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Formerly colonised people sometimes play roles that sustain the
power structure of coloniality. In this book, Professor Morgan
Ndlovu asks why and how they can possibly participate in a system
that is responsible for their subjugation. The author uses as an
example the 'staged' performances of non-Western culture in South
Africa, such as traditional healing, and the creation of 'cultural
villages', which while seeming to define and keep alive elements of
an African culture also serve the business of international and
cultural tourism. He compares practices in South Africa with
parallels in India, Australia, Canada, other parts of Africa and
the Americas. He argues that it is not just brute force that made
the survival and continuity of coloniality possible up to the
present but also the control of knowledge that justified and
naturalised the colonial project. Performing Indigeneity provides
an insightful evaluation of what could constitute an 'authentic'
indigenous agency and the pitfalls and prospects of decolonial
practices.
A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful
stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. 'Warm, funny,
biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford You already know
these stereotypes. So often Africa is depicted simplistically as an
arid red landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by
poverty and strife. In this funny and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin
offers a much-needed corrective. He examines each country's
colonial heritage, and explores a wide range of subjects, from
chronicling urban life in Lagos and the lively West African rivalry
over who makes the best Jollof rice, to the story of democracy in
seven dictatorships and the dangers of stereotypes in popular
culture. By turns intimate and political, Africa Is Not A Country
brings the story of the continent towards reality, celebrating the
energy and fabric of its different cultures and communities in a
way that has never been done before. 'Hilarious, ferocious,
generous and convincing. It made me reconsider almost everything I
thought I knew about Africa.' Oliver Bullough 'This book should be
on the curriculum.' Nikki May, author of WAHALA
For more than five decades Walter and Albertina Sisulu were at the
forefront of the struggle against apartheid. As secretary-general
of the ANC, Walter was sentenced to life imprisonment with Nelson
Mandela in 1964 and spent 26 years in prison until his release in
1989. While her husband and his colleagues were in jail, Albertina
played a crucial role in keeping the ANC alive underground, and in
the 1980s was co-President of the United Democratic Front. Their
story has been one of persecution, bitter struggle and painful
separation. But it is also one of patience, hope and enduring love.
This love-awaited biography of two of South Africa's most respected
and loved figures has been written by their daughter-in-law Elinor.
Elinor Sisulu is a journalist who has had unrivalled access to the
subjects of her book and to personal and family letters as well as
previously classified documents from the security police and
prisons. She tells a moving story of a couple who in their
different ways have embodied the struggle against injustice and
oppression in South Africa.
President Volodymyr Zelensky's message to the world - a rallying cry for us all to stand up, support Ukraine and fight for democracy. The words of a man. The message of a people.
Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's story through the words of its president. It is the story of a nation valiantly defending itself from Russian aggression. And it is the story of a people leading the world in the struggle for democracy. Above all, it is a battle cry for us all to stand up and fight for liberty. If not now, when?
'If you want to understand who we are, where we are from, what we want and where we are going, you need to learn more about who we are. This book will help you do just that.' - President Volodymyr Zelensky
All President Zelensky's proceeds from this book will go to United24, his initiative to collect donations in support of Ukraine. United24 is run by the government of Ukraine. For more information, visit u24.gov.ua.
Exploring the manifold relationships between religion and public
administration, this topical book conceptualises and theorises the
diverse influence of religions on the functioning of public
administrative systems across the globe. International and
comparative in approach, this book analyses the social and public
dimensions to religion and its interplay with public administration
as a field of social scientific inquiry and an area of professional
activity. Taking methodological agnosticism as its sociological
perspective to the study of the religious experience, chapters
focus on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintoism, Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam to examine diverse religious compositions
across both secularised and non-secularised societies and political
regimes. The book uses a distinctive theoretical lens to analyse
the influence of religions on organisational fit, public service
motivation, individual and organisational behaviours and values,
bureaucratic discretion, government funding, the delivery of public
services, and the dynamics of social cohesion overall. It provides
a fresh perspective on religion as a source of legitimacy and basis
of accountability, responsibility, and delegation of power in
public administration, institutional quality, and ethics. Students
and scholars interested in the religious dimensions to public
administration, policy, governance and management will find use in
this book’s theoretical analyses. Its empirical findings will
also be valuable to policymakers working in public administration
and leaders of faith organisations engaged in public services.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This
thought-provoking Research Agenda examines themes within economic
studies that have become active areas of commentary for economists
of the Austrian School. Contributors establish their own
distinctive interpretations of how an Austrian Research Agenda
should appear, clearly demonstrating there is no set dogma within
Austrian economics. Chapters provide state-of-the-art dialogues
surrounding the many complex dimensions of Austrian economics,
including the School’s responses to behavioral economics and the
theory of public goods. This book portrays Austrian economics as
constantly evolving and its ultimate endeavour is to prompt further
contributions and discussions surrounding the Austrian School. This
erudite Research Agenda will be highly beneficial for graduate
students studying political economics, market processes and
economic development, seeking to understand the unique dimensions
of Austrian economics. It will also be of great value to academics
endeavouring to conduct comparative studies of different economic
schools of thought.
"Warning. Smoking Kills!" It also corrupts law enforcement officials and eviscerates state institutions. It devours politicians, professionals, business people and ordinary workers in the chase for big bucks and the battle for a slice of an ever-shrinking cigarette market.
Join one of South Africa's former tax sleuths, Johann van Loggerenberg, in a wild ride through the double-dealing world of tobacco's colourful characters and ruthless corporates. Meet the femme fatales, mavericks, mercenaries and grandmasters, and learn how the crime-busting unit led by van Loggerenberg at SARS and its "Project Honey Badger" became a victim of war between industry players and a high-stakes political game driven by state capture.
This is the tale of a few good men and women who dared to try to hold to account a billion-dollar international industry rife with private spy networks, tax evasion, collusion and corruption - ultimately at great cost to themselves and South Africa.
The politics of black education has long been a key issue in
southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial
and class dimensions of schooling, historians have neglected their
distinctive gendered dynamics. "A World of Their Own" is the first
book to explore the meanings of black women's education in the
making of modern South Africa. Its lens is a social history of the
first high school for black South African women, Inanda Seminary,
from its 1869 founding outside of Durban through the recent
past.
Employing diverse archival and oral historical sources, Meghan
Healy-Clancy reveals how educated black South African women
developed a tradition of social leadership, by both working within
and pushing at the boundaries of state power. She demonstrates that
although colonial and apartheid governance marginalized women
politically, it also valorized the social contributions of small
cohorts of educated black women. This made space for growing
numbers of black women to pursue careers as teachers and health
workers over the course of the twentieth century. After the student
uprisings of 1976, as young black men increasingly rejected formal
education for exile and street politics, young black women
increasingly stayed in school and cultivated an alternative form of
student politics. Inanda Seminary students' experiences vividly
show how their academic achievements challenged the narrow
conceptions of black women's social roles harbored by both
officials and black male activists. By the transition to democracy
in the early 1990s, black women outnumbered black men at every
level of education--introducing both new opportunities for women
and gendered conflicts that remain acute today.
In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and
terrible lows - and never more so than in the period since 2010,
during which so much has changed. Few are better placed to give an
insider's view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom
MP. From working cross-party on reform of the European Union to
taking to the stage at Wembley as a key figure in the Leave
campaign, through two leadership bids, Cabinet intrigue, squaring
off against an increasingly erratic Speaker, founding a campaign to
give babies the best start for life and securing a landmark
Spending Review settlement, Andrea's story tracks the ups and downs
of a political career and particularly some of the challenges for
female MPs. In this very personal account, she gives a real insight
into the daily goings-on with ministers, parliamentary colleagues,
civil servants, special advisers, the media and constituents. As a
lifelong optimist, Andrea argues that political careers don't
always - as is so often claimed - end in failure, and explains how,
like a game of snakes and ladders, politics is often about getting
yourself into the right place at the right time.
Brextorians had long suspected that at the time of the Brexit
negotiations, a series of audio recordings were made by and of
government officials. In the year 3563, their suspicions were
confirmed with the discovery of the first cache of tapes:
conversations in the halls of Westminster and in private
residences, secretly recorded in direct contravention of privacy
laws. In The Brexit Tapes, the transcripts of these recordings are
published for the very first time. Compiled by leading Brextorian
John Bull, they offer a remarkable insight into the lost years from
the Referendum to the Second Dark Age, and a clear picture of the
events leading up to the civil war that followed. Directly
challenging the accounts of Brexit provided in The Book of Mogg and
Lord Johnson's Res Brexitica, these transcripts are our first
concrete record of history as it happened and, for the modern
reader, a way to finally understand one of the most tumultuous
periods of British history.
