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Civilising Grass

Author : Jonathan Cane
Publisher : Wits University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776143108
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Civilising Grass written by Jonathan Cane and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilising Grass is a socio-cultural analysis of the lawn on the South African highveld, exploring the complex relationship between landscape and power in the country’s colonial, modernist and post-apartheid eras. Drawing from eco-criticism, queer theory, art history and postcolonial studies, this book offers a lively and provocative reading of texts and illustrations to reveal the racial and gendered aspects of ‘natural’ environments. It argues that the lawn, an ordinary and often overlooked feature of South African everyday life, is neither natural nor innocent. Rather, like other colonial landscapes, the lawn functions as a site of commonplace violence, of oppression, dispossession and segregation. This book explores an eclectic archive of artistic, literary and architectural lawns between 1886 and 2017, analysing poems, maps, gardening blogs, adverts, ethnographies and ephemera, as well as literature by Koos Prinsloo, Marlene van Niekerk and Ivan Vladislavic. In addition, Civilising Grass includes colour reproductions of lawn artworks by David Goldblatt, Lungiswa Gqunta, Pieter Hugo, Anton Kannemeyer, Sabelo Mlangeni, Moses Tladi and Kemang Wa Lehulere. Examination of these and other works reveals the organic relationship between lawn and wildness, and between lawn and human/non-human actors – thereby providing rich and unexpected insights into South African society past and present.

Civilising Grass

Author : Jonathan Cane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781776143115
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Civilising Grass written by Jonathan Cane and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilising Grass explores the history and meaning of the lawn on the South African highveld. Through a close examination of literary texts and visual images, the book explores the history and meaning of the lawn, the social and cultural expressions of land ownership, and such value-laden notions as race, respectability and 'whiteness'.

Art as an Interface of Law and Justice

Author : Frans-Willem Korsten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509944362
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Art as an Interface of Law and Justice by : Frans-Willem Korsten

Download or read book Art as an Interface of Law and Justice written by Frans-Willem Korsten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the way in which the 'call for justice' is portrayed through art and presents a wide range of texts from film to theatre to essays and novels to interrogate the law. 'Calls for justice' may have their positive connotations, but throughout history most have caused annoyance. Art is very well suited to deal with such annoyance, or to provoke it. This study shows how art operates as an interface, here, between two spheres: the larger realm of justice and the more specific system of law. This interface has a double potential. It can make law and justice affirm or productively disturb one another. Approaching issues of injustice that are felt globally, eight chapters focus on original works of art not dealt with before, including Milo Rau's The Congo Tribunal, Elfriede Jelinek's Ulrike Maria Stuart, Valeria Luiselli's Tell Me How It Ends and Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives. They demonstrate how through art's interface, impasses are addressed, new laws are made imaginable, the span of systems of laws is explored, and the differences in what people consider to be just are brought to light. The book considers the improvement of law and justice to be a global struggle and, whilst the issues dealt with are culture-specific, it argues that the logics introduced are applicable everywhere.

Become a Better Writer

Author : Donald Powers
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928466176
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Become a Better Writer written by Donald Powers and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving the quality of your writing starts with rethinking your assumptions and developing healthier writing habits. This book will help you do both. Become a Better Writer: How to Write with Clarity and Simplicity is a practical guide for those who wish to write more clearly and concisely. Drawing on their extensive experience as writers and editors, the authors discuss tools and tips for making your writing accessible and meaningful to your target audience. The book is readable and engaging, covering different kinds of writing (including reports, essays, emails, novels and speeches) across a wide range of subjects. The examples discussed are derived from real-world material and are particularly relevant to the African context. The book will be especially useful to writers of non-fiction.

The Cultures of Entanglement

Author : Suzanne Anker
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839468051
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cultures of Entanglement written by Suzanne Anker and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance to religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political power underline the role of plants as something more than passive objects. Current theoretical and artistic discourses have been seeking access to the world independently of man by focusing on the nonhuman other. The contributors to this volume examine the historical, philosophical and scientific findings that generate this idea. In what way are such perspectives manifest in contemporary art? Do artists develop a particular approach that enables nonhuman life forms like plants, insects or animals to have an impact?

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change

Author : T. J. Demos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000342263
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change written by T. J. Demos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key questions, such as: why and how do art and visual culture, and their ethics and values, matter with regard to a world increasingly shaped by climate breakdown? Foregrounding a decolonial and climate-justice-based approach, this book joins efforts within the environmental humanities in seeking to widen considerations of climate change as it intersects with social, political, and cultural realms. It simultaneously expands the nascent branches of ecocritical art history and visual culture, and builds toward the advancement of a robust and critical interdisciplinarity appropriate to the complex entanglements of climate change. This book will be of special interest to scholars and practitioners of contemporary art and visual culture, environmental studies, cultural geography, and political ecology.

