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New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China - Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China (Hardcover, New):... New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China - Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China (Hardcover, New)
James D. Seymour, Michael R. Anderson
R3,625 R2,745 Discovery Miles 27 450 Save R880 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Much has been written about the laogai (sometimes likened to the Soviet gulag) in the People's Republic of China. Depending on the source, the prisons are described as nonexistent, enlightened institutions, or hellish places that subject the inmates to degradation and misery. The system is commonly thought of (by admirers and critics alike) as having a measurable impact on the national economy and providing significant resources to the state. Based on research in classified documents and extensive interviews with former prisoners, judicial personnel, and other insiders, and featuring case studies dealing with the three northwestern provinces, this book examines such assertions on the basis of the facts about this underexamined subject in order to arrive at a detailed, objective, and realistic picture of the situation. In the case of each province under study, the authors discuss the history of the provincial prison system and the impact that each has had at the macro, meso, and micro levels.

Linguistics and the Third Reich - Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language (Hardcover, New): Christopher Hutton Linguistics and the Third Reich - Mother-tongue Fascism, Race and the Science of Language (Hardcover, New)
Christopher Hutton
R3,946 Discovery Miles 39 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyses the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and within the history of modern linguistics.

eBook available with sample pages: 0203021010

Archaeology Under Fire - Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (Paperback): Lynn... Archaeology Under Fire - Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East (Paperback)
Lynn Meskell
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Archaeology Under Fire addresses archaeology's role in current political issues, whether it be the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the division of Cyprus, or the continued destruction of Beirut.

Refugees, Environment and Development (Paperback): Richard Black Refugees, Environment and Development (Paperback)
Richard Black
R1,955 Discovery Miles 19 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Refugees, Environment and Development is concerned with the complex interrelationships between forced migration, natural resource management and 'sustainable development'. The book challenges the growing rhetoric that refugees 'cause' environmental degradation, and that environmental decline is promoting a new wave of 'environmental refugees'. Drawing on examples from Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as detailed case studies of the Rwandan emergency of 1994-96, and lesser known refugee movements to Guinea and Senegal in West Africa, the book argues against a neo-Malthusian view of the relationship between population, environment and migration. The author explores alternative approaches to the dynamic processes of social and environmental change in refugee situations. This is an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students concerned with environment, development and migration studies, as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the field.

Troubled Tiger - Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea (Paperback, 2nd edition): Mark L. Clifford Troubled Tiger - Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mark L. Clifford
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this new edition of Clifford's widely acclaimed book, the author expands his analysis of modern Korea to include the dramatic events of recent years. These include the imprisonment and sentencing of two former presidents of South Korea for their role in the Kwangju uprising and on various charges of corruption, the death of Kim Il Sung in the North and the resultant exacerbation of the instability of the North-South standoff, with all its military/nuclear implications, and recent labor and student protests.

Troubled Tiger - Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Mark L. Clifford Troubled Tiger - Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Mark L. Clifford
R5,113 Discovery Miles 51 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this new edition of Clifford's widely acclaimed book, the author expands his analysis of modern Korea to include the dramatic events of recent years. These include the imprisonment and sentencing of two former presidents of South Korea for their role in the Kwangju uprising and on various charges of corruption, the death of Kim Il Sung in the North and the resultant exacerbation of the instability of the North-South standoff, with all its military/nuclear implications, and recent labor and student protests.

America, American Jews, and the Holocaust - American Jewish History (Hardcover): Jeffrey Gurock America, American Jews, and the Holocaust - American Jewish History (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Gurock
R6,890 Discovery Miles 68 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Part of an eight-volume set which collates articles written on the history of the Jewish people in America, this volume incorporates studies of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the respective responses of the German-American Press and the American-Jewish Press during the emergence of Nazism, and the subsequent issues of rescue during the Holocaust and policies towards the displaced.

