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After the end of the apartheid regime in the 1990s, South Africa experienced a boom in new heritage and commemorative projects. These ranged from huge new museums and monuments to small community museums and grassroots memory work. At the same time, South African cities have continued to grapple with the difficulties of overcoming entrenched inequalities and divisions. Urban spaces are deep repositories of memory, and also sites in need of radical transformation. 'Remaking the Urban' examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa's Eastern Cape as a case study.
Urban policy --- Community development, Urban --- Post-apartheid era --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality (Eastern Cape, South Africa) --- Nelson Mandela Bay. --- Port Elizabeth. --- collective memory. --- community museums. --- memorial architecture. --- post-apartheid memorialisation. --- post-apartheid museums. --- public architecture. --- urban heritage. --- urban transformation.
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In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community demand not to write anything at all. The collection also presents some state-of-the-art issues in teaching Indigenous Studies based on auto/biography in Austria, Spain and Italy.
Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Aboriginal Australians --- aboriginal australians --- history --- biography --- Autobiography --- Dalit --- Indigenous Australians --- Nelson Mandela
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apartheid --- secundair onderwijs 1ste graad --- lager onderwijs 3de graad (doelgroep) --- Mandela, Nelson --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1990-1999 --- Vanaf 11 jaar --- Zuid-Afrika --- Politiek --- Apartheid --- Geschiedenis --- 20e eeuw --- Afrika --- 929 )* BIOGRAFIE --- anti-apartheidstrijd --- politiek --- Beroemde personen --- Nelson Mandela --- Nelson Mandela : biografie --- 947 --- Zuid-Afrika: politiek --- Geneeskunde --- Techniek (wetenschap) --- Atlas --- Museum --- Maatschappij --- Film --- Literatuur
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Mandela, Nelson --- 929 NELSON, MANDELA --- 929 MANDELA, NELSON --- 968.0.06 --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--MANDELA, NELSON --- Geschiedenis van Zuid-Afrika: Republiek van Zuid-Afrika--(1961- ) --- 968.0.06 Geschiedenis van Zuid-Afrika: Republiek van Zuid-Afrika--(1961- ) --- 929 MANDELA, NELSON Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--MANDELA, NELSON
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In June 2009, Richard Goldstone was a global hero, honored by the MacArthur Foundation for its prize in international justice. Four months later, he was called a "quisling" and compared to some of the worst traitors in human history. Why? Because this champion of human rights and international law chose to apply his commitments to fairness and truth to his own community. The Trials of Richard Goldstone tells the story of this extraordinary individual and the price he paid for his convictions. It describes how Goldstone, working as a judge in apartheid South Africa, helped to undermine this unjust system and later, at Nelson Mandela's request, led a commission that investigated cases of racial violence and intimidation. It also considers the international renown he received as the chief United Nations prosecutor for war crimes committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the first tribunals to try political and military leaders on charges of genocide. Finally, it explores how Goldstone became a controversial figure in the wake of the Jewish jurist's powerful, but flawed, investigation of Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Richard Goldstone's dramatic life story reveals that even in a world rife with prejudice, nationalism, and contempt for human rights, one courageous man can advance the cause of justice.
Prosecution (International law) --- Judges --- Alcaldes --- Cadis --- Chief justices --- Chief magistrates --- Justices --- Magistrates --- Courts --- International law --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Officials and employees --- Goldstone, Richard. --- Goldstone, R. J. --- Goldstone, Richard J. --- human rights, international justice, Jewish, South Africa, Richard Goldstone, Middle East, Gaza, xenophobia, Israeli-Palestinean conflict, Nelson Mandela, United Nations, war crime, rule of law.
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Examines the importance of South Africa's peaceful transition to democracy, especially in light of Nelson Mandela's belief that cosmopolitan dreams are not only desirable but a binding duty.
Cosmopolitanism --- Postcolonialism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Internationalism --- South Africa --- Race relations. --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Race question --- African Literature. --- African Studies. --- Apartheid. --- Citizenship. --- Cosmoplitanism. --- Cultural Studies. --- Democracy. --- Desmond Tutu. --- Ethics. --- Globalization. --- International Affairs. --- J.M. Coetzee. --- Nadine Gordimer. --- Nelson Mandela. --- Postcolonialism. --- South Africa.
