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This book addresses all aspects of photodermatology by providing a
clear straightforward introduction to these diseases, their
investigation, diagnosis and management, including the use of
lasers. Each light sensitive disorder and each type of phototherapy
is supported by the principles of the underlying photophysics,
chemistry and biology. Doctors, nurses and technicians all have an
important role to play in the diagnosis of photodermatoses and in
the administration of phototherapy. This concise, richly
illustrated text provides them with valuable insights and a good
working overview of the light related areas of dermatology.
Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African
people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being
in modern Africa. What are the fundamental issues, processes,
agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in
modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in
anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and
peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities
and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life
on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy
of life approach is essential for understanding the social process
in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the
influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who
provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the
politicaleconomy of everyday life as it relates to money and
currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies;
dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic
marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial andapartheid pasts.
Makers of the Caribbean introduces young readers to the lives,
ideas, exploits and achievements of a selection of personalities
who in their individual styles have helped to `make' the Caribbean
we know today. Organized around ten selected themes, the book
recognizes the contributions of Freedom Fighters, Politicians,
Visionaries and Intellectuals, Writers and Performers, Artists,
Musicians and Sports people from the English, French and
Spanish-speaking islands of the Caribbean. The book is written in a
clear and accessible style and the text is enhanced by the
inclusion of portraits and other photographs that will help put
faces to what were previously, only names for many readers. A
selected bibliography is also included to guide readers who will
undoubtedly wish to learn more about their respective heroes. This
introductory biography is intended not only to inform and educate,
but to inspire the young people of the region with positive role
models seen through the lives, achievements, brilliance, and
resilience of these `Makers of the Caribbean'.
Raptors of the World (Helm, 2001) is the definitive handbook to
this most popular group of birds. This new field guide uses all of
the plates from Raptors of the World, with a concise, revised text
on facing pages, to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field
reference covering all 340 raptor species. Several of the plates
have been reworked and repainted for this guide. The book also has
an updated colour distribution map for each species. Much of the
extensive introductory material has been retained in this guide,
with the addition of a complete species list containing all
subspecies and brief details of their ranges. Armed with this
guide, birders will be able to identify with confidence any raptor
encountered anywhere in the world.
James Ferguson (1710-1776) was a Scottish self-taught astronomer,
instrument maker and artist. Of humble background, he became a
highly successful lecturer on experimental philosophy and science.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763, received a royal
pension, and is particularly remembered as an inventor and improver
of astronomical and other scientific apparatus. These include a new
type of orrery, clocks, and his astronomical rotula. His lectures
and books were noted for their clear explanations for a general
audience, and Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's
Principles and Made Easy for Those Who Have Not Studied Mathematics
(1756) was a bestseller. This autobiographical memoir, expanded by
Ebenezer Henderson in 1867, also contains a full description of
Ferguson's principal inventions, with many illustrations.
In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support,
including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the
inadequacy of the nation-state frame of membership that such
schemes depend on is becoming evermore evident, as non-citizens
form a growing proportion of the populations that welfare states
attempt to govern. In Presence and Social Obligation, James
Ferguson argues that conceptual resources for solving this problem
are closer to hand than we might think. Drawing on a rich
anthropology of sharing, he argues that the obligation to share
never depends only on membership, but also on presence: on being
"here." Presence and Social Obligation strives to demonstrate that
such obligatory sharing based on presence can be observed in the
way that marginalized urban populations access state services,
however unequally, across the global South. Examples show that such
sharing with non-nationals is not some sort of utopian proposal but
part of the everyday life of the modern service-delivering state.
Presence and Social Obligation is a critical yet refreshing
approach to an ever-growing way of being together.
In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social
welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash
payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of
South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits
elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These
programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass
unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for
rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of
political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of
distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income
payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to
reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to
ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future
of progressive politics.
In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social
welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash
payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of
South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits
elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death of the welfare state. These
programs' successes at reducing poverty under conditions of mass
unemployment, Ferguson argues, provide an opportunity for
rethinking contemporary capitalism and for developing new forms of
political mobilization. Interested in an emerging "politics of
distribution," Ferguson shows how new demands for direct income
payments (including so-called "basic income") require us to
reexamine the relation between production and distribution, and to
ask new questions about markets, livelihoods, labor, and the future
of progressive politics.
In "The Power of the Purse," E. James Ferguson examines the
intricate financial history of the American Revolution and the
Confederation and connects it to political and constitutional
developments in the period. Whether states or Congress should pay
the debts of the Revolution and collect the taxes was a pivotal
question whose solution would largely determine the country's
progress toward national union. Ultimately, says Ferguson, the
Revolutionary debt fulfilled an important purpose as a "bond of
union." Ferguson's masterful analysis, originally published in
1961, has become a classic among the literature on the American
Revolution.
