Black Youth Aspirations

Black Youth Aspirations

Author: Botshabelo Maja

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2021-11-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1802620257

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This book is about how to trigger the capacity to aspire among black youth. Examining the transition out of adulthood and imagined futures of black youth, Maja helps us understand how black youth aspirations might be raised, and how a better future for young people can be achieved.


Signs of Signification

Signs of Signification

Author: Norma Presmeg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 3319702874

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This book discusses a significant area of mathematics education research in the last two decades and presents the types of semiotic theories that are employed in mathematics education. Following on the summary of significant issues presented in the Topical Survey, Semiotics in Mathematics Education, this book not only introduces readers to semiotics as the science of signs, but it also elaborates on issues that were highlighted in the Topical Survey. In addition to an introduction and a closing chapter, it presents 17 chapters based on presentations from Topic Study Group 54 at the ICME-13 (13th International Congress on Mathematical Education). The chapters are divided into four major sections, each of which has a distinct focus. After a brief introduction, each section starts with a chapter or chapters of a theoretical nature, followed by others that highlight the significance and usefulness of the relevant theory in empirical research.


The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa

The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa

Author: Maano Ramutsindela

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 3905758873

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This book brings together recent and ongoing empirical studies to examine two relational kinds of politics, namely, the politics of nature, i.e. how nature conservation projects are sites on which power relations play out, and the politics of the scientific study of nature. These are discussed in their historical and present contexts, and at specific sites on which particular human-environment relations are forged or contested. This spatio-temporal juxtaposition is lacking in current research on political ecology while the politics of science appears marginal to critical scholarship on social nature. Specifically, the book examines power relations in nature-related activities, demonstrates conditions under which nature and science are politicised, and also accounts for political interests and struggles over nature in its various forms. The ecological, socio-political and economic dimensions of nature cannot be ignored when dealing with present-day environmental issues. Nature conservation regulations are concerned with the management of flora and fauna as much as with humans. Various chapters in the book pay attention to the ways in which nature, science and politics are interrelated and also co-constitutive of each other. They highlight that power relations are naturalised through science and science-related institutions and projects such as museums, botanical gardens, wetlands, parks and nature reserves.


Twisted and Other Short Stories

Twisted and Other Short Stories

Author: Sophie McNaughton

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-06-09

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 1326697374

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'Twisted and Other Short Stories' is a short fiction collection of nine pieces of horror, fantasy, fairytale, supernatural, Scots fiction and more. "The sea gently rolled towards Murron's soles, frothing along the jagged, crumbling edge of the shore. The cold, crisp scent of salt - usually gauzing the air, ingrained in the island's oxygen - was masked by the toxic chemical smell that made her eyes water and her nostrils sting. The sucrose waves grew, hissing and fizzing as they crashed. Tumbling towards her, touching the tip of her boots, and sucking back again, gradually dissolving the land: molecule by molecule, bubble by bubble, and stone by stone."


The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth

The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth

Author: S. Swartz

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 023010164X

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This book provides an engaging account of the moral lives of young black South Africans once the struggle against apartheid ended and took away their object of political resistance. It shows how partial-parenting, partial-schooling, and pervasive poverty contributes to how a group of young people construct right and wrong and what rules govern their behavior.


Ivy Moon and Other Short Stories

Ivy Moon and Other Short Stories

Author: Sophie McNaughton

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1326025279

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"Her irises had the texture of reptile scales, like small circles of crinkled foil or thin flakes of gold. They burned a radioactive, liquid, lime green that morphed into a murky mustard shade of yellow with the changing sunlight. Even her dense, muddy pupils were hypnotic with their way of dilating and stretching to inky black saucers when she was excited and shrinking to tiny, devilish slits when she was angry. She stood at five foot seven, a few inches shorter than myself with the slender body of a woman but the long, swishing tail and soft, fluffy head of a cat." This collection contains nine short stories which include elements of gothic horror, fantasy, science fiction, romance, tragedy, historical fiction, surrealism, folklore, fairytale and the paranormal. These pieces were written by 18-year-old English Literature and Writing student, Sophie McNaughton during her first year at university.


How People Compare

How People Compare

Author: Mathijs Pelkmans

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-26

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1000845028

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This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why and with what consequences diversely situated groups of people – many of whom operate on radically different premises to professional anthropologists – make comparisons, above all, between themselves and real or imagined others. What motivates people to compare, what techniques or logics do they employ, and what are the most likely outcomes – both intended and unintended? How do comparative practices reflect, reinforce or refuse uneven relations of power? And finally, what can a rejuvenated comparative anthropology learn from the anthropology of comparison? The volume develops a dialogue between scholars with long- term ethnographic engagement in a variety of contexts around the world and is particularly valuable reading for those interested in anthropological methodology and theory.


Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction

Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction

Author: Sabine Binder

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-11-16

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9004437444

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In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime.