Author: Lena Kennedy
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1473673216
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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The evocative, illuminating autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists. Lena Kennedy was sixty-four before her first novel, MAGGIE, was accepted, and it was among the shackdwelling community of the woods that she began to realise her growing need to express her feelings through writing. THE LAST OF THE SHACKDWELLERS examines the inspirations for each of her novels, such as the bestsellers EVE`S APPLES and LILY, MY LOVELY. Lena also vividly describes the long search for a publisher, her joy at finding success and her road to fame. 'Absolutely fascinating' - 5-STAR reader review
Author: Bright Nkrumah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316519791
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Exploring why South Africans rarely use activism to address food insecurity, this study proposes ways to reclaim the power of collective action.
Author: Trevor Ngwane
Publisher: Wildcat
ISBN: 9780745341996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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A fascinating ethnography of the democratic organization of shack settlements in South Africa.
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Publisher: Quivertree Publications
ISBN: 0620288035
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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The triumph of artistic tenacity over adversity is brought to life in Craig Frasers Vibrant Images, which capture the style and innovation of South Africas Shack Dwellers.
Author: California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Children, San Francisco
Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Author: Kenneth Good
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149850244X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Democratization is a sociopolitical process and the society that may grow out of it where people make decisions on matters affecting them. It is an unending struggle to win such rights and power, to hold and to extend them. The contending classes are essentially the poor and weak majority of the people and the elite of wealth, status, and power. This book begins with the study of politics in democratic Athens 508-322 BCE, and how it revolved around the divisions between an uneducated poor majority of citizens and a small, wealthy elite. All citizens were deemed equally capable of holding political office, and life in democratic Athens was itself an education through the wide political experience a citizen necessarily acquired. The second study is of Britain’s centuries long and profoundly incomplete democratization, polarizing usually the urban poor, unequally against the Grandees, the oligarchy, and subsequent elites. A third exemplifier is South Africa, beginning in the 1970s-80s when two big processes were going on simultaneously: an external armed struggle led by the African National Congress (ANC), and a path-breaking domestic democratization represented by the United Democratic Front and the trade unions. The democratization that emerges here is a matter of aspiration and impulse by determined men and women, which fail more often than they succeed, yet appear again in other times and places. Two main models of democracy are in contention. A representative from revolving around free elections, in which competing elites "get themselves elected" utilizing their wealth and celebrity. The liberal form achieved preeminence in Britain and the United States over some 150 years, but is now under serious threat from its own dysfunctionalities and the alienation of its citizens from its institutions and their elitist, self-serving values. And there is the participatory model, now being approached again since the mid-1970s in many places, from Portugal, Poland and Czechoslovakia, to South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, and Iceland. Many such impulses will fail, but they offer hope, and on the record, immense satisfaction to their participants.
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Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 1844072118
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies and the Millennium Development Goals target on slums - "a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020". The report describes and analyses housing finance conditions and trends in all regions of the world, including formal housing finance mechanisms, microfinance and community funding, highlighting their relevance to the upgrading of slums. Recent shelter finance policy development is discussed at the international and national levels, and directions that could be taken to strengthen shelter finance systems ere examined.
Author: Symphony Way pavement dwellers
Publisher: Fahamu/Pambazuka
ISBN: 1906387842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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'A beauty, extraordinary in every way', Naomi Klein, author of 'The Shock Doctrine'Shack-dwelling families in Cape Town who were evicted from their homes write about the vibrant community they created on the street and their anti-eviction campaign.
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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