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Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes

Author : Robert Blackwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147258712X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating and Contesting Identities in Linguistic Landscapes written by Robert Blackwood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection represents contemporary perspectives on important aspects of research into the language in the public space, known as the Linguistic Landscape (LL), with the focus on the negotiation and contestation of identities. From four continents, and examining vital issues across North America, Africa, Europe and Asia, scholars with notable experience in LL research are drawn together in this, the latest collection to be produced by core researchers in this field. Building on the growing published body of research into LL work, the fifteen data chapters test, challenge and advance this sub-field of sociolinguistics through their close examination of languages as they appear on the walls and in the public spaces of sites from South Korea to South Africa, from Italy to Israel, from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar. The geographic coverage is matched by the depth of engagement with developments in this burgeoning field of scholarship. As such, this volume is an up-to-date collection of research chapters, each of which addresses pertinent and important issues within their respective geographic spaces.

The Rocks and Mountains of Cape Town

Author : John S. Compton
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781919930701
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Rocks and Mountains of Cape Town written by John S. Compton and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crossing the River

Author : Hammeren Pedersen, Miriam Aurora
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956550752
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the River written by Hammeren Pedersen, Miriam Aurora and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you realize that one of your most fundamental ideas about yourself is actually false? How do you resituate yourself in a world that has been turned upside down? This book charts the early stage of the author’s journey of gender transition, as well as her process of settling down in South Africa as a fledgling academic. The story is a deeply personal one, but also one that will resonate with other transgender people, migrants, academic hopefuls, and border-crossers of all kinds. As a story of coming to terms with an identity in flux, it illustrates the fundamental open-endedness of all human identities.

The Wealth of the Commons

Author : David Bollier
Publisher : Levellers Press
ISBN 13 : 1937146146
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book The Wealth of the Commons written by David Bollier and published by Levellers Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of "progress" and governance. In short, how they've built their commons. In 73 timely essays by a remarkable international roster of activists, academics and project leaders, this book chronicles ongoing struggles against the private commoditization of shared resources - often known as market enclosures - while documenting the immense generative power of the commons. The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale - but most of all, it's about individual commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources. "This fine collection makes clear that the idea of the Commons is fully international, and increasingly fully worked-out. If you find yourself wondering what Occupy wants, or if some other world is possible, this pragmatic, down-to-earth, and unsentimental book will provide many of the answers." - Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and The Durable Future

Hold the Line

Author : Kim Stephens
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1998958469
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Hold the Line written by Kim Stephens and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating motherhood from the age of 18, Kim Stephens shelved her inner journo and embraced a life of media sales and sports marketing, working with some of the biggest sports brands globally, and locally, whilst pursuing her own ultra-running ambitions. Arguing vehemently against the possibility that she was running from her own truth, Covid-19 wiped out Kim's possibilities for continued escape. After three children, two divorces and a gradual sexual awakening, Kim found herself at 40-something virtually unemployed, with all the time in the world to write, sip gin and study a general response to one of the world's most draconian lockdowns. Her humorous observations of middle-class South African behaviour through the various levels of lockdown earned her a certain notoriety and a degree of viral success, and with that the courage to put it all into a book. Hold the Line tells the story of teenage pregnancy, the situational blindness of white South Africa, the disappointment of divorce and the deep joy found through true awakening. Stitched together with the lockdown writing that Kim penned for a growing base of followers, she shares a more in-depth life story with her usual candid self-deprecation. Written to rattle a few truths from within its readers, Hold the Line ends ironically as the world begins to follow a potential third World War via TikTok.

Shadows of the War

Author : Theodosia Bagot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows of the War written by Theodosia Bagot and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fatal Females

Author : Micki Pistorius
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143526898
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Fatal Females written by Micki Pistorius and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fatal Females, investigative psychologist and former police profiler Micki Pistorius examines the minds and motives of women who kill. Throughout history the view seems to have prevailed that it is not in women's nature to commit violent crime, but Pistorius shows that this is not in fact the case. Women, givers of life, are indeed capable of ruthlessly taking life. She examines more than fifty documented cases of South African female killers, categorised according to the nature of the crime - for example, infanticide, spree killings, stalkers, poisoners - and she presents her new hypothesis to explain the psychology of that rare individual, the female serial killer.

