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For the City Yet to Come
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

For the City Yet to Come

Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa’s burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only temporary compensation for fundamental failure. In For the City Yet to Come, AbdouMaliq Simone argues that by overlooking all that does work in Africa’s cities, this perspective forecloses opportunities to capitalize on existing informal economies and structures in development efforts within Africa and to apply lessons drawn from them to rapidly growing urban areas around the world. Simone contends that Africa’s cities do work on some level and to t...

The Local Politics of Global English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

The Local Politics of Global English

The status of English as a global language is deeply divisive and hotly contested. The Local Politics of Global English analyzes linguistic globalization in five countries that differ greatly in both their degree of global integration and their use of English. By drawing on the work of language scholars and the growing field of globalization studies, the author provides a revealing portrait of how politicians, activists, scholars and policy-makers in the United States, France, India, South Africa, and Nepal are debating the questions that plague local controversies over global English. Concepts of hegemony and resistance, elites and subalterns, and liberalization and democratization are incorporated into case studies that provide insight into the politics of linguistic globalization from above and from below. Of interest to students of politics and culture, as well as teachers and learners of language, The Local Politics of Global English is a detailed examination of a timely and controversial topic.

Who's who of Southern Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 688

Who's who of Southern Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vols. for 1967-70 include as a section: Who's who of Rhodesia, Mauritius, Central and East Africa.

Focus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Focus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Ecosystem Services in the Gariep Basin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 165

Ecosystem Services in the Gariep Basin

This assessment report is a component of the multiple-scale southern African sub-global assessment (SAfMA), which investigated the condition and trends of ecosystem services and human well-being in the Gariep basin from 1993 to 2003, as well as future scenarios and possible responses to ecosystem change. The assessment features highlights from four local-scale assessments nested within the basin: Sehlabathebe, Great Fish River, Richtersveld and the Gauteng Province.

Law, Language and the Multilingual State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Law, Language and the Multilingual State

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-03
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  • Publisher: UJ Press

The theme of the conference, “Language, Law and the Multilingual State”, was determined to investigate the state-juridical challenges facing multilingual societies. Several related issues were addressed, such as minority and indigenous languages, globalisation and diversity, language rights, language ideology and language legislation.

Multilingualism and Exclusion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Multilingualism and Exclusion

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Language in South Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Language in South Africa

A discussion of the role which language, or, more properly, languages, can perform in the reconstruction and development of South Africa. The approach followed in this book is characterised by a numbers of features - its aim is to be factually based and theoretically informed.

Whose Body is It?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Whose Body is It?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Research Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 674

Research Report

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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