European law has come to influence almost all fields of national
law, including administrative, constitutional, contract, criminal
and even tort law. But what is the European Union? How does it
work? How does it produce European law? This book uses a clear
framework to guide readers through all core constitutional and
substantive topics of EU law. New content includes: a Brexit
chapter covering the negotiation process and the possible future
relationships between the United Kingdom and the European Union,
new EU private international law and EU criminal law sections, and
extended coverage of delegated legislation, human rights and free
movement of persons. All chapters reflect judicial and legislative
practice up to 31st December 2017. Key features include case
extracts accompanied by extensive critical discussion of the
theoretical and practical aspects of EU law, over 100 figures and
tables clarifying complex topics and a companion website with full
'Lisbonised' versions of cited cases and many extra materials.
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In an era of turbulent ocean geopolitics, where environmental
concerns and resource extraction are increasing interest in who
owns what at sea, this timely book examines the international
politics involved in how states delineate ownership and rights in
the ocean. Analysing why some states settle their maritime boundary
disputes and why others erupt into conflict, Andreas Osthagen uses
the innovative approach of combining international law and
international relations theory to examine four countries and their
maritime disputes: Australia, Canada, Colombia and Norway. With a
focus on marine resources, chapters unpack the dispute dynamics
concerning offshore oil and gas, fisheries, and strategic security
concerns. Through an examination of what led these states to settle
their disputes, this innovative book delineates the wider political
and legal factors behind boundary-making at sea and aims to improve
the way that society resolves ocean conflicts. Navigating the
complexities of international law and conflict resolution at sea,
this book will prove a thought-provoking read for students and
scholars of geopolitics and law. With ocean-governance an
increasingly pressing matter on the political agenda of
international negotiations such as UN Climate Change conferences,
it will also prove an informative resource for officials engaged in
ocean affairs, geopolitics, and the law of the sea.
'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly
human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand
post-World War II Europe' Julia Boyd 'One of the best young
historians writing in English today. . . Well-researched,
well-written and profoundly insightful, Beyond the Wall explodes
many of the lazy Western cliches about East Germany' Andrew Roberts
In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East
Germany simply ceased to be. For over forty years, from the ruin of
the Second World War to the cusp of a new millennium, the GDR
presented a radically different German identity to anything that
had come before, and anything that exists today. Socialist
solidarity, secret police, central planning, barbed wire: this was
a Germany forged on the fault lines of ideology and geopolitics. In
Beyond the Wall, acclaimed historian Katja Hoyer offers a
kaleidoscopic new vision of this vanished country. Beginning with
the bitter experience of German Marxists exiled by Hitler, she
traces the arc of the state they would go on to create, first under
the watchful eye of Stalin, and then in an increasingly distinctive
German fashion. From the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, to
the relative prosperity of the 1970s, and on to the creaking
foundations of socialism in the mid-1980s, Hoyer argues that amid
oppression and frequent hardship, East Germany was yet home to a
rich political, social and cultural landscape, a place far more
dynamic than the Cold War caricature often painted in the West.
Powerfully told, and drawing on a vast array of never-before-seen
interviews, letters and records, this is the definitive history of
the other Germany, the one beyond the Wall.
This timely Handbook examines the causes, costs and consequences of
state fragility, advancing key debates in the field. Demonstrating
the multidimensionality of fragility by applying diverse theories
and methodologies, it provides new insights on effective policy
development and application in the context of fragile states.
Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines, approaches and case
studies, the Handbook pays particular attention to the root causes
and drivers of fragility. It centres authority, legitimacy and the
citizen-state relationship alongside state capacity, revealing the
flaws in the reasoning behind previous Western policy interventions
in fragile states. Chapters address a broad range of issues facing
fragile states, from fragility traps, refugees and urbanisation to
recent events including the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine
war and the increasing pressures of climate change. Ultimately, the
Handbook advances the state of both academic and policy knowledge
on state fragility, revealing the deep links between the two. This
Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of
political science, international relations, development studies,
economics, and sociology. It will also benefit practitioners
seeking to improve the effectiveness of their policy proposals.
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