices of Liberation series book set is a celebration of lives and writings of South African and African liberation activists and heroes. Each book provides human, social and literary contexts of the subject, with critical resonance to where we come from, who we are, as a nation, and how we can choose to shape our destiny. This series invites the contemporary reader to ensure that the debates and values that shaped the liberation movement are not lost, by providing access to their thoughts and writings, and engaging directly with the rich history of the struggle for democracy, to discover where we come from and to explore how we, too, can choose our destiny. Books in this set are: Voices of Liberation: Albert Luthuli by Gerald Pillay. Albert Luthuli was a teacher, activist, a lay preacher, and a politician. He was the president of the African National Congress from 1952 until his accidental death. Voices of Liberation: Ruth First by Don Pinnock. Ruth First was an anti-apartheid South African activist and a scholar. She was killed by a parcel bomb addressed specifically to her in Mozambique, where she in exile from South Africa. Voices of Liberation: Patrice Lumumba by Leo Zeilig. Patrice Lumumba was a Congolese politician and independence leader, who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic of Congo, after Congo was liberated into an independent republic from Belgium. Voices of Liberation: Chris Hani by Greg Houston & James Ngculu. Chris Hani was the leader of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto weSizwe. He was a fierce opponent of the apartheid government, and was assassinated on 10 April 1993. Voices of Liberation: Frantz Fanon by Leo Zeilig. Frantz Fanon was an activist, philosopher, and psychiatrist whose work shaped the late 20th century critical anthropology in Europe and North America. Voices of Liberation: Steve Biko by Derek Hook. Steve Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.

Climate Justice and Participatory Research - Building Climate-Resilient Commons (Hardcover): Patricia E. Perkins Climate Justice and Participatory Research - Building Climate-Resilient Commons (Hardcover)
Patricia E. Perkins
R1,896 Discovery Miles 18 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Climate catastrophe throws into stark relief the extreme, life-threatening inequalities that affect millions of lives worldwide. The poorest and most marginalized, who are least responsible for the consumption and emissions that create climate change, are the first and hardest impacted, and the least able to protect themselves. Climate justice is simultaneously a movement, an academic field, an organizing principle, and a political demand. Building climate justice is a matter of life and death.Climate Justice and Participatory Research offers ideas and inspiration for climate justice through the creation of research, knowledge, and livelihood commons and community-based climate resilience. It brings together articulations of the what, why, and how of climate justice through the voices of energetic and motivated scholar-activists who are building alliances across Latin America, Africa, and Canada. Exemplifying socio-ecological transformation through equitable public engagement, these scholars, climate activists, community educators, and teachers come together to share their stories of participatory research and collective action. Grounded in experience and processes that are currently underway, Climate Justice and Participatory Research explores the value of common assets, collective action, environmental protection, and equitable partnerships between local community experts and academic allies. It demonstrates the negative effects of climate-related actions that run roughshod over local communities’ interests and wellbeing, and acknowledges the myriad challenges of participatory research. This is a work committed to the practical work of transforming socio-economies from situations of vulnerability to collective wellbeing.

American Reform and Reformers - A Biographical Dictionary (Hardcover, New): Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller American Reform and Reformers - A Biographical Dictionary (Hardcover, New)
Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller
R2,629 Discovery Miles 26 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In entries such as Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement, Booker T. Washington and Black Self-Help, and Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women, this dictionary provides in-depth examination of major American reformers and the movements they defined. With coverage extending from the early republic to today, the book considers abolitionism, women's rights, temperance, the social gospel, birth control, pacifism, civil rights, environmentalism, consumerism, and other controversial movements. Each entry combines biography with historical analysis to show the historical context and character of the movement and person. Individually, the entries provide modern, interpretive treatments of their subjects. Collectively, they reveal the direction and dynamics of American reform over two centuries. Emphasizing social reform over civic reform, the book gives special attention to reformers and reforms that have significantly altered the social order. Written by prominent scholars, the entries show the importance of personality and historical context in reform movements and the relationship between particular reforms and the temperament of an age. With full-bodied biographies of the reformers and their movements, a time-line on American reform, up-to-date interpretations and bibliographies, and a wide range of subjects, this book provides the most comprehensive and cogent view of American reform and reformers anywhere. It also provides the fullest treatment to date of post-World War II reform activity and personalities.

Northern Ireland 1921 - 2001 - Political Power and Social Classes (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Paul Anthony Elliot Bew,... Northern Ireland 1921 - 2001 - Political Power and Social Classes (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Paul Anthony Elliot Bew, Peter Gibbon, Henry Patterson
R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This highly praised study traces the province's history from partition in 1921 to today's peace process. Widely acknowledged as the best informed academic observers of Northern Irish politics, the authors look behind the handshakes on the White House lawn and provide a fascinating insight into history as it unfolds in the headlines and on news bulletins.