Multi-disciplinary examination of the role of ordinary African
people as agents in the generation and distribution of well-being
in modern Africa. What are the fundamental issues, processes,
agency and dynamics that shape the political economy of life in
modern Africa? In this book, the contributors - experts in
anthropology, history, political science, economics, conflict and
peace studies, philosophy and language - examine the opportunities
and constraints placed on living, livelihoods and sustainable life
on the continent. Reflecting on why and how the political economy
of life approach is essential for understanding the social process
in modern Africa, they engage with the intellectual oeuvre of the
influential Africanist economic anthropologist Jane Guyer, who
provides an Afterword. The contributors analyse the
politicaleconomy of everyday life as it relates to money and
currency; migrant labour forces and informal and formal economies;
dispossession of land; debt and indebtedness; socio-economic
marginality; and the entrenchment of colonial andapartheid pasts.
Wale Adebanwi is the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the
University of Oxford. He is author of Nation as Grand Narrative:
The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning (University of
Rochester Press).
Development, it is generally assumed, is good and necessary, and in
its name the West has intervened, implementing all manner of
projects in the impoverished regions of the world. When these
projects fail, as they do with astonishing regularity, they
nonetheless produce a host of regular and unacknowledged effects,
including the expansion of bureaucratic state power and the
translation of the political realities of poverty and powerlessness
into "technical" problems awaiting solution by "development"
agencies and experts. It is the political intelligibility of these
effects, along with the process that produces them, that this book
seeks to illuminate through a detailed case study of the workings
of the "development" industry in one country, Lesotho, and in one
"development" project. Using an anthropological approach grounded
in the work of Foucault, James Ferguson analyzes the institutional
framework within which such projects are crafted and the nature of
"development discourse," revealing how it is that, despite all the
"expertise" that goes into formulating development projects, they
nonetheless often demonstrate a startling ignorance of the
historical and political realities of the locale they are intended
to help. In a close examination of the attempted implementation of
the Thaba-Tseka project in Lesotho, Ferguson shows how such a
misguided approach plays out, how, in fact, the "development"
apparatus in Lesotho acts as an "anti-politics machine," everywhere
whisking political realities out of sight and all the while
performing, almost unnoticed, its own pre-eminently political
operation of strengthening the state presence in the local
region.James Ferguson is an associate professor of anthropology at
the University of California at Irvine.
"The Dominican Republic is the land Columbus loved best" runs the
advertising slogan. In celebration of the 500th anniversary of the
explorer's arrival on the island of Hispaniola, the government has
spent a reported US$40 millions on building a bizarre commemorative
lighthouse. In the process, it has bull-dozed the homes of
thousands of slumdwellers to clear the memorial site. "Beyond the
Lighthouse" looks at a country where extreme poverty exists
alongside a booming tourist industry. Where workers from
neighbouring Haiti are literally enslaved in an almost bankrupt
sugar industry. Where political leaders date back to a dictatorship
which ended more than 30 years ago. In its comprehensive analysis
of the Dominican Republic's turbulent history and its current
political crisis, "Beyond the Lighthouse" exposes the inequality
and corruption which lubricate the country's economy. It explores
the complex and tragic relations between Dominicans and Haitians
and the ambiguous role played by the United States. The author also
assesses the popular movement which is challenging a decaying
political system and proposing a radical new form of democratic
participation.
"With "Expectations of Modernity James Ferguson has once more made
an important contribution to the reconstruction of anthropology.
His own vivid ethnography of urban lives in the late twentieth
century offers new understandings of culture and cosmopolitanism,
while his sense of the wider picture helps us see Africa, in a
difficult period, as the continent which contemporary globalization
rhetoric conveniently forgets. This is contemporary anthropology of
the most relevant, responsible and intellectually sophisticated
kind." --Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University
"A deeply thoughtful book, written with enormous sensitivity. I
much admired Ferguson's very original take on African 'modernity.'
His engagement with cultural studies is always informed by a deep
historical understanding and an appreciation of economic realities.
He connects critically but sympathetically with both his informants
and with earlier generations of urban anthropologists. The book is
often moving--the hardships of life in this 'abject' postmodern
setting are too evident, but the amazing creativity of urban
'citemene' culture is wonderfully described. And Ferguson's account
of the fraught, conflictual and sometimes violent nature of gender
relations is extremely important. Certainly one of the best books
on Africa I have read in recent years, this will be required
reading for anthropologists and historians." --Megan Vaughan,
Oxford University
The D-8 (Developing Eight) organisation was officially formed in
1997 and has Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria,
Pakistan and Turkey as full members. The D-8 economies encompass
nearly 62% of the Muslim population or about 1.17 billion people
globally. The economic, cultural, social, political and
geographical diversity that exists amongst the D-8 member countries
differs radically from other Muslim or regional blocks.
Furthermore, D-8 member countries are developing economies that do
not solely rely on oil, ancient civilizations, or roles as
historical powerhouses, but their populations aspire to be better
educated, scientifically more advanced, have higher incomes and
improved human rights. It is imperative to study the implications
of these developments for cultural identity and life quality. This
book studies the contemporary socio-economic developments and
challenges faced by D-8 countries. It explores questions on the
socio-economic and political formation, sustainability, economic
participation, and the vitality of the D-8 member countries. It
deepens our understanding of recent global economic systems and
governance, and suggests areas for future research and
publications.
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