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Oleander
(2009)
South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical roots is very real. Of all the recordings made here since the 1930s, thousands have been lost for ever, for the powers-that-be never deemed them worthy of preservation. And if one peruses the books that exist on South African popular music, one still finds that their authors have on occasion jumped to conclusions that were not as foregone as they had assumed. Yet the fault lies not with them, rather in the fact that there has been precious little documentation in South Africa of who played what, or who recorded what, with whom, and when. This is true of all music-making in this country, though it is most striking in the musics of the black communities. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music is an invaluable publication because it offers a first-hand account of the South African music scene of the past decades from the pen of a man, Max Thamagana Mojapelo, who was situated in the very thick of things, thanks to his job as a deejay at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This book - astonishing for the breadth of its coverage - is based on his diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, and we find in it not only the well-known names of recent South African music but a countless host of others whose contribution must be recorded if we and future generations are to gain an accurate picture of South African music history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The Trek and Other Stories
(2009)
Much has been said over the last decade about the forcible eviction of the white farmers in Zimbabwe, less about the plight of the farm-workers, while the voice of the new settlers, and militia manipulated for a cause, has remained virtually unheard. This short but powerful anthology, The Trek and Other Stories, provides sensitive and illuminating, wry and comic perspectives on those people who occupied the land believing their future was golden, only for it to crumble in front of their faces.
When George J. George mistook his white Ford Escort for the moon, he knew his time was up.' When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, 'his pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato.' When he backs his uninsured white Ford Escort into a brand new Mercedes Benz, the out-of-court settlement sees him giving up his house to the complainant, Beauticious Nyamayakanuna, and becoming her domestic servant. Through the prism of this engaging post-colonial role reversal, and spiced with George's lessons on Shakespeare, John Eppel draws down the curtain on one particular white man in Africa. But before it's time to go, George will delight us with the antics of his literature classes; his various arrests - all timed to coincide with the police chief's need for help with essays on Hamlet and A Grain of Wheat; his keen eye for flora and fauna; and the long trek back through the hundred years of his family's Zimbabwean past, as he returns an abandoned child to her home. Eppel has satirized the racial politics of southern Africa in many of his previous novels. In Absent: The English Teacher he turns his gaze inwards for a generous and richly rewarding parody of the land of his birth.
Dr. Marshall Murphree is a prominent scholar in the elds of common property theory, rural development, and natural resource management. After graduating from the London School of Economics with a doctorate in social anthropology, he returned home to Zimbabwe to work as a missionary before joining the University of Zimbabwe, where he became director, and subsequently Professor Emeritus, of the Centre for Applied Social Sciences. Beyond Proprietorship presents a range of contributions to the May 2007 conference held to honour Murphreeís work, and it conveys his central concerns of equality and fairness. The focus is on marginalised people living in poor and remote regions of Zimbabwe, but also includes important discussions about the policy implications of regional tenure regimes, and the place of local resource management in global conservation politics. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent history and experience of remote area development, semi-arid agriculture, conservation, and wildlife utilisation in southern Africa.
This is the first book on German-African economic relations published in Russia in the last 25 years. It covers a whole spectrum of Germany's bi-lateral and multilateral relations with the countries of Africa, including commercial ties, money transfers, direct and portfolio investment, movement of labor resources, etc. Special attention is given to the legal framework and political context of German-African cooperation. Germany's role in implementing EU joint policy in Africa is analyzed in detail for the first time in the Russian economic literature. The book will be of interest to scholars, university students as well as business people, interested in the contemporary economic, political and social development of Africa.
Soweto during the 1970s was riven with violence and brutality, the brunt of which was borne by the young people of that period, who took the lead in the struggle against apartheid oppression. Himself a product of the era, Sol Rachilo turned both to science and to art as he strove to depict the atmosphere and the emotions of the people of those tumultuous times. Not relying solely on his own deeply engraved memories, he spent 18 months researching the events which swirled around the Morris Isaacson High School, a magnet for the activists and intellectuals of the time. The book especially highlights the happenings of 1976 and 1977, two years of strife in this politically charged township which was the home of all the founding fathers of what Sol calls, 'our cherished freedom' - Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Nthato Motlana, Desmond Tutu, Mothopeng and Sobukwe.
This September Sun
(2009)
This September Sun won the Best First Book prize at the 2010 Zimbabwe Book Publishers' Association Awards. The book is a chronicle of the lives of two women, the romantic Evelyn and her granddaughter Ellie. Growing up in post-Independence Zimbabwe, Ellie yearns for a life beyond the confines of small town Bulawayo, a wish that eventually comes true when she moves to the United Kingdom. However, life there is not all she dreamed it to be, but it is the murder of her grandmother that eventually brings her back home and forces her to face some hard home truths through the unravelling of long-concealed family secrets.
