Contemporary social issues
Cases in Gaborone, Kampala, and Durban
Published on 10. January 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-0-7983-0244-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume comprises of incisive and perceptive essays that analyse social issues in contemporary post-colonial and post-apartheid Africa using cases in three African cities - Durban in South Africa, Gaborone in Botswana, and Kampala in Uganda. It is an outcome of collaboration by colleagues from Universities of Kwazulu-Natal, Makerere, Botswana and Dar es Salaam to establish a structured, collaborative scholarly partnership programme. The partnership is called Rethinking Africa Programme, which is consistent with the 21st century ideals of Africa's renewal. Its key objective is to re-think Africa through academic and research initiatives sensitive to our own experiences as Africans, as well as through a critical revisiting of western-based social sciences in order to build new analytical models and concepts that capture processes and dynamics that derive from African experiences. It thus has as its related aim, to counter the proliferation of texts by western scholars on African social issues which dominate lecture rooms and libraries as teaching and learning resources in African universities.
It is hoped that this volume will encourage future partnerships on research and teaching of contemporary African social issues amongst African scholars within the continent. Further, it should serve as a teaching and training resource for academic programmes with strong focus on social issues in Africa today.
It is hoped that this volume will encourage future partnerships on research and teaching of contemporary African social issues amongst African scholars within the continent. Further, it should serve as a teaching and training resource for academic programmes with strong focus on social issues in Africa today.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pretoria
South Africa
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7983-0244-9 (9780798302449)
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Content
Sport, leisure and politics in South Africa: Construction of 2010 FIFA World Cup stadia: An overview of Cape Town and Durban; The influence of global sports culture on South African Football; Politics, power and money: The evil triplets of the new South Africa; Migrants in a 'State of Exception': Xenophobia and the role of the post-apartheid state; The journey from death to life: I was told that life is out there' - A case study of Congolese immigrants in Durban, South Africa; The changing face of urbanisation in Botswana: 'The city is for work, the village is Home?'; Challenges facing informal sector micro-enterprises in Newlands West, Durban: A case study of female-owned home-based dressmaking micro-enterprises; 'Singabasebenzi Thina': Factory regime, worker consciousness and organisation - A case study of Dunlop, Durban; Street traders in Durban: A case study of fresh vegetable, herb and fruit trader in Durban's Warwick avenue education, gender, poverty and social movements in Africa; Fieldwork and teaching contemporary sociology: Some experiences from Uganda; Violence in schools in post-apartheid South Africa - Case studies of two secondary schools in the eThekwini region, KwaZulu-Natal; Living on the margins: The effects of intergenerational poverty amongst youth at Cato Manor in Durban; Excluded from within: Gender, identity and social reconstruction in post-colonial Africa; Challenges facing poverty relief projects in the urban renewal programme of Inanda in the eThekwini municipality; Gender, inheritance laws, and practice: Experiences of urban widows in Uganda; Contesting social issues in the pre- and post-democratic South Africa: The emergence of new social movements.