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Poverty and Inequality: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Responses
Volume editors: Crain Soudien, Vasu Reddy and Ingrid Woolard
Publication: March 2018
ISBN (soft cover): 978-0-7969-2442-1
ISBN (pdf): 978-0-7969-2435-3
Format: 240 mm x 168 mm
Extent: 352
About the book
While the world has seen a decline in absolute poverty, it has also seen a simultaneous rise in economic inequality. This is the case in all of the major economies as well as in emerging ones, including South Africa.
Is there a South African explanation of poverty and inequality that is distinctive and different from that which would be used in other contexts and countries? What are the familiar constants that characterise the interdependence of this ubiquitous pairing? How can the discussion on poverty and inequality be taken forward? Is wealth taxation a viable instrument to reduce wealth inequality in South Africa?
In Poverty and Inequality: Diagnosis, Prognosis and Responses, the authors explore these and many other gritty questions as they analyse the complexity of poverty and inequality beyond an over-determination of these concepts by the economic or the wealth index in South Africa.
Skills for the future: New research perspectives
Volume editors: Glenda Kruss, Angelique Wildschut and Il-haam Petersen
Publication: March 2019
ISBN (soft cover): 978-0-7969-2436-0
ISBN (pdf): 978-0-7969-2573-2
Format: 240 mm x 168 mm
Extent: 184
About the book
How do actors in the educational field respond to the changing skills demands of the future? Research teams from the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP) undertook a set of experimental and innovative case studies to improve understanding of how current research intersects with a rapidly changing future. The chapters in Skills for the Future: New Research Perspectives are based on this research. The book provides fresh evidence of the changing face of work in different sectors in South Africa, how this change reflects shifting global patterns, how it has an impact on the skills required by new forms of occupation and profession, and how it affects post-school education and training institutions.
‘Skills for the Future: New Research Perspectives presents innovative research that makes a contribution to knowledge in an important and poorly understood area. The main thread that runs through the book is the movement from macro to meso and micro levels, and what this can reveal to identify targeted incentive mechanisms and interventions that may be significant for wider use in the post-school education and training sub-system.’
– Professor Stephanie Allais, director of the Centre for Researching Education and Labour (REAL), School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand
Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Edited by: Adam Haupt, Quentin Williams, H Samy Alim and Emile Jansen
Publication: May 2019
ISBN (soft cover): 978-0-7969-2445-2
Format: 248 mm x 184 mm
Extent: 545
About the book
Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa is the culmination of decades of work on hip hop culture and hip hop activism in South Africa. It explores the emergence and development of a unique style of hip hop activism in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Neva Again draws on the contributions of hip hop scholars, artists and activists. Weaving together the varied and rich voices of South Africa’s dynamic hip hop scene, it presents a powerful vision of the potential of youth art, culture, music, language and identities to shape our politics and understand our world.
Theorising Education: A primer for the educational imagination
Author: Wayne Hugo
Publication: March 2019
ISBN (soft cover): 978-0-7969-2468-1
Format: 240 mm x 168 mm
Extent: 224
About the book
Theorising Education is a step-by-step approach to learning how to theorise. The author sets out five theoretical tools for the educational imagination:
• how to break down an educational situation into separate variables and then work with how these variables can be usefully combined;
• how to think about different ethical principles and conscientiously regulate how and why we educate the way we do;
• how to actively track the process of conceptual integration that is at the heart of pedagogy;
• how to theorise levels in education; and
• how to work with change in education.
The first book of its kind, Theorising Education: A Primer for the Educational Imagination is an essential guide for education researchers, academics and postgraduate students who want to analyse curriculum and pedagogy in an active, imaginative and systematic way.
Voices of Liberation: Archie Mafeje
Author: Bongani Nyoka
Publication: March 2019
ISBN (soft cover): 978-0-7969-2564-0
Format: 210 mm x 148 mm
Extent: 288
About the book
Archie Mafeje’s scholarship can be categorised into three broad areas: a critique of epistemological and methodological issues in the social sciences; the land and agrarian question in sub-Saharan Africa; and revolutionary theory and politics including questions of development and democracy. Noted for his brilliant intellect, academic prowess, incomparable wit and unfailing commitment to the liberation of his nation and greater Africa, Mafeje was hailed as a ‘giant’, not only in the intellectual sense but as a human being.
Voices of Liberation: Archie Mafeje locates Mafeje and his work within the broader African intellectual and political environments. It explores Mafeje’s intellectual and political influences, contextualises his major writings and reflects on his lasting intellectual legacy.
As the first comprehensive engagement with the entire body of Mafeje’s scholarship, this book is a unique contribution to South Africa’s social history and biographical studies.