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It is important to question some recurrent commonplaces about the (post)colonial order and the preservation of the environment if one wants to reconcile ecocriticism and postcolonial theories. For instance, were pre-colonial societies devoid of ecological awareness? Is the environmental commitment of the developed world a kind of repentance for the damages that its material comfort has caused to the environment? Are the underprivileged people of the third world so concerned with their daily survival that they become unable to advocate for the protection of the environment? Can we conclude, given the conflicting views of the industrialized countries and their post-colonial counterparts on ecology, that issues of human development and those of the conservation of the environment are incompatible? These are some of the questions that the essays in Aspects ?cocritiques de l?imaginaire africain attempt to answer, with reference to African literature.
Armour Sucré
(2013)
Nerisha Yanee Dewoo writes in this book of poetry, her love for her people, love in its entire glory, Mauritian love...
Für viele Betriebe gewinnt die Sicherung der Arbeitsfähigkeit ihrer Beschäftigten aufgrund des demografischen Wandels an Bedeutung. Hierzu zählt die Regelung und Steuerung der Arbeitsbelastung ebenso wie die Aufrechterhaltung der Gesundheit aller Beschäftigten. Die hessischen Betriebe, so zeigen die hier vorgestellten Ergebnisse, nutzen die Instrumente zur Sicherung der Arbeitsfähigkeit bislang jedoch nicht in größerem Maße als in der Vergangenheit. So wurde das flexible Instrument der Arbeitszeitkonten sogar seltener genutzt als im Vorjahr, zudem ermöglichen die Betriebe es ihren Beschäftigten in der Regel nicht, die angesparten Zeitguthaben über einen längeren Zeitraum zu kompensieren. Noch seltener finden sich Arrangements zu langfristigen Arbeitsfreistellungen, die die Zeitautonomie der Beschäftigten vergrößern würden. Zudem gibt es in der Mehrheit der hessischen Betriebe keinerlei Angebote und Aktivitäten zum Gesundheitsschutz. Eine gewisse Verbreitung haben zumindest Krankenstandanalysen und Mitarbeiterbefragungen zum Thema; finanzielle Unterstützung und aktive Netzwerkarbeit zur betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung ist dagegen überaus selten. Bei der vereinbarten durchschnittlichen Wochenarbeitszeit sowie der Inanspruchnahme von Überstunden ist ebenfalls nur wenig Veränderung zu beobachten: Die Arbeitszeit lag leicht über den Vorjahreswerten, Überstunden wurden in ähnlich vielen Betrieben eingesetzt wie in der Vergangenheit; ein Rückgang der Arbeitsbelastung ist demnach nicht zu verzeichnen. Allerdings ist bei den Überstunden trotzdem eine Zunahme der Flexibilitätspotenziale zu beobachten, denn die Betriebe setzen bei der Kompensation der Überstunden häufiger auf eine flexible Mischung von Entgeltzahlung und Freizeitausgleich. Auch zeigt die Untersuchung, dass die Betriebe durchaus zum Handeln fähig sind, wenn dies die Umstände erfordern, denn in den Betrieben, die mit rückgehenden Beschäftigtenzahlen oder Personalproblemen rechnen, finden sich deutlich häufiger Maßnahmen zum Gesundheitsschutz als im Durchschnitt aller hessischen Betriebe. Dies lässt den Schluss zu, dass für die Mehrheit der Betriebe der derzeitige Handlungsdruck zu gering ist, um aktiv einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der Arbeitsfähigkeit ihrer Beschäftigten zu leisten.
The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in middle and low income countries is arguably one of the most meaningful outcomes recorded in the fight against HIV and AIDS. A record number of some 6.2 million people living with HIV and AIDS are reported to be benefiting from the treatment, which is reported to have risen by 19 per cent between 2010 and 2011 and as a result of this, the region has also enjoyed a significant decline in AIDS mortality. This volume is the outcome of the 'call for abstracts' put out by OSSREA in 2011 for senior researchers, social scientists and practitioners to write scientific articles on issues surrounding ARVs. The volume contains eight chapters organized into four sections: ART and quality of life; Adherence to ART; Traditional medicine and ART; and Sexual behaviour of ART attendants. The chapters are contributed by Academics and researchers from three different African countries: four from Ethiopia, two from Uganda and two from Zimbabwe.
A richly illustrated guide to the dolmen culture of Prehistoric Sicily.
Scattered around the world in woods and on mountains dolmens have posed a mystery for hundreds of years. The interpretations of these mysteries has been extremely imaginative over the centuries.
