Author: Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN: 1770107959
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
‘One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.’ – NIREN TOLSI Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son’s murder. And displaced by the city’s drive for urban regeneration, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence. The Blinded City recounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings, bad buildings or dark buildings. Tens of thousands of residents, both South African and foreign national, live in these buildings in dire conditions. This book tells the story of these sites and the court cases around them, which strike at the centre of who has the right to occupy the city. In February 2010, while Johannesburg prepared for the FIFA World Cup, the South Gauteng High Court ordered the eviction of the unlawful occupiers of an abandoned carpet factory on Saratoga Avenue and that the city’s Metropolitan Municipality provide temporary emergency accommodation for the evicted. The case, which became known as Blue Moonlight and went to the Constitutional Court, catalysed a decade of struggles over housing and eviction in Johannesburg. The Blinded City chronicles this case, among others, and the aftermath – a tumultuous period in the city characterised by recurrent dispossessions, police and immigration operations, outbursts of xenophobic violence, and political and legal change. All through the decade, there is the backdrop of successive mayors and their attempts to ‘clean up’ the city, and the struggles of residents and urban housing activists for homes and a better life. The interwoven narratives present a compelling mosaic of life in post-apartheid Johannesburg, one of the globe’s most infamous and vital cities.
The Blinded City
Author: Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN: 1770107959
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
‘One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.’ – NIREN TOLSI Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son’s murder. And displaced by the city’s drive for urban regeneration, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence. The Blinded City recounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings, bad buildings or dark buildings. Tens of thousands of residents, both South African and foreign national, live in these buildings in dire conditions. This book tells the story of these sites and the court cases around them, which strike at the centre of who has the right to occupy the city. In February 2010, while Johannesburg prepared for the FIFA World Cup, the South Gauteng High Court ordered the eviction of the unlawful occupiers of an abandoned carpet factory on Saratoga Avenue and that the city’s Metropolitan Municipality provide temporary emergency accommodation for the evicted. The case, which became known as Blue Moonlight and went to the Constitutional Court, catalysed a decade of struggles over housing and eviction in Johannesburg. The Blinded City chronicles this case, among others, and the aftermath – a tumultuous period in the city characterised by recurrent dispossessions, police and immigration operations, outbursts of xenophobic violence, and political and legal change. All through the decade, there is the backdrop of successive mayors and their attempts to ‘clean up’ the city, and the struggles of residents and urban housing activists for homes and a better life. The interwoven narratives present a compelling mosaic of life in post-apartheid Johannesburg, one of the globe’s most infamous and vital cities.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN: 1770107959
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
‘One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.’ – NIREN TOLSI Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son’s murder. And displaced by the city’s drive for urban regeneration, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence. The Blinded City recounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings, bad buildings or dark buildings. Tens of thousands of residents, both South African and foreign national, live in these buildings in dire conditions. This book tells the story of these sites and the court cases around them, which strike at the centre of who has the right to occupy the city. In February 2010, while Johannesburg prepared for the FIFA World Cup, the South Gauteng High Court ordered the eviction of the unlawful occupiers of an abandoned carpet factory on Saratoga Avenue and that the city’s Metropolitan Municipality provide temporary emergency accommodation for the evicted. The case, which became known as Blue Moonlight and went to the Constitutional Court, catalysed a decade of struggles over housing and eviction in Johannesburg. The Blinded City chronicles this case, among others, and the aftermath – a tumultuous period in the city characterised by recurrent dispossessions, police and immigration operations, outbursts of xenophobic violence, and political and legal change. All through the decade, there is the backdrop of successive mayors and their attempts to ‘clean up’ the city, and the struggles of residents and urban housing activists for homes and a better life. The interwoven narratives present a compelling mosaic of life in post-apartheid Johannesburg, one of the globe’s most infamous and vital cities.
The Blind Boss and His City
Author: William A. Bullough
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322274
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520322274
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Smoketown
Author: Tenea D. Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978986155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the neurosis-filled city of Smoketown, where birds are outlawed after being blamed for a devastating plague, three purposes collide to alter the city's future. Genetic artist Anna, seeking a lost friend, creates something beautiful that the city fears.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978986155
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the neurosis-filled city of Smoketown, where birds are outlawed after being blamed for a devastating plague, three purposes collide to alter the city's future. Genetic artist Anna, seeking a lost friend, creates something beautiful that the city fears.
Blind
Author: Rachel DeWoskin
Publisher: Speak
ISBN: 0142424552
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
First published in hardcover by Viking, 2014.
Publisher: Speak
ISBN: 0142424552
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
First published in hardcover by Viking, 2014.
Blinded
Author: KaShamba Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970247278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780970247278
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Blind Population of the United States 1910
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The Blind in the United States, 1910
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census 13th Census, 1910
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Blind in the United States, 1910
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Blind in History and Society: Wisdom vs. Despair
Author: Mehmet Emin Demirci
Publisher: Mehmet Emin Demirci
ISBN: 1005796033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This book will examine all aspects of the relationship between the blind and the rest of society within the framework of the attitudes that represent a most productive area of social psychology. The reader will learn that historic figures did not consider their blindness a hindrance to their achievements, be they famous literary personalities or Nobel Prize Laureate. The lives of outstanding blind persons such as Democritus, al-Maarri, Dühring, Rodrigo, Dalén, Borges, Ostrovsky and even Ray Charles, will be examined while placing blindness and the blind at the center of social relationships, utilizing rich historical presentations and comprehensive analysis. This book will be of interest to many professionals, educators, historians, social scientists and general readers.
Publisher: Mehmet Emin Demirci
ISBN: 1005796033
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This book will examine all aspects of the relationship between the blind and the rest of society within the framework of the attitudes that represent a most productive area of social psychology. The reader will learn that historic figures did not consider their blindness a hindrance to their achievements, be they famous literary personalities or Nobel Prize Laureate. The lives of outstanding blind persons such as Democritus, al-Maarri, Dühring, Rodrigo, Dalén, Borges, Ostrovsky and even Ray Charles, will be examined while placing blindness and the blind at the center of social relationships, utilizing rich historical presentations and comprehensive analysis. This book will be of interest to many professionals, educators, historians, social scientists and general readers.
The New Outlook for the Blind
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description