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THE SUNDAY TIMES No 1 BESTSELLER 'Deborah James captured the heart
of the nation' - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal
'Brave, bright, beautiful' - Lorraine Kelly 'Deborah's ability to
find positivity in the darkest of places is an inspiration to us
all' - Davina McCall 'This book has shaken me awake. I gulped it
down in one sitting, then sat and cried... [But] hope is a
character on every single page' - Christie Watson
------------------- I was alive when I should have been dead. In
another movie, I missed the sliding door and departed this wondrous
life long ago. Like so many others, I had to learn to live not
knowing if I have a tomorrow, because, statistically, I didn't. At
the age of 35, I was blindsided by incurable bowel cancer - I was
given less than an 8 per cent chance of surviving five years. Five
years later, my only option was to live in the now and to value one
day at a time. -------------------- How do you turn your mind from
a negative spiral into realistic and rebellious hope? How do you
stop focusing on the why and realise that 'why not me' is just as
valid a question? When Deborah James was diagnosed with incurable
bowel cancer at just 35, she learned a powerful lesson: the way we
respond to any given situation empowers or destroys us. And with
the right skills and approach, we can all face huge challenges and
find strength and hope in the darkest of places. How to Live When
You Could Be Dead will show you how. It will awaken you to question
your life as if you didn't have a tomorrow and live it in the way
you want to today. By harnessing the power of positivity and
valuing each day as though it could be your last, you'll find out,
as Deborah did, that it is possible to live with joy and purpose,
no matter what. Ebury, a division of Penguin Random House, will pay
£2.50 from the sale of each paperback copy of How To Live When You
Could Be Dead by Deborah James sold in the UK to Bowelbabe Fund for
Cancer Research UK. Cancer Research UK is a charity registered in
England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666), Isle of Man
(1103) and Jersey (247).
The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: 'Restoring What Was
Ours' offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of
land restitution programs. Drawing on memories and histories of
past dispossession, governments, NGOs, informal movements and
individual claimants worldwide have attempted to restore and
reclaim rights in land. Land restitution programs link the past and
the present, and may allow former landholders to reclaim lands
which provided the basis of earlier identities and livelihoods.
Restitution also has a moral weight that holds broad appeal; it is
represented as righting injustice and healing the injuries of
colonialism. Restitution may have unofficial purposes, like
establishing the legitimacy of a new regime, quelling popular
discontent, or attracting donor funds. It may produce unintended
consequences, transforming notions of property and ownership,
entrenching local bureaucracies, or replicating segregated patterns
of land use. It may also constitute new relations between states
and their subjects. Land-claiming communities may make new claims
on the state, but they may also find the state making unexpected
claims on their land and livelihoods. Restitution may be a route to
citizenship, but it may engender new or neo-traditional forms of
subjection. This volume explores these possibilities and pitfalls
by examining cases from the Americas, Eastern Europe, Australia and
South Africa. Addressing the practical and theoretical questions
that arise, The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution thereby
offers a critical rethinking of the links between land restitution
and property, social transition, injustice, citizenship, the state
and the market.
The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller 'Deborah James has captured the
heart of the nation' - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
@KensingtonRoyal 'Brave, bright, beautiful' - Lorraine Kelly
'Deborah's ability to find positivity in the darkest of places is
an inspiration to us all' - Davina McCall 'This book has shaken me
awake. I gulped it down in one sitting, then sat and cried... [But]
hope is a character on every single page' - Christie Watson I was
alive when I should have been dead. In another movie, I missed the
sliding door and departed this wondrous life long ago. Like so many
others, I had to learn to live not knowing if I have a tomorrow,
because, statistically, I didn't. At the age of 35, I was
blindsided by incurable bowel cancer - I was given less than an 8
per cent chance of surviving five years. Five years later, my only
option was to live in the now and to value one day at a time. How
do you turn your mind from a negative spiral into realistic and
rebellious hope? How do you stop focusing on the why and realise
that 'why not me' is just as valid a question? When Deborah James
was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer at just 35, she learned a
powerful lesson: the way we respond to any given situation empowers
or destroys us. And with the right skills and approach, we can all
face huge challenges and find strength and hope in the darkest of
places. How to Live When You Could Be Dead will show you how. It
will awaken you to question your life as if you didn't have a
tomorrow and live it in the way you want to today. By harnessing
the power of positivity and valuing each day as though it could be
your last, you'll find out, as Deborah did, that it is possible to
live with joy and purpose, no matter what. Ebury, a division of
Penguin Random House, will pay GBP3 from the sale of each copy of
How To Live When You Could Be Dead by Deborah James sold in the UK
to Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK. Cancer Research UK is a
charity registered in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland
(SC041666), Isle of Man (1103) and Jersey (247).
