EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CHANGE AND CHRONIC DISEASE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA :SOCIAL AND …

Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the increasing incidence of so-called ‘non-communicable’ and chronic conditions. Historians, social anthropologists, public health experts and social epidemiologists present important ins…

COVID-19, THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND THE PANDEMIC’S DEVELOPMENT IMPACT

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the unique implications of the pandemic in the Global South. With international contributors from a variety of disciplines, it investigates the pandemic’s effects on development, medicine, gender (in)equality and human rights among other issues. The book’s assessment offers a discourse on the ways in which the…

KNOWING WOMEN :SAME-SEX INTIMACY, GENDER, AND IDENTITY IN POSTCOLONIAL GHANA

Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language of …

ARCHITECTURE AND DEVELOPMENT :ISRAELI CONSTRUCTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND …

comPosing these notes during the coviD- 19 pandemic deepens my appreciation of the intellectual community that sustains prolonged efforts such as writing a book—and renders them worthwhile. From its beginning as a seminar paper, Architecture and Development has owed its formation at every step to an always converging and diverging circle of friends and family, mentors and colle…

KATHLEEN COLLINS :THE BLACK ESSAI FILM

A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins’s films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world film traditions, and it highlights her contribution to each of these canons.

ARCHITECTURE AS A WAY OF SEEING AND LEARNING :THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT AS AN ADD…

At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and development. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask.…

ELECTRICITY ACCESS, AECARBONIZATION, AND INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLES

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9783658382155

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xii; 280 pg; ill.

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333.791 ELE e

CONVIVIALITY AT THE CROSSROADS

Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a p…

BRITAIN, FRANCE AND THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA

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9781911307730

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254 PG.

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960.3 BRI b

AFRICA'S DIGITAL FUTURE :FROM THEORY TO ACTION

The main thrust of this book is to examine whether Africa is in a position to benefit from the digital age, given the continent’s many development challenges and slow adoption of digital technologies. While there is substantial literature on the digital economy and the quickening pace of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), comparatively little research has been conducted on what the digit…

RE-CONFIGURATIONS :CONTEXTUALISING TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES AND LASTING CRISE…

This edited volume is an open access title and assembles both the historical consciousness and transformation of the MENA region in various disciplinary and topical facets. At the same time, it aims to go beyond the MENA region, contributing to critical debates on area studies while pointing out transregional and cultural references in a broad and comparative manner.

USING EVIDENCE IN POLICY AND PRACTICE :LESSONS FROM AFRICA

This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why. Case studies are drawn from five countries and the ECOWAS (west …

PHILOSOPHY OF RACE :AN INTRODUCTION

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonia…

Epidemics and the health of African nations

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9780639995601

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441 hlm

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614.4096 ZAM e