The First Rule Of Survival

Author : Paul Mendelson
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472111397
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The First Rule Of Survival written by Paul Mendelson and published by Constable. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven years ago in Cape Town three young white South African schoolboys were abducted in broad daylight on three consecutive days. They were never heard of again. Now, a new case for the unpredictable Colonel Vaughn de Vries casts a light on the original enquiry; for him, a personal failure which has haunted him for those seven years and has cost him his marriage and peace of mind. A former British government agent, friend to De Vries, provides intelligence on this new case, but is any of it admissible? Struggling in a mire of departmental and racial rivalry, De Vries seeks the whole truth and unravels a complex history of abuse, deception and murder. Challenging friends, colleagues and enemies, De Vries comes to realise he doesn't know who is which. Set against the background of Cape Town and the endless, rolling South African veld, this chilling thriller reveals layer after layer of abuse - physical, political and psychological. Shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger 2014 (Crime Novel of the Year) Praise for Paul Mendelson: 'An excellent, uncompromising crime thriller made even better by its setting ... the story is two journeys in one, and I'm glad I took both' Lee Child 'A jaw-droppingly brilliant crime thriller. Imagine The Killing moved to Cape Town and into the landscape of the hot and dusty African veld' Philip Glenister 'The First Rule of Survival is an incredibly atmospheric, complex and dazzling debut from a thrilling and authentic new voice in crime fiction' Brian McGilloway 'An impressive debut' The Times

Building Apartheid

Author : Nicholas Coetzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317171039
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Building Apartheid written by Nicholas Coetzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a specific architectural lens, this book exposes the role the British Empire played in the development of apartheid. Through reference to previously unexamined archival material, the book uncovers a myriad of mechanisms through which Empire laid the foundations onto which the edifice of apartheid was built. It unearths the significant role British architects and British architectural ideas played in facilitating white dominance and racial segregation in pre-apartheid Cape Town. To achieve this, the book follows the progenitor of the Garden City Movement, Ebenezer Howard, in its tripartite structure of Country/Town/Suburb, acknowledging the Garden City Movement's dominance at the Cape at the time. This tripartite structure also provides a significant match to postcolonial schemas of Self/Other/Same which underpin the three parts to the book. Much is owed to Edward Said's discourse-analytical approach in Orientalism - and the work of Homi Bhabha - in the definition and interpretation of archival material. This material ranges across written and visual representations in journals and newspapers, through exhibitions and events, to legislative acts, as well as the physicality of the various architectural objects studied. The book concludes by drawing attention to the ideological potency of architecture which tends to be veiled more so through its ubiquitous presence and in doing so, it presents not only a story peculiar to Imperial Cape Town, but one inherent to architecture more broadly. The concluding chapter also provides a timely mirror for the machinations currently at play in establishing a 'post-apartheid' architecture and urbanity in the 'new' South Africa.

Family Walks in Cape Town

Author : Tim Lundy
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1928213154
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Family Walks in Cape Town written by Tim Lundy and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For families who enjoy the outdoors and who relish the beauty of the Cape Town environment, this book details 30 short walks in the Peninsula, grouped into five broad areas: Central Cape Town, Atlantic Seaboard, South Peninsula, Southern Suburbs and Northern Suburbs. Richly illustrated with photographs, it offers for each route. Clear, colourful, engaging route map and detailed route description. Directions to the start and approximate time and distance. Effort required; whether the route is pram-, wheelchair- or dog-friendly. Points of interest and ideas for fun and relaxing activities. Accessible, informative and ideal for families of all sizes and ages, from the very young to the very old, this book will be valued by Cape Town residents and visitors alike.

Literary Landscapes

Author : Attie De Lange
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230227716
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Literary Landscapes written by Attie De Lange and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and revolutions in the human perception and appropriation of space. 'Space' for the writers concerned has its political, historical, cultural and gender dimensions as well as its geographical identity.

