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This is an edition of Power, wealth and global equity, the textbook
on International relations aimed at students in and of Africa. Like
its predecessors, this edition is aimed at students taking
introductory courses in international relations and in African
Studies. However, many of the chapters will also appeal to readers
interested in contemporary African affairs, and can be used by
students in the fields of Foreign policy, Comparative politics,
History and political economy. Challenging the intellectual
hegemony of 'the North', the authors show what the world and its
patterns of power, wealth and privilege/marginalisation look like
from an African perspective. By helping the reader to understand
the origins and dynamics of the structures and institutions and
trans-border political and economic interaction in today's world,
the book also empowers students to become active players on the
global stage and to contribute to changing these structures and
institutions for the better.
The essays in this collection address the relationship between
children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young
people. The collection overall is concerned with how cultural
memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and
(re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national
narratives, and often for the benefit of young readers who are
assumed not to possess any prior cultural memory. From the
innovative development of school libraries in the 1920s to the role
of utopianism in fixing cultural memory for teen readers, it
provides a critical look into children and ideologies of childhood
as they are represented in a broad spectrum of texts, including
film, poetry, literature, and architecture from Canada, the United
States, Japan, Germany, Britain, India, and Spain. These cultural
forms collaborate to shape ideas and values, in turn contributing
to dominant discourses about national and global citizenship. The
essays included in the collection imply that childhood is an
oft-imagined idealist construction based in large part on
participation, identity, and perception; childhood is invisible and
tangible, exciting and intriguing, and at times elusive even as
cultural and literary artifacts recreate it. Children and Cultural
Memory in Texts of Childhood is a valuable resource for scholars of
children's literature and culture, readers interested in childhood
and ideology, and those working in the fields of diaspora and
postcolonial studies.
Backcountry Slave Trader explores the life of William James Smith,
a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, whose entries in his
business ledger and his correspondence were of unusual specificity.
The authors' analyze these entries and his correspondence, which
they argue provide details about the institutional features of the
domestic slave trade not found in earlier published works. The
authors examine the attitude of Smith and how he conducted his
business, and reveal that the interior slave trade and the
characterization of the slave trader are more nuanced than
previously thought.
This volume discusses the aesthetic and cognitive challenges of
modern picturebooks from different countries, such as Denmark,
France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and USA.
The overarching issue concerns the mutual relationship between
representation and narration by means of the picturebooks'
multimodal character. Moreover, this volume includes the main lines
of debate and approaches to picturebooks by international leading
researchers in the field. Topics covered are the impact of
paratexts and interpictorial allusions, the relationship between
artists' books, crossover picturebooks, and picturebooks for
adults, the narrative defiance of wordless picturebooks, the
representation of emotions in images and text, and the depiction of
hybrid characters in picturebooks. The enlargement of the
picturebook corpus beyond an Anglo-American picturebook canon opens
up new horizons and highlights the diverging styles and genre
shifts in modern picturebooks. This tendency also demonstrates the
influence of specific authors and illustrators on the appreciation
of the picturebook genre, as in the case of Astrid Lindgren's
picturebooks and the picturebooks created by renowned illustrators,
such as Anthony Browne, Wolf Erlbruch, Stian Hole, and Bruno
Munari. This book will be the definite contribution to contemporary
picturebook research for many years to come.
Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for
Children's Literature in an updated edition Over the past decade,
there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many
areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant
scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywords for Children’s
Literature presents original essays on essential terms and concepts
in the field. Covering ideas from “Aesthetics” to “Voice,”
an impressive multidisciplinary cast of scholars explores and
expands on the vocabulary central to the study of children’s
literature. The second edition of this Keywords volume goes beyond
disciplinary and national boundaries. Across fifty-nine print
essays and nineteen online essays, it includes contributors from
twelve countries and an international advisory board from over a
dozen more. The fully revised and updated selection of critical
writing—more than half of the essays are new to this
edition—reflects an intentionally multinational perspective,
taking into account non-English traditions and what childhood looks
like in an age of globalization. All authors trace their
keyword’s uses and meanings: from translation to poetry, taboo to
diversity, and trauma to nostalgia, the book’s scope, clarity,
and interdisciplinary play between concepts make this new edition
of Keywords for Children’s Literature essential reading for
scholars and students alike.
The essays in this collection address the relationship between
children and cultural memory in texts both for and about young
people. The collection overall is concerned with how cultural
memory is shaped, contested, forgotten, recovered, and
(re)circulated, sometimes in opposition to dominant national
narratives, and often for the benefit of young readers who are
assumed not to possess any prior cultural memory. From the
innovative development of school libraries in the 1920s to the role
of utopianism in fixing cultural memory for teen readers, it
provides a critical look into children and ideologies of childhood
as they are represented in a broad spectrum of texts, including
film, poetry, literature, and architecture from Canada, the United
States, Japan, Germany, Britain, India, and Spain. These cultural
forms collaborate to shape ideas and values, in turn contributing
to dominant discourses about national and global citizenship. The
essays included in the collection imply that childhood is an
oft-imagined idealist construction based in large part on
participation, identity, and perception; childhood is invisible and
tangible, exciting and intriguing, and at times elusive even as
cultural and literary artifacts recreate it. Children and Cultural
Memory in Texts of Childhood is a valuable resource for scholars of
children's literature and culture, readers interested in childhood
and ideology, and those working in the fields of diaspora and
postcolonial studies.