But in Sicily it has only been in recent years that the presence of numerous megaliths habe been revealed.
This manual provides a comprehensive guide to the dolmens of Sicily and the artefacts as well as historical and cultural associations of these prehistoric sites.
This book aims at educating parents generally but divorcing or divorced ones specifically. The instruction is that the future and interest of the children, whatever the cause of their separation (or calculations for the non-divorcing others), should always be the prime mover for whatever arrangement (or decision) they make. That the world would be a better place if people generally look at the larger picture of things; larger picture people usually being better suited to give children, without definitional distinctions/exclusions, a better future than what they themselves have, irrespective of the societies they live in. The book's concern for the future of children also draws from the fact that social work departments, with enormous powers over the making or ruining of children's future, are often staffed by persons with contrary ideals to those these departments stand for. Africa and Canada are specifically examined but its messages apply across the globe; lessons dished out from both perspectives of a parent and a child who has been through it and seen it all and would not want other children/parents to go through similar experiences simply because of funny definitions of family or of child, classifications often exclusively geared toward making readily available resources for educating children unavailable to some children. There also is much apprehension about some parents' blatant use of children for accomplishing their own selfish agendas to the total disregard of the future of said children who, paradoxically, do not even feature in their new un-African and un-Canadian definition of family.
The author is a Don at the School of Law, University of Nairobi Kenya and a development consultant with various NGOs and other international bodies in Eastern Africa region and Italy. He is a researcher and writer of articles and texts on matters concerning law and culture. Dr. Onyango is an expert in modern legal science with wide knowledge of law ranging from comparative legal system, international public law, ethics, philosophy, theology, sociology, mass media and social realities today. He is currently teaching Social Foundations of Law, Customary Law, International Public Law and International Relations at the University of Nairobi and he is a part-time lecturer at St. Paul's University. Among his publication are Cultural Gap and Economic Crisis in Africa and, Dholuo Grammar for Beginners.
This book deals with love, marriage/family, and witchcraft issues but its central question remains that of whether love without understanding is love. Tackling love from much broader and interdisciplinary angles than just the love-making that most love stories usually focus on, it advances the duo of love and understanding as the foundation of any successful marriage/family. Although Momany is blessed with often easily finding this rare duo, the tensions of belonging in Cameroon have been constant and persistent challenges. The book uniquely raises and brings new and ground-breaking perspectives on its subject-matters, obviously leaving many social scientists with much to do further research on.
An important feature of Ghanaian tertiary education is the foundational African Studies Programme which was initiated in the early 1960s. Unfortunately hardly any readers exist which bring together a body of knowledge on the themes, issues and debates which inform and animate research and teaching in African Studies particularly on the African continent. This becomes even more important when we consider the need for knowledge on Africa that is not Eurocentric or sensationalised, but driven from internal understandings of life and prospects in Africa. Dominant representations and perceptions of Africa usually depict a continent in crisis. Rather than buying into external representations of Africa, with its 'lacks' and aspirations for Western modernities, we insist that African scholars in particular should be in the forefront of promoting understanding of the pluri-lingual, overlapping, and dense reality of life and developments on the continent, to produce relevant and usable knowledge. Continuing and renewed interest in Africa's resources, including the land mass, economy, minerals, visual arts and performance cultures, as well as bio-medical knowledge and products, by old and new geopolitical players, obliges African scholars to transcend disciplinary boundaries and to work with each other to advance knowledge and uses of those resources in the interests of Africa's people.
The popularity of the first two editions of this book necessitated a third revised and updated version to record the many challenges in Africa since the first edition appeared in 1998. Africa is a vast and fascinating continent whose population has exceeded the one billion mark. Africa A-Z attempts to provide, in a concise manner, the facts for an elementary understanding of the continent and its complex problems. The book falls into two main sections; the five chapters on the first main section focus on the continent as a whole, dealing with its physical and human diversity, its eventful history and Africans' struggle for economic survival. The second main section contains profiles of 58 independent countries, ranging from Algeria to Zimbabwe. Presentation of the profiles is uniform, in that the same themes are covered in each profile. The data panels with the profiles contain data not provided in the text. The maps, appearing throughout the text were produced by AISA's cartography department.