How the Irish Saved Civilization

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307755134
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book How the Irish Saved Civilization written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.

Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines

Author : Martin N. Nakata
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN 13 : 0855755482
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines written by Martin N. Nakata and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Nakata's book, Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines represents the most focussed and sustained Indigenous critique of anthropological knowledge yet published. It is impressive, rigorous, and sometimes poignant: a must-read for anyone concerned with the troubled interplay of Indigenous issues and academic institutions in Australia today. The book provides an alternative reading for those struggling at the contradictor and, ambiguous intersections of academia and Indigenous experience. In doing so it moves beyond the usual, criticisms of the disciplines which construct the way we have come to know and understand indigenous peoples. Nakata, a Torres Strait Islander academic, casts a critical gaze on the research conducted by the Cambridge Expedition in the late 1890s. Meticulously analysing the linguistic, physiological, psychological and anthropological testing conducted he offers an astute critique of the researchers' methodologies and interpretations.. He uses these insights to reveal the similar workings of recent knowledge production in Torres Strait education. In systematically deconstructing these knowledges, Nakata draws eloquently on both the Torres Strait Islander struggle and his own personal struggle to break free from imposed definitions, and reminds us that such intellectual journeys are highly personal and political. Nakata argues for the recognition of the complexity of the space Indigenous people now live in -- the cultural interface -- and proposes an alternative theoretical standpoint to account for Indigenous experience of this space.

Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia

Author : Roderic Broadhurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107109116
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia written by Roderic Broadhurst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys violence in Cambodia from the nineteenth century to the present, testing the theories of Norbert Elias in a non-Western context.

The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in HIstorical Outline

Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000653471
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in HIstorical Outline written by D D Kosambi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indian cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans – if any? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being at one time and in the same region? How could Buddhism spread over so large a part of Asia while dying out completely in the land of its origin? What caused the rise and collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor, or just one more ‘oriental despotism’? These are some of the many questions handled with great insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this stimulating work. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, South Asian studies and ethnic studies.

Black Tax

Author : Niq Mhlongo
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 186842975X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Black Tax written by Niq Mhlongo and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The real significance of this book lies in the fact that it tells us more about the everyday life of black South Africans. It delves into the essence of black family life and the secret anguish of family members who often battle to cope.' – Niq Mhlongo A secret torment for some, a proud responsibility for others, 'black tax' is a daily reality for thousands of black South Africans. In this thought-provoking and moving anthology, a provocative range of voices share their deeply personal stories. With the majority of black South Africans still living in poverty today, many black middle-class households are connected to working-class or jobless homes. Some believe supporting family members is an undeniable part of African culture and question whether it should even be labelled as a kind of tax. Others point to the financial pressure it places on black students and professionals, who, as a consequence, struggle to build their own wealth. Many feel they are taking over what is essentially a government responsibility. The contributions also investigate the historical roots of black tax, the concept of the black family and the black middle class. In giving voice to so many different perspectives, Black Tax hopes to start a dialogue on this widespread social phenomenon.

The National System of Political Economy

Author : Friedrich List
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National System of Political Economy written by Friedrich List and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decolonisation As Democratisation

Author : Siseko H. Kumalo
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796926005
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Decolonisation As Democratisation written by Siseko H. Kumalo and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imperialism

Author : John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperialism written by John Atkinson Hobson and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sowing Empire

Author : Jill H. Casid
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816640966
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Sowing Empire written by Jill H. Casid and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H.Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the "heartlands" of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system - as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities - Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as "European."

The Great Plateau of Northern Rhodesia

Author : Cullen Gouldsbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Plateau of Northern Rhodesia written by Cullen Gouldsbury and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Civilising Offensive

Author : Christoph De Spiegeleer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110579170
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Civilising Offensive written by Christoph De Spiegeleer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the ‘social question’ by ‘civilising’ and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe’s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium, as well as their main international actors. This book aims to place the history of social, moral and educational reform in Belgium during the long 19th century within a broader European perspective. This collection of contributions by both young and established scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds not only fills some gaps in Belgian historiography, but also offers a better understanding of broad epochal processes such as the bourgeois civilising offensive, the expansion of educational action and the historical growth of welfare states.