How do those on the margins of modernity face the challenges of
globalization? This book demonstrates that secrecy is one of the
means by which a society on the fringe of modernity produces itself
as locality. Focusing on initiation rituals, masked performances
and modern art, this study shows that rituals and performances long
deemed obsolete, serve the insertion of their performers in the
world at their own terms. The Jola and Mandinko people of the
Casamance region in Senegal have always used their rituals and
performances to incorporate the impact of Islam, colonialism,
capitalism, and contemporary politics. Their performances of
secrecy have accommodated these modern powers and continue to do so
today. The performers incorporate the modern and redefine modernity
through secretive practices. Their traditions are not modern
inventions, but traditional ways of dealing with modernity. This
book will interest anthropologists, historians, political
scientists and all those studying how globalisation affects
peripheral societies. It shows that secrecy, performed as a weapon
of the weak, empowers their performers. Secrecy serves to mark
boundaries and define the local in the global.
Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform
examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid
South Africa have been produced and contested. Set in the province
of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local
initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the
landless have defied the South African state's attempts to
privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers.
They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven'
version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was
intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain
land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land
reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are
pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land
access by the poor. This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs
and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to
square these symbolic and economic claims on land. Winner of the
inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of
Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform
examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid
South Africa have been produced and contested. Set in the province
of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local
initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the
landless have defied the South African state's attempts to
privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers.
They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven'
version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was
intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain
land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land
reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are
pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land
access by the poor. This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs
and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to
square these symbolic and economic claims on land. Winner of the
inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of
Africanist Anthropology, 2008
'Deborah James has captured the heart of the nation' - The Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal 'Brave, bright, beautiful' -
Lorraine Kelly 'Deborah's ability to find positivity in the darkest
of places is an inspiration to us all' - Davina McCall I'm alive
when I should be dead. In another movie, I missed the sliding door
and departed this wondrous life long ago. Like so many others, I've
had to learn to live not knowing if I have a tomorrow, because,
statistically, I shouldn't have. At the age of 35, I was blindsided
by incurable bowel cancer - I was given a less than 8% chance of
surviving five years. More than five years later, my only option is
to live in the now and to value one day at a time. So how do you
flip your mind from a negative spiral into realistic and rebellious
hope? How do you stop focusing on the why and realise that 'why not
me' is just as valid a question? How we learn to respond to any
given situation empowers us or destroys us. We have the ability in
our minds to dictate our own outcomes - bad or good - and with the
right skills and approach, we can be the master of our lives. How
to Live When You Could Be Dead will show you how. It will awaken
you to question your life as if you didn't have a tomorrow and live
it in the way you want to today. It will show you how to build a
positive mindset and, through this, invite you to think about what
you could do if you believed you could do anything you want. Ebury,
a division of Penguin Random House, will pay GBP3 from the sale of
each copy of How To Live When You Could Be Dead by Deborah James
sold in the UK to Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK. Cancer
Research UK is a charity registered in England and Wales (1089464),
Scotland (SC041666), Isle of Man (1103) and Jersey (247).
"Money from Nothing" explores the dynamics surrounding South
Africa's national project of financial inclusion--dubbed "banking
the unbanked"--which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans
as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement.
Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals the
varied ways in which middle- and working-class South Africans'
access to credit is intimately bound up with identity,
status-making, and aspirations of upward mobility. She draws out
the deeply precarious nature of both the aspirations and the
economic relations of debt which sustain her subjects, revealing
the shadowy side of indebtedness and its potential to produce new
forms of oppression and disenfranchisement in place of older ones.
"Money from Nothing" uniquely captures the lived experience of
indebtedness for those many millions who attempt to improve their
positions (or merely sustain existing livelihoods) in emerging
economies.
"Money from Nothing" explores the dynamics surrounding South
Africa's national project of financial inclusion--dubbed "banking
the unbanked"--which aimed to extend credit to black South Africans
as a critical aspect of broad-based economic enfranchisement.
Through rich and captivating accounts, Deborah James reveals the
varied ways in which middle- and working-class South Africans'
access to credit is intimately bound up with identity,
status-making, and aspirations of upward mobility. She draws out
the deeply precarious nature of both the aspirations and the
economic relations of debt which sustain her subjects, revealing
the shadowy side of indebtedness and its potential to produce new
forms of oppression and disenfranchisement in place of older ones.