Given the rise of globalization and coinciding increase in cultural
clashes among diverse nations, it has become eminently clear to
scholars of political thought that there exists a critical gap in
the knowledge of non-Western philosophies and how Western thought
has been influenced by them. This gap has led to a severely
diminished capacity of both state and nonstate actors to
communicate effectively on a global scale. The political theorists,
area scholars, and intellectual historians gathered here by Takashi
Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman examine the exchange of political
ideas between Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the early
twentieth century. They establish the need for comparative
political thought, showing that in order to fully grasp the origins
and achievements of the West, historians of political thought must
incorporate Asian political discourse and ideas into their
understanding. By engaging in comparative studies, this volume
proves the necessity of a cross-disciplinary approach in guiding
the study of the global history of political thought.
Are ordinary citizens capable of shaping foreign policy? To answer
this question, fifteen established and emerging scholars use South
Africa as a case study to assess the extent to which democratic
consolidation can be translated into the realm of foreign policy.
Contributors discuss the South African Development Community as an
arena of transnational democracy, the impact of European Union
trade policy, and the significance of South Africa's controversial
'arms deals' as they explore the opportunities and constraints
facing recently democratized societies in the Southern Hemisphere.
Democratizing Foreign Policy? Lessons from South Africa provides a
broad-ranging assessment investigating conceptual issues regarding
the role of women, think tanks, civil society, labor movements, and
the impact of globalization upon the process of foreign policy
making of the opportunities and challenges involved in opening the
process of foreign policy making to civil society and the need to
do so if the developing world is to better manage the complexities
of globalization."
Emerging regional powers such as India, Brazil and South Africa
pose a challenge to the global order, but it is not always clear
what and how fundamental that challenge is. This edited volume
highlights various dimensions and interpretations of that
challenge, arguing that it is characterized by internal tensions.
On the one hand these states pursue the global redistribution of
material, institutional, and symbolic resources in the name of
promoting global justice. They also promote South-South solidarity
by providing modest amounts of assistance to selected least
developed states. On the other hand, regional powers gain at least
some of their global legitimacy and identities from their largely
unacknowledged role as pillars of an order that undermines the
opportunities for redistributive change. Their domestic politics
and regional policies also place distinct limits on the extent of
the global redistribution that they can pursue credibly. This book
was published as a special issue of Global Society.
This volume discusses the aesthetic and cognitive challenges of
modern picturebooks from different countries, such as Denmark,
France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and USA.
The overarching issue concerns the mutual relationship between
representation and narration by means of the picturebooks'
multimodal character. Moreover, this volume includes the main lines
of debate and approaches to picturebooks by international leading
researchers in the field. Topics covered are the impact of
paratexts and interpictorial allusions, the relationship between
artists' books, crossover picturebooks, and picturebooks for
adults, the narrative defiance of wordless picturebooks, the
representation of emotions in images and text, and the depiction of
hybrid characters in picturebooks. The enlargement of the
picturebook corpus beyond an Anglo-American picturebook canon opens
up new horizons and highlights the diverging styles and genre
shifts in modern picturebooks. This tendency also demonstrates the
influence of specific authors and illustrators on the appreciation
of the picturebook genre, as in the case of Astrid Lindgren's
picturebooks and the picturebooks created by renowned illustrators,
such as Anthony Browne, Wolf Erlbruch, Stian Hole, and Bruno
Munari. This book will be the definite contribution to contemporary
picturebook research for many years to come.
Emerging regional powers such as India, Brazil and South Africa
pose a challenge to the global order, but it is not always clear
what and how fundamental that challenge is. This edited volume
highlights various dimensions and interpretations of that
challenge, arguing that it is characterized by internal tensions.
On the one hand these states pursue the global redistribution of
material, institutional, and symbolic resources in the name of
promoting global justice. They also promote South-South solidarity
by providing modest amounts of assistance to selected least
developed states. On the other hand, regional powers gain at least
some of their global legitimacy and identities from their largely
unacknowledged role as pillars of an order that undermines the
opportunities for redistributive change. Their domestic politics
and regional policies also place distinct limits on the extent of
the global redistribution that they can pursue credibly. This book
was published as a special issue of Global Society.
Backcountry Slave Trader explores the life of William James Smith,
a South Carolina backcountry slave trader, whose entries in his
business ledger and his correspondence were of unusual specificity.
The authors' analyze these entries and his correspondence, which
they argue provide details about the institutional features of the
domestic slave trade not found in earlier published works. The
authors examine the attitude of Smith and how he conducted his
business, and reveal that the interior slave trade and the
characterization of the slave trader are more nuanced than
previously thought.