A Troubadour's Thread
(2013)
This volume powerfully conveys the pilgrimage of a singular spirit through adversity, equanimity, immanence and eventually, transcendence. It grapples with a range of emotions, topics and sensations. Christopher Okigbo achieved similar results but in an entirely different manner. Okigbo's vision is epical in its dimensions while Osha's work is infused with a sustained lyricism, mutedness or even more appropriately, quietude. Osha's poetry unveils a multi-layered journey from artistic infancy to complete aesthetic maturity. Most of this journey dwells upon the poet's inner states in which vast geographical vistas are revealed.
This book is a scriptural sculpture of how the physical dimensions of the earth - built and natural - and antecedents of history structure knowledges and the physical containers - human and non-human - that embody those knowledges. The book deals with universalisms grounded on African experiences and perspectives. A key theme is how (in)security relates to knowledge creation by drawing a parallel between the proliferation of violent conflict in Africa and the marginal position that the continent occupies in the modern formation of knowledge. Also explored is the concept of creativity in relation to art and politics, as experienced by the black African elite. Bottlenecks to African creativity and the role of space and history in the production and reproduction of knowledge and ways of knowing are critically reviewed. The author makes a case for the existence of irreducible forms of knowledge existing in distinct laboratories and traces how particular biological and environment features interact with human cognition to form what passes for knowledge. He interrogates the variety of environment cognition in the light of an increasing homogenization of human cognition globally with a particular accent on climate change. This is a bold and legitimate voice on an important conversation.
This book presents a detailed and practical explanation of the law of Civil Procedure in Kenya. It discusses the principles of Civil procedure Law in a practical setting. The intricate points of law have been illustrated by examples, and in the introduction the subject has been dealt with by topics rather than in the strict order of sections in the Act and Rules. This has been done to avoid cross-referencing to enable users to adequately grasp the doctrinal aspects of the subject.
Neu-Isenburg wurde 1699 von Hugenotten gegründet, die nach der Widerrufung des Toleranzedikts von Nantes 1685 zunäcst in die evangelischen Kantone der Schweiz und bald danach in die relativ rückständigen Territorien des Alten Reiches emigriert waren – aus religiösen und wirtschaftlichen Motiven. In der reichsunmittelbaren Grafschaft Ysenburg und BüdingenOffenbach nahm der ebenfalls reformierte Graf Johann Philipp gern die technisch innovativen weltläufigen Franzosen auf und sicherte ihnen im Gründungsprivileg des Dorfes weitgehende wirtschaftliche und politische Freiheitsrechte zu. Dank des Modernisierungspotentials der Bewohner und der zugestandenen Freiheiten entwickelte sich das geplante Bauerndorf am südlichen Rand Frankfurts trotz Fluktuation und Armut schnell zu einem regionalen Zentrum der mechanischen Strumpfwirkerei. Es wurde damit auch Anziehungspunkt deutscher Zuzügler und Händler - Lutheraner, Katholiken und Juden. Seine Wirtschaft atmete im Rhythmus der beiden jährlichen Frankfurter Messen. ...
1914 stifteten Frankfurter Bürgerinnen und Bürger ihrer Stadt eine Universität, die neue Wege in Forschung und Lehre ging. Der liberale Geist einer einstmals freien Reichs- und Handelsstadt sowie des ersten deutschen demokratischen Aufbruchs beflügelte die Universitäts-Gründer Neues zu wagen; sei es mit dem Aufbau moderner Fakultäten wie der Sozial- und Naturwissenschaften oder sei es mit anderen Formen in der Hochschul - organisation oder der Didaktik. International geachtete Geistesgrößen wie Franz Oppenheimer, Theodor. W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Friedrich Dessauer, Ludwig Edinger oder Ludwig Erhard stehen für diese Errungenschaften, die der Goethe-Universität binnen kürzester Zeit weltweit zu Ansehen verhalfen: 19 Nobelpreisträger haben hier seit der Gründung der Universität studiert oder gearbeitet.