"Money from Nothing" uniquely captures the lived experience of
indebtedness for those many millions who attempt to improve their
positions (or merely sustain existing livelihoods) in emerging
economies.
The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: 'Restoring What Was
Ours' offers a critical, comparative ethnographic, examination of
land restitution programs. Drawing on memories and histories of
past dispossession, governments, NGOs, informal movements and
individual claimants worldwide have attempted to restore and
reclaim rights in land. Land restitution programs link the past and
the present, and may allow former landholders to reclaim lands
which provided the basis of earlier identities and livelihoods.
Restitution also has a moral weight that holds broad appeal; it is
represented as righting injustice and healing the injuries of
colonialism. Restitution may have unofficial purposes, like
establishing the legitimacy of a new regime, quelling popular
discontent, or attracting donor funds. It may produce unintended
consequences, transforming notions of property and ownership,
entrenching local bureaucracies, or replicating segregated patterns
of land use. It may also constitute new relations between states
and their subjects. Land-claiming communities may make new claims
on the state, but they may also find the state making unexpected
claims on their land and livelihoods. Restitution may be a route to
citizenship, but it may engender new or neo-traditional forms of
subjection. This volume explores these possibilities and pitfalls
by examining cases from the Americas, Eastern Europe, Australia and
South Africa. Addressing the practical and theoretical questions
that arise, The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution thereby
offers a critical rethinking of the links between land restitution
and property, social transition, injustice, citizenship, the state
and the market.
**As seen on BBC Breakfast** You are stronger than you know, more
positive than you ever thought and you can still LIVE with cancer.
Drink more green juices, eat turmeric, walk for three hours a
day... Arghh, I wanted to scream, run away and tell every
well-meaning person to go and do one! Whilst this book doesn't
advocate throwing all advice down the kitchen sink, it will empower
you to do things your way as you navigate the big C roller coaster.
Deborah James, campaigner and co-presenter of the top-charting
podcast You, Me and the Big C, will take you through every twist
and turn, reminding you that it's okay to feel one hundred
different things in the space of a minute and showing you how you
can still live your life and BE YOURSELF with cancer. Taking you
from diagnosis (welcome to the club you never wanted to join), to
coping with family and friends (can everyone just fuck off
sometimes?!), looking good and feeling better (drink the wine), and
celebrating milestones along the way (drink more wine!), this
inspiring cancer coach in a book will transform your outlook and
encourage you to shout #FUCKYOUCANCER as loudly as you can!
The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic
investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate
is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only
native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence
that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point
out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific
cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical
discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise
that ethnographer and informant occupy different and
incommensurable "cultural worlds." Instead they investigate the
relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists' models
and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights
into this key area of anthropological research.
The relationship between anthropologists' ethnographic
investigations and the lived social worlds in which these originate
is a fundamental issue for anthropology. Where some claim that only
native voices may offer authentic accounts of culture and hence
that ethnographers are only ever interpreters of it, others point
out that anthropologists are, themselves, implanted within specific
cultural contexts which generate particular kinds of theoretical
discussions. The contributors to this volume reject the premise
that ethnographer and informant occupy different and
incommensurable "cultural worlds." Instead they investigate the
relationship between culture, context, and anthropologists' models
and accounts in new ways. In doing so, they offer fresh insights
into this key area of anthropological research.
Deborah James is Professor of Anthropology at the London School
of Economics. Her research interests, focused on South Africa,
include migration, ethnomusicology, ethnicity, property relations
and the politics of land reform. She is author of Songs of the
Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa (Edinburgh
University Press, 1999) and of Gaining Ground? "Rights" and
"Property" in South African Land Reform (Routledge, 2007).
Evelyn Plaice is Associate Professor of Anthropology jointly
appointed to the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Education at
the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Her interests include
land, identity and the ethnopolitics of land restitution, and the
anthropology of education. She has conducted research in both South
Africa and Canada and is the author of .The Native Game:
Indian-Settler Relations in Central Labrador (ISER, 1990).
Christina Toren is Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of St Andrews. Her fieldwork areas are Fiji and the
Pacific, and Melanesia, and her theoretical interests include
exchange processes; spatio-temporality as a dimension of human
being; sociality, kinship and ideas of the person; the analysis of
ritual; epistemology; ontogeny as a historical process. Her books
include Making Sense of Hierarchy: cognition as social process in
Fiji (Athlone, 1990) and Mind, Materiality and History:
Explorations in Fijian Ethnography (Routledge, 1999).