Silent Cry: Echoes of Young Zimbabwe Voices is a book of twenty-eight stories and fourteen poems, written by thirty-three young people from Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo. The pieces cover many issues, including family, gender, relationships, race, alienation, disability, HIV/AIDS, border jumping and the struggle to survive in Zimbabwe.
Hester se Brood
(2009)
Hester se Brood, in Afrikaans, is set in a small town in the Little Karoo, where Hester van der Walt bakes bread in a woodfired oven for the local market in MacGregor. The book is inhabited by the spirit of the poets C. Louis Leipoldt and Martin Versfeld, as Hester van der Walt has the same deep rooted, intuitive connection between food and soul, especially food that is prepared with traditional ingredients and methods. Along with generous portions of soul food comes a down to earth delicious recipes that show you how to bake classic European breads, like ciabatta, focaccia, kitke and baguettes as well as good old-fashioned sourdough breads. Van der Walt's fine sense of humour, and her valuing of the magic interplay between fire and wood, grain and salt, water and yeast and time - the basics elements necessary for baking real bread, makes this book as irresistible as the savour of freshly baked bread, as it comes out of the oven.
Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a 'more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a tolerant and continuing process of questioning and re-examination.' Becoming Zimbabwe tracks the idea of national belonging and citizenship and explores the nature of state rule, the changing contours of the political economy, and the regional and international dimensions of the country's history. In their Introduction, Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo enlarge on these themes, and Gerald Mazarire's opening chapter sets the pre-colonial background. Sabelo Ndlovu tracks the history up to WW11, and Alois Mlambo reviews developments in the settler economy and the emergence of nationalism leading to UDI in 1965. The politics and economics of the UDI period, and the subsequent war of liberation, are covered by Joesph Mtisi, Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Teresa Barnes. After independence in 1980, Zimbabwe enjoyed a period of buoyancy and hope. James Muzondidya's chapter details the transition 'from buoyancy to crisis', and Brian Raftopoulos concludes the book with an analysis of the decade-long crisis and the global political agreement which followed.
THE TERM WEB 2.0, COINED FOR A VARIETY OF RECENT WEB APPLICATIONS, RESOUNDS THROUGHOUT THE LAND AND FIRES ONLINE MARKETERS’ IMAGINATION IN MANY INDUSTRIES. WE EXAMINE EMPIRICALLY HOW FAR THOSE APPLICATIONS ARE USED BY RETAIL BANKING CUSTOMERS AND WHICH ROLE THEY PLAY IN THE RETAIL CUSTOMERS’ PURCHASE PROCESS.
Do we need a bad bank?
(2009)
THE CURRENT FINANCIAL CRISIS CALLS FOR A THOROUGH ANALYSIS OF BANKING SYSTEM STABILITY. WE ANALYZE GERMAN BANKS FROM A LIQUIDITY PERSPECTIVE TO ANSWER HOW FRAGILE THE GERMAN BANKING SYSTEM IS AND HOW WELL IT CAN COPE WITH SUDDEN ILLIQUIDITY SHOCKS. RESULTS SHOW THAT ALTHOUGH BANKS CREATE LIQUIDITY FOR THE GERMAN ECONOMY AND THEREBY EXPOSE THEMSELVES TO ILLIQUIDITY RISK, THE AGGREGATE BALANCE SHEET STRUCTURES ARE SAFE AND STABLE.
Interview with Markus Habbel, Principal McKinsey & Company. IN THE ACTUAL CRISIS, ENTERPRISES FACE DWINDLING FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND
THE BOTTOM FALLS OUT OF A LOT OF BUSINESS. CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICERS (CFOs) ARE IN THE EYE OF THE STORM. HOW DOES THEIR ROLE CHANGE?
CURRENTLY THE REALIZATION OF SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA) IMPLEMENTATION IN THE GERMAN BANKING INDUSTRY VARIES, WHEREAS SOME ARE IN THE ADOPTION PHASE AND SOME ARE ALREADY IN THE SOA OPERATION PHASE. THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS CONCERNING THE SOA READINESS AND THE SOA MATURITY OF GERMAN BANKS AS WELL AS THE ROLE OF SOA IN THE CONTEXT OF M&A SCENARIOS.
Percepção como interpretação
(2009)
Este artigo enfoca a apropriação que Horkheimer e Adorno fazem da doutrina kantiana do esquematismo no sentido de apontar para o procedimento – característico da indústria cultural – de usurpar de seus consumidores a capacidade de “esquematizar” (referir intuições a conceitos) por si próprios. Considerando-se que os autores não dão outras indicações sobre como se dá esse processo em relação aos meios de massa, o texto procura explicar como a própria percepção em geral é atingida pela “usurpação do esquematismo” a partir de colocações do capítulo da Dialética do esclarecimento sobre o antisemitismo. Essas colocações são complementadas – e também comparadas – com as de Hans Lenk no seu livro O pensamento e o seu conteúdo.
