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Keith Gottschalk is one of very few English language poets after
Walt Whitman to compose poems celebrating engineers, inventions,
and scientists. With wit and paradox, these poems explore our solar
system, and celebrate astronomers and spaceflight. This collection
opens with an imaginary trip through time from Copernicus to
Einstein - those who literally made space as we conceptualise it
today. It closes with an imaginary trip through our solar system.
In between, we find moving elegies to astronauts who lost their
lives, and celebrations of a glittering international constellation
of engineers, inventors, mathematicians, and researchers. Irony,
allusions, double-entendres, and wonderment are always looking over
the reader's shoulder. Many of these poems, composed over
thirty-four years, have already been individually published to
acclaim in literary and other magazines.
The death of Nelson Mandela on 5 December 2013 was in a sense a
wake-up call for South Africans, and a time to reflect on what has
been achieved since 'those magnificent days in late April 1994' (as
the editors of this volume put it) 'when South Africans of all
colours voted for the first time in a democratic election'. In a
time of recall and reflection it is important to take account, not
only of the dramatic events that grip the headlines, but also of
other signposts that indicate the shape and characteristics of a
society. The New South African Review looks, every year, at some of
these signposts, and the essays in this fourth volume of the series
again examine and analyse a broad spectrum of issues affecting the
country. They tackle topics as diverse as the state of organised
labour; food retailing; electricity generation; access to
information; civil courage; the school system; and - looking
outside the country to its place in the world - South Africa's
relationships with north-east Asia, with Israel and with its
neighbours in the southern African region. Taken together, these
essays give a multidimensional perspective on South Africa's
democracy as it turns twenty, and will be of interest to general
readers while being particularly useful to students and
researchers.
"The African Union's Africa: New Pan-African Initiatives in Global
Governance "examines the initiatives of the Pan-African global
governance institution the African Union (AU) as the organization
and its precursor commemorate their Jubilee as international
actors. Taking a unique approach, the book seeks to explain the AU
through a theoretical framework referred to as "the African Union
phenomenon," capturing the international organization's efforts to
transform the national politics of Africa as well as to globalize
the practice of African politics. The authors examine Africa's
self-determined international norms and values such as
Pan-Africanism, African Solutions to African Problems, Hybrid
Democracy, Pax Africana, and the African Economic Community to
demonstrate that Africa--the world's least developed region--is
composed of crucial values, institutions, agents, actors, and
forces that are, through the AU, contributing to the advancement of
contemporary global development. The book reveals how in the areas
of cultural identity, democracy, security, and economic development
Africans are infusing new politics, economics, and cultures into
globalization representing the collective will and imprint of
African agency, decisions, ideas, identities, practices, and
contexts. Via a Pan-African vision, the AU is having both regional
and global impact, generating exciting possibilities and
complicated challenges.
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