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"This book collects some two dozen pieces from bestselling author Adam Hochschild, written over the past 25 years. All have been published before, most in the New York Review of Books but also in the New Yorker, Harper's, Mother Jones, and elsewhere. They are a mixture of essays about books, authors, one film, and the writing of history and on-the-ground journalism based on reporting from India, Africa, and elsewhere"--Provided by publisher.
World politics --- Political ethics. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- 1960s. --- badly written history. --- california. --- campaign trail. --- center for rape victims. --- cia. --- congo. --- construction sites. --- finnish prison. --- government surveillance. --- gun show. --- heart of an activist. --- historian. --- independent organizations. --- india. --- john mcphee. --- journalist. --- mark twain. --- nelson mandela. --- pioneering architect. --- ruins of gulag camps. --- social justice. --- soviet arctic. --- standing against despotism. --- unjust wars.
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In mid-1990s South Africa, apartheid ended, Nelson Mandela was elected president, and the country's urban black youth developed kwaito-a form of electronic music (redolent of North American house) that came to represent the post-struggle generation. In this book, Gavin Steingo examines kwaito as it has developed alongside the democratization of South Africa over the past two decades. Tracking the fall of South African hope into the disenchantment that often characterizes the outlook of its youth today-who face high unemployment, extreme inequality, and widespread crime-Steingo looks to kwaito as a powerful tool that paradoxically engages South Africa's crucial social and political problems by, in fact, seeming to ignore them. Politicians and cultural critics have long criticized kwaito for failing to provide any meaningful contribution to a society that desperately needs direction. As Steingo shows, however, these criticisms are built on problematic assumptions about the political function of music. Interacting with kwaito artists and fans, he shows that youth aren't escaping their social condition through kwaito but rather using it to expand their sensory realities and generate new possibilities. Resisting the truism that "music is always political," Steingo elucidates a music that thrives on its radically ambiguous relationship with politics, power, and the state.
Kwaito (Music) --- Musicians, Black --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Political aspects. --- South Africa --- Social conditions --- music, musical, musician, aesthetic, aesthetics, freedom, justice, south africa, african, 1990s, contemporary, modern, 20th century, apartheid, nelson mandela, history, historical, government, elections, president, urban, black, youth, young people, electronic, electronica, genre, generational, attitude, outlook, injustice, social studies, poverty, crime, wealth, society.
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In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate,on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent in the world - underscored by the police shooting of 34 striking miners at Marikana in 2012 - regionsof deep poverty and environmental degradation, rising inequality and high unemployment rates. This book looks at this paradox by examining the precise character of the post-apartheid state, and the roots of the hope that something better than the semi-liberation that the ANC has presided over must not be long delayed - both within the ANC itself and within the broader society of South Africa.
The authors present a history of South Africa from earliest times, with today's post-apartheid society interpreted and understood in the context of and through the lens of its earlier history. Following the introduction, which offers an analytical background to the narrative that follows, they track the course of South African history: from its origins to apartheid in the 1970; through the crisisand transition of the 1970s and 1980s to the historic deal-making of 1994 that ended apartheid; to its recent history from Mandela to Marikana, with increasing signs of social unrest and class conflict. Finally, the authors reflect on the present situation in South Africa with reference to the historical patterns that have shaped contemporary realities and the possibility of a 'next liberation struggle'.
John S. Saul is Professor Emeritus at York University (Canada). Patrick Bond is Senior Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban).
Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana): Jacana
Post-apartheid era --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Mandela, Nelson, --- Mandiba, Rolihlahla, --- Madiba, --- Mandela, --- Mandela, Rolihlahla, --- מנדלה, נלסון, --- مانديلا، نيلسون, --- South Africa --- History. --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Since 1994 --- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla, --- African studies. --- Nelson Mandela. --- South Africa. --- anthropology. --- apartheid. --- historical analysis. --- justice. --- political science. --- postcolonialism. --- racial inequality. --- racism. --- scholarship. --- segregation. --- sociology. --- twentieth century.
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