Hammerman

Author : Mike Nicol
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1415210993
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Hammerman written by Mike Nicol and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish Pescado, Vicki Kahn and one last case. Children find a body in the Strandfontein sand dunes. A populist politician is gunned down outside parliament. His number two executed in bed with a high-class escort. A cabinet minister shot leaving a security estate. A cop assassinated in his car. Another in his beach house. And it all ties back to the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 – as private investigator Fish Pescado is about to discover. He’s on the case, hunting a rogue agent through industrial estates, retirement homes, a farm in the Moordenaars Karoo. He’s also convinced someone’s out to kill his lover Vicki Kahn, lying in a coma in hospital. But he can’t watch over her all the time. Fish and Vicki are about to get hit by history. And history can be brutal, bloody and deadly.

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities

Author : Sebastian Thies
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003860508
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities written by Sebastian Thies and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis. The contestation of the Northern myth of the autonomous subject—the dispositive that contests subject formation in the South by describing it as fragmented, incomplete, delayed or simply deviant, has been a cornerstone of theory production from the South over the years. This volume’s contributions offer an interdisciplinary and transarea dialogue, reframing issues of selfhood and alterity, of personhood, of the human, of the commons and contesting the North’s presumption in determining what kind of subjectivities abide by its norms, whose voices are heard, who is recognised as a subject, and, by extension, whose lives matter. In the context of the shifting dynamics of today’s manifold crises, they raise questions regarding how subjectivities act on or resist such forms of contestation, contingency, and indeterminacy. A major contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the Global South, this handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, researchers and instructors in literature, media and culture studies, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, law, politics, visual arts and art history.

How to Hide Inside a Three

Author : Jane van der Riet
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1776380460
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (763 download)

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Download or read book How to Hide Inside a Three written by Jane van der Riet and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's hard enough being an adult, let alone a functional one. Leigh-Anne feels like neither. A white woman from Cape Town's Southern Suburbs, she's gradually unravelling as wife, mother, sister, daughter and office manager. The story opens in winter with Leigh-Anne lost at midnight on Rondebosch Common. Three losses are preying on her. First, there's her relationship with her ageing dad, who seems to be hiding a secret. Secondly, Leigh-Anne's desire for Samuel, her thin and distracted psychiatrist husband, has run dry, and she can't help thinking about her colleague Omar at NGO Phambili - Omar with the hairy wrists and warm jacket. The third area of loss is through a perceived betrayal of her activist best friend, Gwendal, whose increasing battiness alienates her teenage daughter. Leigh-Anne's children, Tom and Jamie, pipe up from the sidelines. They are oblivious as their mother grows fatter and drunker, her clandestine bingeing a backdrop to their lives. She seeks refuge by ordering her world into threes and multiples of threes, which are presented as lists - quirky, funny and often poignant. Her lists corral her worries and failures but can't fix them. Looming large is the loss of a national dream, evident in the poverty all around them, and personified in Mr Hoody, who lives on the pavement outside Leigh-Anne's local Spar. Leigh-Anne and her siblings discover the sordid secret their parents have been hiding: her father had an affair with the teenage sister of a nurse who worked at his abortion clinic on the Cape Flats during the apartheid years. The girl became pregnant, and Leigh-Anne has a sister, whom she tracks down. Eventually, Leigh-Anne's husband moves out and she starts rebuilding her life - with the possibility that Omar (whose attempted reconciliation with his ex-wife has failed) might be a part of it.

The Cambridge Companion to Cricket

Author : Anthony Bateman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761298
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Cricket written by Anthony Bateman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans and scholars alike, this Companion explores cricket's origins, global reach, iconic personalities and enduring popularity.

J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices

Author : Carrol Clarkson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230245447
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book J. M. Coetzee: Countervoices written by Carrol Clarkson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and his critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates. The book engages with the most recent literary and philosophical responses to Coetzee's work.

Untamed Urbanisms

Author : Adriana Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317599101
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Untamed Urbanisms written by Adriana Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change. For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for sustainability-oriented innovations that address equity and ecological challenges. This book is rooted in the latter category, but recognises that if cities continue to evolve along current trajectories they will be where the large bulk of the most unsustainable and inequitable human activities are concentrated. By drawing on a range of case studies from both the global South and global North, this book is unique in its aim to develop an integrated social-ecological perspective on the challenge of sustainable urban development. Through the interdisciplinary and original research of a new generation of urban researchers across the global South and North, this book addresses old debates in new ways and raises new questions about sustainable urban development. .