Activism across Borders since 1870 - Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (Hardcover): Daniel Laqua Activism across Borders since 1870 - Causes, Campaigns and Conflicts in and beyond Europe (Hardcover)
Daniel Laqua
R2,689 Discovery Miles 26 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has been rife with activism. Although very different from one another, each of these movements has created alliances across borders, with activists stressing that their concerns are not confined to individual nation states. In this book, Daniel Laqua shows that global efforts of this kind are not a recent phenomenon, and that as long as there have been borders, activists have sought to cross them. Activism Across Borders since 1870 explores how individuals, groups and organisations have fostered bonds in their quest for political and social change, and considers the impact of national and ideological boundaries on their efforts. Focusing on Europe but with a global outlook, the book acknowledges the importance of imperial and postcolonial settings for groups and individuals that expressed far-reaching ambitions. From feminism and socialism to anti-war campaigns and green politics, this book approaches transnational activism with an emphasis on four features: connectedness, ambivalence, transience and marginality. In doing so, it demonstrates the intertwined nature of different movements, problematizes transnational action, discusses the temporary nature of some alliances, and shows how transnationalism has been used by those marginalized at the national level. With a broad chronological perspective and thematic chapters, it provides historical context, clarifies terms and concepts, and offers an alternative history of modern Europe through the lens of activists, movements and campaigns.

The Weight of Air - A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery (Hardcover): David Poses The Weight of Air - A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery (Hardcover)
David Poses
R693 R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Save R68 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From What Is to What If - Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want (Paperback): Rob Hopkins From What Is to What If - Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want (Paperback)
Rob Hopkins
R347 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R43 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Big ideas that just might save the world. the Guardian A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we? Sir Quentin Blake What if we took play seriously? What if we considered imagination vital to our health? What if we followed nature’s lead? What if school nurtured young imaginations? What if things turned out okay? Rob Hopkins asks the most important question that society has somehow forgotten – What If? Hopkins explores what we must do to revive and replenish our collective imagination. If we can rekindle that precious creative spark, whole societies and cultures can change – rapidly, dramatically and unexpectedly – for the better. There really is no end to what we might accomplish. From What Is to What If is the most inspiring, courageous and necessary book you will read this year; a call to action to reclaim and unleash the power of our imaginations and to solve the problems of our time. Meet the individuals and communities around the world who are doing it now – and creating brighter futures for us all.  At last, we have a design for our dreams. I believe we have a debt of honour to take action. Please read this book and defy the herd. Are we golden or are we debris? Mark Stewart, musician, The Pop Group and Mark Stewart & The Maffia

Vida y Hacienda - The Life and Legacy of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos (Hardcover): Andre Lee Muniz Vida y Hacienda - The Life and Legacy of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos (Hardcover)
Andre Lee Muniz
R867 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cowboy Capitalist - John Hays Hammond, The American West & The Jameson Raid (Hardcover): Charles Van Onselen The Cowboy Capitalist - John Hays Hammond, The American West & The Jameson Raid (Hardcover)
Charles Van Onselen 2
R360 R321 Discovery Miles 3 210 Save R39 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Jameson Raid was a pivotal moment in the history of South Africa, linking events from the Anglo-Boer War to the declaration of the Union of South Africa in 1910. For over a century the failed revolution has been interpreted through the lens of British imperialism, with responsibility laid at the feet of Cecil John Rhodes. Yet the wild adventurism that characterised the raid resembles a cowboy expedition more than a serious attempt to overthrow a Boer government.

In The Cowboy Capitalist, Charles van Onselen challenges a historiography of over 120 years, locating the raid in American rather than British history and forcing us to rethink the histories of at least three nations. Through a close look at the little-remembered figure of John Hays Hammond, a confidant of both Rhodes and Jameson, he discovers the American Old West on the South African Highveld.

This radical reinterpretation challenges the commonly held belief that the Jameson Raid was quintessentially British and, in doing so, drives splinters into our understanding of events as far forward as South Africa’s critical 1948 general election, with which the foundations of Grand Apartheid were laid.

I Am a Girl from Africa - A Memoir of Empowerment, Community, and Hope (Paperback): Elizabeth Nyamayaro I Am a Girl from Africa - A Memoir of Empowerment, Community, and Hope (Paperback)
Elizabeth Nyamayaro
R468 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Pianist from Syria - A Memoir (Paperback): Aeham Ahmad The Pianist from Syria - A Memoir (Paperback)
Aeham Ahmad; Translated by Emanuel Bergmann
R425 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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