Women Behind Bars in Romania (Paperback, New Ed): Annie Samuelli Women Behind Bars in Romania (Paperback, New Ed)
Annie Samuelli
R1,474 Discovery Miles 14 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1949, Annie Samuelli and her sister Nora were seized by the Communists on trumped-up charges in a mass arrest of all Romanian nationals working for the US and British legations in Bucharest. After nine months of torture and interrogation, the two sisters were sentenced to long prison terms. Then, in 1961, after 11 years and 340 days in separate prisons and security cells, the two were quietly released from jail and exiled upon payment of ransom by a relative living in the United States. In this book, Annie Samuelli writes of those years of imprisonment. She describes her successful effort to sustain her own and others' spirits through the seemingly endless ordeal.

Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination (Hardcover, New): Dona Kolar-Panov Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination (Hardcover, New)
Dona Kolar-Panov
R3,633 Discovery Miles 36 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume is a study of the loss and reconstruction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Bosnian and Croatian communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes that affected these diasporic groups on the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. She describes the migrant audience's daily emcounter with the media images of destruction and atrocities committed in Croatia and Bosnia, and charts the implications the continuous viewing of the real and excessive violence had on the awakening of their ethno-national consciousness. The author presents an insight into how migrant cultures are shaped and changed through the reception and assimilation of images seen on video and television screens. Using the combination of close and semiotic analysis of videotexts with an informed account of social, political and historical contexts, the author recalls the complex relationships between ethnicity, technology and the reconstruction of identity.

Covert Network - Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA (Hardcover): Eric Thomas Chester Covert Network - Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA (Hardcover)
Eric Thomas Chester
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book tells the story of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the largest nonsectarian refugee relief agency in the world. Founded in the 1930s by socialist militants, the IRC attracted the support of renowned progressives such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Norman Thomas, and Reinhold Niebuhr. But by the 1950s it had been absorbed into the American foreign policy establishment. Throughout the Cold War, the IRC was deeply involved in the volatile confrontations between the two superpowers and participated in an array of sensitive clandestine operations. The IRC thus evolved from a small organization of committed activists to a global operation functioning as one link in the CIA's covert network.

Secret Agents - The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (Paperback, New): Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz Secret Agents - The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America (Paperback, New)
Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The 1950's trial of the Rosenburgs on charges of 'atomic spying' came to stand in many minds for the paranoia of the Cold War. Many of the issues are still with us and the contributors draw salient connections between that time and this.

North American Genocides - Indigenous Nations, Settler Colonialism, and International Law (Paperback): Laurelyn Whitt, Alan W.... North American Genocides - Indigenous Nations, Settler Colonialism, and International Law (Paperback)
Laurelyn Whitt, Alan W. Clarke
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When and how might the term genocide appropriately be ascribed to the experience of North American Indigenous nations under settler colonialism? Laurelyn Whitt and Alan W. Clarke contend that, if certain events which occurred during the colonization of North America were to take place today, they could be prosecuted as genocide. The legal methodology that the authors develop to establish this draws upon the definition of genocide as presented in the United Nations Genocide Convention and enhanced by subsequent decisions in international legal fora. Focusing on early British colonization, the authors apply this methodology to two historical cases: that of the Beothuk Nation from 1500-1830, and of the Powhatan Tsenacommacah from 1607-77. North American Genocides concludes with a critique of the Conventional account of genocide, suggesting how it might evolve beyond its limitations to embrace the role of cultural destruction in undermining the viability of human groups.

Wang Shiwei and Wild Lilies - Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party 1942-1944 (Paperback): Dai Qing Wang Shiwei and Wild Lilies - Rectification and Purges in the Chinese Communist Party 1942-1944 (Paperback)
Dai Qing
R1,348 Discovery Miles 13 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work investigates a case of political persecution that occurred over 50 years ago (the Wang case), but which still raises profound issues for the relationship between revolutionary regimes and the intellectuals who serve them. Song Jinshou has compiled a list of the documents of the Wang case.

The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File - Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records (Hardcover, New): Peter B.... The Mandelstam File and Der Nister File - Introduction to Stalin-era Prison and Labor Camp Records (Hardcover, New)
Peter B. Maggs
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reproducing actual Soviet documents, this work examines what prison and labour camp files reveal of the fate of the poet Osip Mandelstam and the history of the Yiddish writer Pinhas Kahanovich (Der Nister). It also provides a guide to the analysis of Stalin-era prison and labour camp files.

