Lost And Found In Johannesburg

Author : Mark Gevisser
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374176760
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost and Found in Johannesburg written by Mark Gevisser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An inner-life of Johannesburg that turns on the author's fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions"--

Author : Mark Gevisser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847088581
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatcher written by Mark Gevisser and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of dispossession, a meditation on place, home and identity, as well as a deeply personal account of the social ills of South Africa and the triumph of its people.

Author : Mark Gevisser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781868425884
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost and Found in Johannesburg written by Mark Gevisser and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Nuttall
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381214
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johannesburg written by Sarah Nuttall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the experience of “city-ness” and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. Turning its back on rigid rationalities of planning and racial separation, Johannesburg has become a place of intermingling and improvisation, a city that is fast developing its own brand of cosmopolitan culture. The volume’s essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg’s cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anticolonial projects of Mohandas Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces, including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, built spaces, and life for foreigners in the city. Contributors: Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge, Lindsay Bremner, David Bunn, Fred de Vries, Nsizwa Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Stefan Helgesson, Julia Hornberger, Jonathan Hyslop, Grace Khunou, Frédéric Le Marcis, Xavier Livermon, John Matshikiza, Achille Mbembe, Robert Muponde, Sarah Nuttall, Tom Odhiambo, Achal Prabhala, AbdouMaliq Simone

Author : Mary Trent
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000615294
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diverse Voices in Photographic Albums written by Mary Trent and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a variety of case studies by global scholars from diverse academic fields, this book explores photographic-album practices of historically marginalized figures from a range of time periods, geographic locations, and socio-cultural contexts. Their albums' stories span various racial, ethnic, gender and sexual identities; nationalities; religions; and dis/abilities. The vernacular albums featured in this volume present narratives that move beyond those reflected in our existing histories. Essays examine the visual, material, and aural strategies that album-makers have used to assert control over the presentation of their histories and identities, and to direct what those narratives have to say, a point of special relevance as these albums move out of private domestic space and into public archives, institutions, and digital formats. This book does not consider photographic albums and scrapbooks as separate genres, but as a continuum of modern creative practices of photographic and mass-print collage aimed at self-expression and narrative-building that co-evolved and were readily accessible. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, history of photography, visual culture, material culture, media studies, and cultural studies.

Author : Arnold Benjamin
Publisher : MacMillan South Africa
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Johannesburg written by Arnold Benjamin and published by MacMillan South Africa. This book was released on 1979 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Gevisser
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776191994
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thabo Mbeki written by Mark Gevisser and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed in the Times Literary Supplement as 'probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid', The Dream Deferred is back in print and updated with a brilliant new epilogue. The prosperous Mbeki clan lost everything to apartheid. Yet the family saw its favourite son, Thabo, rise to become president of South Africa in 1999. A decade later, Mbeki was ousted by his own party and his legacy is bitterly contested – particularly over his handling of the AIDS epidemic and the crisis in Zimbabwe. Through the story of the Mbeki family, award-wining journalist Mark Gevisser tells the gripping tale of the last tumultuous century of South Africa life, following the family's path to make sense of the liberation struggle and the future that South Africa has inherited. At the centre of the story is Mbeki, a visionary yet tragic figure who led South Africa to freedom but was not able to overcome the difficulties of his own dislocated life. It is 15 years since Mbeki was unceremoniously dumped by the ANC, giving rise to the wasted years under Jacob Zuma. With the benefit of hindsight, and as Mbeki reaches the age of 80, Gevisser examines the legacy of the man who succeeded Mandela. '...essential reading for anyone intrigued by South Africa's complex philosopher-king.' - The Economist

Author : Irene Kaminsky, Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514422042
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost & Found written by Irene Kaminsky, Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is full of love – of history and family. There are 8 contributors from many cities and countries, whose stories reflect the social and political upheavals of the previous century. There are snapshot portraits painted of people going back 16 generations. The first is David Mitzkun, circa 1580 from Lithuania. The family tree was translated from Hebrew by a genealogist who created a descendants report with most of the names and dates of these 16 generations. The youngest is a toddler in the newest generation. There are photos from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries as well as historical documents. Included in the book is the story of recovery of the tree drawn by the author’s great grandfather and family members who found one and other as result. This wonderful story has been televised as well as printed as a front page article of a New Jersey newspaper in 2014.

Author : Charissa Dufour
Publisher : Charissa Dufour
ISBN 13 : 137012614X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost and Found written by Charissa Dufour and published by Charissa Dufour. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was supposed to be easy. They would drop down to the surface, get Bit’s niece, and return to the Lenore. What could go wrong? The answer, everything. Nothing goes smoothly for the crew of the Lenore, or at least it hadn’t since Bit joined them. Now, Jack has a crew determined to find a lost child hiding somewhere in the known galaxy. The fact the child’s location is protected by a band of violent men makes the task just that much harder.

Author : Leslie Swartz
Publisher : Wits University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776146956
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How I Lost My Mother written by Leslie Swartz and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How I Lost My Mother is a deeply felt account of the relationship between a mother and son, and an exploration of what care for the dying means in contemporary society The book is emotionally complex – funny, sad and angry – but above all, heartfelt and honest. It speaks boldly of challenges faced by all of us, challenges which are often not spoken about and hidden, but which deserve urgent attention. This is first and foremost a work of the heart, a reflection on what relationships mean and should mean. There is much in the book about relationships of care and exploitation in southern Africa, and about white Jewish identity in an African context. But despite the specific and absorbing references to places and contexts, the book offers a broader, more universal view. All parents of adult children, and all adults who have parents alive, or have lost their parents, will find much in this book to make them laugh, cry, think and feel.