L’école de Frankfort abandonne progressivement les thèses de la philosophie de l’Histoire, dont l’acceptation fournissait une espèce de fondement pour la théorie critique, dans la mesure où l’on pouvait croire aux contenus émancipateurs de la raison inclus au sein même des idées de la société bourgeoise. Nous essayerons de montrer cequi est oublié dans les thèses de la philosophie de l’Histoire à partir de la dialectique du maître et de l’esclave de Hegel, et donc, pourquoi de telles thèses se sont montrées insuffisantes. Enfin, nous chercherons à démontrer que la figure théorique opposée aux thèses de la philosophie de l’Histoire se retrouve dans Über den Begriff der Geschichte de Benjamin. De plus, la récupération d’un tel fondement oublié dans les thèses de la philosophie de l’Histoire détermine, vraisemblablement, la considération morale de la théorie critique habermasienne.
O curioso realista
(2009)
Neste ensaio, Theodor Adorno combina memórias pessoais à análise da obra de Siegfried Kracauer, acentuando suas particularidades, como o traço anti-sistemático, a aversão ao idealismo, à especialização e aos métodos convencionais de análise, com forte lastro na própria experiência, o que possibilitou ao autor de O ornamento da massa descobrir novos objetos com uma rara liberdade, notavelmente antiideológica.
Procura-se destacar aqui, a partir da relação de mútua dependência entre o concreto e o especulativo em Theodor Adorno, algumas características próprias de sua exposição filosófica. A recusa de definições, a busca de constelações, a construção de "modelos críticos" tornam-se mais inteligíveis quando examinadas à luz da relação entre os conceitos e o não-conceitual. Pretende-se assim esclarecer melhor a relação entre verdade e história no pensamento de Adorno.
While liberal, redistributive views seek to correct and compensate for past injustices, by resorting to compensatory, procedural arguments for corrective justice, the recognition-based, communitarian arguments tend to promote by means of social movements and struggles for recognition a society free from prejudice and disrespect. In developing democratic societies such as Brazil, Axel Honneth’s contribution to the ongoing debates on Affirmative Action has been evoked, confirming that the dialectics of recognition does not merely seek a theoretical solution to the structural and economic inequalities that constitute some of their worst social pathologies, but allows for practices of self-respect and subjectivation that defy all technologies of social control, as pointed out in Foucault’s critique of power. The phenomenological deficit of critical theory consists thus in recasting the critique of power with a view to unveiling lifeworldly practices that resist systemic domination.
O texto tenta, num primeiro passo, mostrar que a textura intrínseca da justiça não consiste em bens distribuíveis, mas em relações sociais comumente aceitas que são constituídas por práticas perpassadas de conteúdo moral. Nessas práticas podem ser encontradas aquelas que definem o que significa tratar uma outra pessoa de forma razoável ou justa. Se este ponto de partida é convincente, então algumas consequências metodológicas sobre o conceito de justiça tem que ser tiradas e que são apresentados na segunda etapa: ao invés de construir um procedimento normativo que nos permite deduzir o conteúdo de justiça, temos de começar pela reconstrução das práticas sociais que nos informam sobre o respeito à justiça. O resultado será, tal como indicado em uma terceira etapa, a pluralização do nosso conceito de justiça, que inclui tanto princípios relevantes da justiça como há formas de relações sociais geralmente aceitas e apreciadas.
The purpose of this study consists of the identification of implantologic and prosthetic methods and techniques used in substance loss rehabilitation, associated with identifying the specific biomaterials in perfect accordance with each case particularities, without leaving aside the bone-tissue deficiency etiology. A representative number of clinical cases were selected, cases which are relevant for the chosen theme. The possibility of reconstructing the natural parameters of the edentulous alveolar ridge areas is various, starting with augmentation materials of the autogenous and heterograft type biomaterials(Bio-Oss, Grafton, Cerasorb si MBCP) including the mixing of these two types of biomaterials, and going to epitheses, which are the best choise for complex substance loss.
The essay focuses on the impact of Marcuse’s Eros and Civilization in Germany in 1968. First, the essay discusses how Freud’s theory was used in the late twenties at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Then, it focuses on how certain of Adorno and Horkheimer’s ideas were developed in Eros and Civilization. Finally, it shows how Marcuse’s work became relevant for the intellectual development of the student movement in Germany.
Rezension zu Sebastian Böhmer: Fingierte Authentizität. Literarische Welt- und Selbstdarstellung im Werk des Fürsten Pückler-Muskau am Beispiel seines "Südöstlichen Bildersaals". Hildesheim: Olms, 2007 ; Ulf Jacob: "Ich möchte manchmal ganz sehnlich, ich wäre todt." Andeutungen über das Melancholische in Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskaus Persönlichkeit und künstlerischem Werk. In: Edition Branitz, 1999. Bd. 4, S. 110-128 ; Ulf Jacob: Pückler-Diskurs im Werden. Neue Veröffentlichungen über Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau. In: kunsttexte.de 4/2007-1.