100 Jahre Ernest Jouhy : dialektische Vernunft als zweifelnde Ermutigung : zum Werk von Ernest Jouhy
(2013)
Out of the first series of public lectures titled (Re) membering Kenya organised by the Volume editors together with Twaweza Communications and supported by the Goethe Institut Kenya, The Ford Foundation and the Institute for International Education, and whose key outcome was the publication of Remembering Kenya Vol.1 (2010) grew a second round of lecture series. The second series took cognisance of the fact that the problems that bedevil Kenya as a nation go far beyond questions of culture and identity that Volume 1 dealt with. Thus, the second presentations revolved mainly around issues of economics, governance and power. The awareness of the role and/or lack of equity and social justice in causing Kenya?s persistent problems informed all these presentations. Issues of how to bring marginalised groups into the mainstream were discussed. This Volume, in part, arises from the second presentations. The authors of chapters attempt to provide answers to the question: what entails (re)membering in post-conflict Kenya? From their work, it is clear that there is a lot to (re)member in Kenya, and many ways in which to reconfigure project Kenya. (Re)membering is re-thinking and re organising our ways of doing things. It entails a juggling of priorities; between peace and reconciliation, peace and justice, and seeking justice and reconciliation without undermining peace, all of which are arduous exercises. Reconciling misconceptions about places, issues and people is part of this reconstitution too. New pathways require being embraced, past mistakes (individual and collective) acknowledged and giving earnest meaning to the vow ?never again!? Yet, as observed in this Volume, Kenyans must be vigilant against individuals and groups that have often resisted change. There are also material constraints to the achievement of the various economic activities that come with reconfiguring the Kenyan nation. Worse still there exist certain cultural underpinnings that continue to have a debilitating effect on efforts to forge a sustainable peace after conflict. These aspects require deep reflection and honest work. In part, the contributors to this Volume suggest how it can be done. There is a hint in these chapters that we need to find new organizing spaces and principles on which a ?new? Kenya can move forward. Equally, debating the very meanings of social justice and reconciliation against the background of potential conflict should be a project of this endeavor. Questioning and identifying where impunity begun is key to this process. In doing so, we begin liberating ourselves from Kenyan society?s deep-rooted impunity. (Re)membering Kenya, after all, calls for a reconstruction of ?the journey to the conflict? in order to find the right balance between the right of remembrance and the duty of forgetfulness.
(De)connexions identitaires hadjeray : Les enjeux des technologies de la communication au Tchad
(2013)
The recent history of Africa is characterised by the 'revolution' in information and communication technologies (ICT), specifically in the sector of mobile telephony, which reconsiders the challenges pertaining to identity in African societies. In this book, we follow the manifestation of such dynamic forces in the Hadjeray society in Guera, Tchad, a society that has suffered a history of political violence, mobility and failures. The study shows the role of the Chadian government in the implementation of ICT and explains how government logics have amplified. Through the analysis of the changes in the economic and social spheres, occurring due to mobile telephony, we discover the identity issues that are also informed by the feeling of fear, which is part of the Chadian history of violence. However, the ways in which the Hadjeray adopt this new technology also leave them with a means to escape the logic of violence and disruption. It is mostly a dynamic force that occurs amongst the youth who, by making use of mobile networks, discover another mode of identification, between the ethnic group and the more global identity, and find through it a political voice.
Die Geschichte "Nicht zu weit" wird – abweichend von der Forschungstradition – im Nachfolgenden nicht unter dem Thema 'Liebes- und Eheverhältnisse im ausgehenden Feudalabsolutismus' begriffen, sondern als Rätseltext, der unter anderem Gestalten und Ereignisse aus den 'Lehrjahren' spiegelt und dem in den 'Wanderjahren' die Funktion zugewiesen ist, das Projekt Odoards in Mißkredit zu bringen. Überdies stelle ich – über die Analyse der Geschichte "Nicht zu weit" hinausgehend – eine neue These zu der Identität des 'Redakteurs' der 'Wanderjahre' auf. – Alle Thesen werden weitestgehend eng am Text entlang plausibilisiert, wenigstens ist das die Absicht. Insofern ist der Charakter des Vorliegenden im Kern ein philologischer. Allerdings können hier nicht alle Voraussetzungen, die ich in aus meinen diversen Studien (gedruckt und ungedruckt) – insbesondere zu den 'Lehrjahren' – einbringe, in voller Breite belegt werden.
These ist, dass Superhelden derzeit so erfolgreich sind, weil das noch näher zu beschreibende System 'Superheld', Spezialwissen über Superhelden generiert, um dieses anschließend mit weiterführendem, kulturrelevantem Wissen anzureichern. Die RezipientInnen von Superheldenproduktionen partizipieren an diesem Wissen und tradieren es, um sich gegenüber anderen als Spezialisten zu profilieren. Um dies zu belegen, wäre zweifelsohne eine quantitative Rezeptionsstudie notwendig, was diese kurze Untersuchung keinesfalls leisten kann. Deshalb bleiben die Gedanken hier tatsächlich skizzenhaft, gedacht als eine systematisierte Sammlung von Ideen, die es erlauben, eine Diskussion über Superhelden als gleichermaßen zeitlose und zeitgebundene Systeme anzuregen.