An Unwitting Assassin - The Story Of My Father's Attempted Assassination Of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (Paperback):... An Unwitting Assassin - The Story Of My Father's Attempted Assassination Of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (Paperback)
Susie Cazenove 1
R260 R203 Discovery Miles 2 030 Save R57 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The intimate and personal story behind the man who tried to kill Verwoerd but didn’t succeed.

“The raucous wail of sirens pierced the quiet Saturday afternoon, making me drop my book and rush outside to see what drama was taking place. A fleet of cars, their sirens screaming, roared along Oxford Road two hundred yards from our house. I stood on the lawn wondering what on earth it was because sirens were rarely heard near our home. I went back inside; the commotion was over. But within half an hour our telephone started ringing non-stop . . .”

9 April 1960 was the day that changed Susie Cazenove’s life – the day her father, David Pratt, shot the Prime Minister of South Africa, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd. Verwoerd, commonly known as the architect of apartheid, didn’t die, but Pratt’s family lived with the legacy of his action.

A chance encounter with the late David Rattray of Fugitive’s Drift led Cazenove to revisit the memories of that terrible day. With Rattray’s encouragement she put pen to paper to describe the extraordinary events of that day and its consequences. Part family memoir, part ode to the settlement of Johannesburg, Cazenove skilfully weaves her family history and the mood in South Africa in the 1950s and 60s as a background to what may have led her father, a farmer and gentle man, to commit a treasonous act.

Surviving the Storm: A Memoir - A Memoir (Paperback, Revised): Chen Xuezhao Surviving the Storm: A Memoir - A Memoir (Paperback, Revised)
Chen Xuezhao
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Memoirs of the Chinese author, Chen Xeuzhao, who was branded a rightist by the communist authorities. The book tells of her suffering during the Cultural Revolution.

Hunger Trilogy (Hardcover): Kyna Rubin, Ira Kasoff, Wang Ruowang Hunger Trilogy (Hardcover)
Kyna Rubin, Ira Kasoff, Wang Ruowang
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a "rightist" in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and "Hunger".

Hunger Trilogy (Paperback): Kyna Rubin, Ira Kasoff, Wang Ruowang Hunger Trilogy (Paperback)
Kyna Rubin, Ira Kasoff, Wang Ruowang
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a "rightist" in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and "Hunger".

The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (Hardcover): Kaneko Fumiko, Mikiso Hane, Jean Inglis The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman (Hardcover)
Kaneko Fumiko, Mikiso Hane, Jean Inglis
R5,243 Discovery Miles 52 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Despite an early life of misery, deprivation, and hardship, she grew up to be a strong and independent young woman. When she moved to Tokyo in 1920, she gravitated to left-wing groups and eventually joined with the Korean nihilist Pak Yeol to form a two-person nihilist organization. Two days after the Great Tokyo Earthquake, in a general wave of anti-leftist and anti-Korean hysteria, the authorities arrested the pair and charged them with high treason. Defiant to the end (she hanged herself in prison on July 23, 1926), Kaneko Fumiko wrote this memoir as an indictment of the society that oppressed her, the family that abused and neglected her, and the imperial system that drove her to her death.

A Long Letter To My Daughter (Paperback): Marita van der Vyver A Long Letter To My Daughter (Paperback)
Marita van der Vyver
R365 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Save R51 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

A Long Letter To My Daughter is award-winning South African author Marita van der Vyver's youth memoir.

An unputdownable read that weaves together both love letter, to a daughter, a language and a country, whilst tracing Van der Vyver's early years. Above all, it is a mother's effort to make sense of a world that seems increasingly senseless.

Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice (Hardcover): Dolores... Chicana/Latina Testimonios as Pedagogical, Methodological, and Activist Approaches to Social Justice (Hardcover)
Dolores Delgado Bernal, Rebeca Burciaga, Judith Flores Carmona
R4,352 Discovery Miles 43 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

While the genre of testimonio has deep roots in oral cultures and in Latin American human rights struggles, the publication and subsequent adoption of This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga & Anzaldua, 1983) and, more recently, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Latina Feminist Group, 2001), have demonstrated the power of testimonio as a genre that exposes brutality, disrupts silencing, and builds solidarity among women of colour. Within the field of education, scholars are increasingly taking up testimonio as a pedagogical, methodological, and activist approach to social justice, which transgresses traditional paradigms in academia. Unlike the more usual approach of researchers producing unbiased knowledge, the testimonio challenges objectivity by situating the individual in communion with a collective experience marked by marginalization, oppression, or resistance. This approach has resulted in new understandings about how marginalized communities build solidarity, and respond to and resist dominant culture, laws, and policies that perpetuate inequity. This book contributes to our understanding of testimonio as it relates to methodology, pedagogy, research, and reflection in pursuit of social justice. A common thread among the chapters is a sense of political urgency to address inequities within Chicana/o and Latina/o communities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Equity & Excellence in Education.

Urban Mobilizations and New Media in Contemporary China (Hardcover, New Ed): Lisheng Dong, Hanspeter Kriesi Urban Mobilizations and New Media in Contemporary China (Hardcover, New Ed)
Lisheng Dong, Hanspeter Kriesi
R2,595 Discovery Miles 25 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Popular protests are on the rise in China. However, since protesters rely on existing channels of participation and on patronage by elite backers, the state has been able to stymie attempts to generalize resistance and no large scale political movements have significantly challenged party rule. Yet the Chinese state is not monolithic. Decentralization has increased the power of local authorities, creating space for policy innovations and opening up the political opportunity structure. Popular protest in China - particularly in urban realm- not only benefits from the political fragmentation of the state, but also from the political communications revolution. The question of how and to what extent the internet can be used for mobilizing popular resistance in China is hotly debated. The government, virtual social organizations, and individual netizens both cooperate and compete with each other on the web. New media both increases the scope of the mobilizers and the mobilized (thereby creating new social capital), and provides the government with new means of social control (thereby limiting the political impact of the growing social capital). This volume is the first of its kind to assess the ways new media influence the mobilization of popular resistance and its possible effects in China today.

Sara - Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary (Paperback, 2nd edition): Sakine Cansiz Sara - Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Sakine Cansiz; Translated by Janet Biehl
R689 R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Save R148 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz (codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing years in a Turkish prison, following her arrest in 1979 at the age of 21. Jailed for more than a decade for her activities as a founder and leader of the Kurdish freedom movement, she faced brutal conditions and was subjected to interrogation and torture. Remarkably, the story she tells here is foremost one of resistance, with courageous episodes of collective struggle behind bars including hunger strikes and attempts at escape. Along the way she also presents vivid portraits of her fellow prisoners and militants, a snapshot of the Turkish left in the 1980s, a scathing indictment of Turkey's war on Kurdish people - and even an unlikely love story. The first prison memoir by a Kurdish woman to be published in English, this is an extraordinary document of an extraordinary life. Translated by Janet Biehl.

Apartheid, 1948-1994 (Hardcover): Saul Dubow Apartheid, 1948-1994 (Hardcover)
Saul Dubow
R3,195 Discovery Miles 31 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid in global as well as local contexts. The overall conception of Apartheid, 1948-1994 is to integrate studies of resistance with the analysis of power, paying attention to the importance of ideas, institutions, and culture. Saul Dubow refamiliarises and defamiliarise apartheid so as to approach South Africa's white supremacist past from unlikely perspectives. He asks not only why apartheid was defeated, but how it survived so long. He neither presumes the rise of apartheid nor its demise. This synoptic reinterpretation is designed to introduce students to apartheid and to generate new questions for experts in the field.

Disability and Social Movements - Learning from Australian Experiences (Hardcover, New Ed): Rachel Carling-jenkins Disability and Social Movements - Learning from Australian Experiences (Hardcover, New Ed)
Rachel Carling-jenkins
R4,204 Discovery Miles 42 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophically, historically, and theoretically positioned, Carling-Jenkins is able to then examine disability relationally through an evaluation of the contributions of groups engaged in similar human rights struggles. The book locates disability rights as a new social movement and provides an explanation for why disability has been divided rather than united in Australia. Finally, it investigates whether the recent campaign to implement a national disability insurance scheme represents a re-emergence of the movement. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of both disability studies and social movements.

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