Globalization Negotiation And The Failure Of Transformation In South Africa

Author : Michael H. Allen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403983070
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa written by Michael H. Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.

Author : Doctor Stefan Andreasson
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 184813603X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa's Development Impasse written by Doctor Stefan Andreasson and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential for post-development alternatives. Examining the post-independence trajectories of Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the book shows three different examples of this failure to overcome a debilitating colonial legacy. Andreasson then argues that it is now time to resuscitate post-development theory's challenge to conventional development. In doing this, he claims, we face the enormous challenge of translating post-development into actual politics for a socially and politically sustainable future and using it as a dialogue about what the aims and aspirations of post-colonial societies might become. This important fusion of theory with empirical case studies will be essential reading for students of development politics and Africa.

Author : E. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137283572
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction written by E. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globalization.

Author : Mehmet Odekon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317475763
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Booms and Busts: An Encyclopedia of Economic History from the First Stock Market Crash of 1792 to the Current Global Economic Crisis written by Mehmet Odekon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and authoritative set explores three centuries of good times and hard times in major economies throughout the world. More than 400 signed articles cover events from Tulipmania during the 1630s to the U.S. federal stimulus package of 2009, and introduce readers to underlying concepts, recurring themes, major institutions, and notable figures. Written in a clear, accessible style, "Booms and Busts" provides vital insight and perspective for students, teachers, librarians, and the general public - anyone interested in understanding the historical precedents, causes, and effects of the global economic crisis. Special features include a chronology of major booms and busts through history, a glossary of economic terms, a guide to further research, an appendix of primary documents, a topic finder, and a comprehensive index. It features 1,050 pages; three volumes; 8-1/2" X 11"; topic finder; photos; chronology; glossary; primary documents; bibliography; and, index.

Author : Hoda Mahmoudi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303079072X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security written by Hoda Mahmoudi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the current thinking and strategies in the field of global peace and security. It is clear that current global public and private institutions are inadequate for the challenges we face today. These challenges cut across borders and require a more coordinated and concerted effort to find workable solutions. This book therefore begins with the question of global leadership and works its way back to the interconnected dynamics of global modernity and conflict. It is divided into four parts, each addressing a fundamental challenge to global peace and security. By exploring how we break out of the current framework, in which we understand global activities and the distribution of resources, and this book provides new ways of understanding the material, cultural, political, and spiritual relations that form the basis of international society.

Author : Diane E. Eynon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319531441
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Economic Development, and Higher Education written by Diane E. Eynon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the intersection, relationship, and connection between higher education, economic development, and gender in post-Apartheid South Africa. In just twenty years, South Africa has rewritten its constitution, restructured its macroeconomic growth and development policies, restructured its higher education system, and made a commitment to provide opportunity for all its citizens, specifically those who have historically been marginalized, women and blacks. Eynon weaves together these unique perspectives to illustrate how these multiple domains map onto women and the critical role they play in the present and future of the country. Gender equality and women’s empowerment and education were considered key drivers to South Africa’s transformation.

Author : Franco Barchiesi
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438436106
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precarious Liberation written by Franco Barchiesi and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship of precarious employment to state policies on citizenship and social inclusion in the context of postapartheid South Africa.

Author : John McGreal
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788033558
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It's Transformation, Contently written by John McGreal and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McGreal's three new books – It’s Reproduction, Contently, It’s Revolution, Actively and It’s Transformation, Contently – continue the ‘It’ Series published by Matador since 2010.

Author : Allison Goebel
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077359759X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Their Own written by Allison Goebel and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa, the most urbanized country on the African continent, displays some of the highest levels of socio-economic inequality in the world. What is life like for low-income African women in urban South Africa in the post-apartheid era? Does urban life offer new opportunities for personal development, equality for women, and freedom? Are there new forms of marginalization and danger shaping women's lives? Why are so many women heading households on their own, and what does this mean for family, livelihoods, intimacy, and citizenship? In On Their Own, Allison Goebel explores women's experiences in the rapidly urbanizing context of post-1994 South Africa. She navigates different layers of urbanization in the country and illuminates the ways through which women's experiences of urbanization differ from men's, and why these differences matter. In an approach that emphasizes women's right to the city, Goebel presents original research in a case study of the city of Pietermaritzburg, features life stories of urban women, and engages with the literature in South African history, politics, gender studies, urban studies, and environmental studies. A revealing study of the ways in which urbanization is creating urgent social, economic, and environmental challenges for South Africa, On Their Own also highlights the fraught legacies of apartheid and the aspirations of post-apartheid society for equality and opportunity across race and gender lines.

Author : James Etim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463005587
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa written by James Etim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa has witnessed massive changes in the last fifty years – from independence through structural adjustment, rule by military juntas in several countries and to a period now where the focus is on how best to prioritize their needs based on resources, national goals and human potential. There is general agreement that human capital is important in economic growth and development. There is always the need to ensure that resources and human capital are used appropriately to advance development. Gender disparities, whether in treatment, access to resources, resource utilization and the law, may in themselves retard or slow down development. Resources and human potential in all societies include how best to ensure there is no gender disparity and to fully tap the resources inherent in women for personal, social and national development. Beginning with the women’s suffrage movement, there has been the push to encourage gender equality worldwide. The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 embodies the commitment of the international community to implement policies that will enhance the political, social, economic, educational empowerment of women. This book highlights the issues affecting women in Eastern and Southern Africa – what role does custom and patriarchy play in gender disparities in education, access to health, problems in the workplace and family relationships? How have women writers in the last twenty years presented the issues of patriarchy, women’s rights, globalism and women’s holistic development? What are recent developments that have helped improve the situation for some women? These are some of the issues that are covered in this book. The thesis of this book is that there have been policies and strategies developed that have worked to empower women. However, vestiges of sexism, gender disparities in several fields still remain and traditions/customs and patriarchy have aided in still keeping women down.div“/div>