Radical leftist stories...for children In 1912, a revolutionary
chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the
"egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand
and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a
gender and is happy about it. Rather than teaching children to obey
authority, to conform, or to seek redemption through prayer,
twentieth-century leftists encouraged children to question the
authority of those in power. Tales for Little Rebels collects
forty-three mostly out-of-print stories, poems, comic strips,
primers, and other texts for children that embody this radical
tradition. These pieces reflect the concerns of twentieth-century
leftist movements, like peace, civil rights, gender equality,
environmental responsibility, and the dignity of labor. They also
address the means of achieving these ideals, including taking
collective action, developing critical thinking skills, and
harnessing the liberating power of the imagination. Some of the
authors and illustrators are familiar, including Lucille Clifton,
Syd Hoff, Langston Hughes, Walt Kelly, Norma Klein, Munro Leaf,
Julius Lester, Eve Merriam, Charlotte Pomerantz, Carl Sandburg, and
Dr. Seuss. Others are relatively unknown today, but their work
deserves to be remembered. (Each of the pieces includes an
introduction and a biographical sketch of the author.) From the
anti-advertising message of Johnny Get Your Money's Worth (and Jane
Too)! (1938) to the entertaining lessons in ecology provided by The
Day They Parachuted Cats on Borneo (1971), and Sandburg's mockery
of war in Rootabaga Pigeons (1923), these pieces will thrill
readers intrigued by politics and history-and anyone with a love of
children's literature, no matter what age.
Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth
Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such
popular children's books as "The Carrot Seed and How to Make an
Earthquake." Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's
classic "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and the groundbreaking comic
strip "Barnaby." Krauss wrote over a dozen children's books
illustrated by others, and pioneered the use of spontaneous,
loose-tongued kids in children's literature. Together, Johnson and
Krauss's style--whimsical writing, clear and minimalist drawing,
and a child's point-of-view--is among the most revered and
influential in children's literature and cartooning, inspiring the
work of Maurice Sendak, Charles M. Schulz, Chris Van Allsburg, and
Jon Scieszka.
This critical biography examines their lives and careers,
including their separate achievements when not collaborating. Using
correspondence, sketches, contemporary newspaper and magazine
accounts, archived and personal interviews, author Philip Nel draws
a compelling portrait of a couple whose output encompassed
children's literature, comics, graphic design, and the fine arts.
Their mentorship of now-famous illustrator Maurice Sendak ("Where
the Wild Things Are") is examined at length, as is the couple's
appeal to adult contemporaries such as Duke Ellington and Dorothy
Parker. Defiantly leftist in an era of McCarthyism and Cold War
paranoia, Johnson and Krauss risked collaborations that often
contained subtly rendered liberal themes. Indeed, they were under
FBI surveillance for years. Their legacy of considerable success
invites readers to dream and to imagine, drawing paths that take
them anywhere they want to go.
Racism is resilient, duplicitous, and endlessly adaptable, so it is
no surprise that America is again in a period of civil rights
activism. A significant reason racism endures is because it is
structural: it's embedded in culture and in institutions. One of
the places that racism hides-and thus perhaps the best place to
oppose it-is books for young people. Was the Cat in the Hat Black?
presents five serious critiques of the history and current state of
children's literature tempestuous relationship with both implicit
and explicit forms of racism. The book fearlessly examines topics
both vivid-such as The Cat in the Hat's roots in blackface
minstrelsy-and more opaque, like how the children's book industry
can perpetuate structural racism via whitewashed covers even while
making efforts to increase diversity. Rooted in research yet
written with a lively, crackling touch, Nel delves into years of
literary criticism and recent sociological data in order to show a
better way forward. Though much of what is proposed here could be
endlessly argued, the knowledge that what we learn in childhood
imparts both subtle and explicit lessons about whose lives matter
is not debatable. The text concludes with a short and stark
proposal of actions everyone-reader, author, publisher, scholar,
citizen- can take to fight the biases and prejudices that infect
children's literature. While Was the Cat in the Hat Black? does not
assume it has all the answers to such a deeply systemic problem,
its audacity should stimulate discussion and activism.
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The book provides the connection of ancestors and humankind, how
ukuthwasa could be understood as well as the role and value of
dreams in ukuthwasa. The life histories of amagqirha create a
deeper insight on understanding the spiritual journey of ukuthwasa
as it links the previous theoretical information on
interconnections between ukuthwasa, ancestors and the complex world
of supernatural powers, ritual and symbolism. The author's
experiences on the journey of ukuthwasa provide a point of
reference throughout the study. The full description of ukuthwasa
training process as it unfolds up to the internship stage,
including rituals involved at various stages as well as their
contribution in constructing the understanding of 'self' and
healing identities by amagqirha elucidate more understanding to
ukuthwasa. Reflections on the interface between ukuthwasa and
Christianity are provided and a broad discussion is provided on the
two key rituals performed in the process of ukuthwasa. General
conclusions, limitations of the study and recommendations for
future studies are provided.
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