Botswana's rapid transition between 1965 and 2016 from one of the
poorest countries in the world to one rated as middle income has
been extraordinary. Fifty years of change has seen the widespread
disappearance of coal-fired locomotives and popularly used
passenger trains, and ox drawn wagons. Blacksmiths, paraffin lamps,
rondavels and thatched buildings, lime, women carrying buckets of
water, metal water tanks have gone. The list goes on: the
displacement of the round by the rectangular, migrant labour, hand
cranked telephones and party lines, older men in army great coats,
school children with bare feet, guttering and down pipes,
granaries, the decoration of the lelapa, indigenous foodstuffs, the
sub-language fanagalo, the crafts made for domestic needs. Yet
more: changes in clothing, housing, property and vehicle ownership,
means of entertainment, untarred main roads, do it yourself housing
and in many places, general stores. The majority of the photos
selected are of people. This is deliberate. It means that this book
has no photographs that are routinely included in other books - the
country's marvellous wilderness and wildlife, the Okavango and the
Kgalagadi, the sand dunes and places of great natural beauty.
Botswana's rapid transition between 1965 and 2016 from one of the
poorest countries in the world to one rated as middle income has
been extraordinary. Fifty years of change has seen the widespread
disappearance of coal-fired locomotives and popularly used
passenger trains, and ox drawn wagons. Blacksmiths, paraffin lamps,
rondavels and thatched buildings, lime, women carrying buckets of
water, metal water tanks have gone. The list goes on: the
displacement of the round by the rectangular, migrant labour, hand
cranked telephones and party lines, older men in army great coats,
school children with bare feet, guttering and down pipes,
granaries, the decoration of the lelapa, indigenous foodstuffs, the
sub-language fanagalo, the crafts made for domestic needs. Yet
more: changes in clothing, housing, property and vehicle ownership,
means of entertainment, untarred main roads, do it yourself housing
and in many places, general stores. The majority of the photos
selected are of people. This is deliberate. It means that this book
has no photographs that are routinely included in other books - the
country's marvellous wilderness and wildlife, the Okavango and the
Kgalagadi, the sand dunes and places of great natural beauty.
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and
industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour
as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented
narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures
the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the
millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South
Africa. The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with
the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth
century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum
belt in recent years. It shows not only the age-old mobility of
African migrants across the continent but also, with the growing
demand for labour in the mining industry, the importation of
Chinese indentured migrant workers. Contributions include 18 essays
and over 90 artworks and photographs that traverse homesteads,
chiefdoms and mining hostels, taking readers into the materiality
of migrant life and its customs and traditions, including the
rituals practiced by migrants in an effort to preserve connections
to "home" and create a sense of "belonging". The essays and visual
materials provide multiple perspectives on the lived experience of
migrant labourers and celebrate their extraordinary journeys. A
Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art
exhibition entitled 'Ngezinyawo: Migrant Journeys' at Wits Art
Museum. The interdisciplinary nature of the contributions and the
extraordinary collection of images selected to complement and
expand on the text make this a unique collection.
The island of Believable is a place where wondrous characters
develop the skills needed to imagine their greatest dreams, seems
like magic, it's not Tangerine guides children to integrate all the
senses. The vibrant art work is a excellent sidekick to the fun
filled story. This book shows a world of possibilities, choices and
opportunities for children. Parents, grandparents, teachers and
therapists will find this a useful tool. This touching story brings
a new quality of communication to parents. Author and Illustrator
Deborah James, M.A. uses many artistic mediums, because at a very
young age she had parents who encouraged her to express her rainbow
story with art and she had Vision
This book explores the roles of contemporary urban shrines and
their visual traditions in Benin City. It focuses on the
charismatic priests and priestesses who are possessed by a pantheon
of deities, the communities of devotees, and the artists who make
artifacts for their shrines. The visual arts are part of a wider
configuration of practices that include song, dance, possession and
healing. These practices provide the means for exploring the
relationships of the visual to both the verbal and performance arts
that feature at these shrines. The analysis in this book raises
fundamental questions about how the art of Benin, and non-Western
art histories more generally, are understood. The book throws
critical light on the taken-for-granted assumptions which underpin
current interpretations and presents an original and revisionist
account of Benin art history.
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