Health In Pietermaritzburg 1838 2008
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Health In Pietermaritzburg 1838 2008
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Author : Julie Dyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-11-22
Health In Pietermaritzburg 1838 2008 written by Julie Dyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-22 with categories.
This is a history of the health of the people of Pietermaritzburg, a developing city in Africa and capital of the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The book covers a period of about 170 years: from a time when a few explorers of European extraction started to settle themselves in a rural southern African valley, through the process of building and establishing a colonial town, followed by an apartheid city, and then a large multiracial and democratically governed metropolis of over 600 000 people. It shows how this process of creating and inhabiting a city changed people's health, for better or worse; and looks at the impact of the built environment, the physical environment, the social and economic environment, and the policy and legal environment on health status. The book examines the history of public health as affected by the process of urbanisation, combined with the peculiar form of social engineering that took place in South Africa, particularly during the Apartheid years.
A Menace To Our Health
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Author : Julie Dyer
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-01-20
A Menace To Our Health written by Julie Dyer and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-20 with Medical categories.
Epidemics have caused terror across the world throughout history. This book describes how South Africa has faced the challenges of 12 infectious diseases over the centuries, covering Leprosy, Syphilis, Smallpox, Plague, Typhoid, Typhus, Influenza, Cholera, Malaria, Measles, Polio and Diphtheria between the 17th and 20th centuries. Most of these diseases were brought by visitors, colonialists and migrants from outside South Africa, to an indigenous African population that was, by all accounts, previously remarkably healthy. The diseases then spread across the country, aided by the movements of European migrants and their socio-economic policies, in particular the forced migrant labour system in use on the gold, diamond and platinum mines. Urbanization increased the spread of many of these epidemics, which were then responded to by the Colonialist, Unionist and Apartheid-era governments in varying ways. The impact of these diseases is described, along with the causes, control measures and consequences, which often differed according to race. The medical, political, socio-economic and psychological impact on the population is considered, along with the racially-discriminatory interventions taken by the European administrations. These included their laying the foundations for the policies of separate living spaces and segregation leading up to Apartheid. This book analyses the 12 diseases in the context of South Africa's history, and draws conclusions about their impact on its development and the indigenous population.
Welcome To Greater Edendale
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Author : Marc Epprecht
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2016-11-01
Welcome To Greater Edendale written by Marc Epprecht and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with Political Science categories.
In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban population growth will take place in smaller cities. Failure to manage environmental and public health problems in one such aspiring city, Edendale, has fostered severe pollution, seemingly intractable poverty, and gender inequalities that directly fuel one of the worst HIV/AIDS pandemics in the world. A nuanced and timely presentation of South African responses to changing times, conditions, opportunities, and state interventions, Welcome to Greater Edendale reconstructs nearly two centuries of contestation over land, governance, human rights, identity, housing, sanitation, public health, and the meaning of development. Bringing gender and health issues to the foreground, Marc Epprecht reveals many unexpected or forgotten triumphs against environmental injustice, but also unsettling continuities between colonial, apartheid, and post-apartheid policies to spur economic growth. Sheltered from the glare of national media and often overlooked by scholars, smaller cities like Edendale attract political patronage, corruption, and violent protests, while rapid climate change promises to further strain their infrastructure, social services, and public health. A challenging, innovative, and thoughtful examination of the history and politics of South Africa, Welcome to Greater Edendale questions the common assumptions embedded in environmental policy, gender relations, democracy, and the neoliberal model of development in which so many African cities are ensnared.
Remapping Race In A Global Context
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Author : Ludovica Lorusso
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-30
Remapping Race In A Global Context written by Ludovica Lorusso and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with Social Science categories.
Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, biomedicine, and struggles for social justice around the world. In this book, biologists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers inspect critical questions around the biological reality of race and how it has been understood in different national and regional contexts. The essays also examine debates on the usefulness of race in medical and epidemiological studies. With a focus on the fields of human genomics and biomedicine, this book presents critical findings on whether and how race might be ethically and epistemologically justified in our age of personalized medicine, mass surveillance, and biased algorithms. The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in a broad range of scientific and humanistic disciplines, including biology, anthropology, geography, philosophy, cultural or community studies, critical race theory, and any field concerned with the deep racial dividing lines running across societies globally.
The African Book Publishing Record
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The African Book Publishing Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Africa categories.
Problematizing The Foreign Shop
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Author : Gastrow, Vanya
language : en
Publisher: Southern African Migration Programme
Release Date : 2018-08-03
Problematizing The Foreign Shop written by Gastrow, Vanya and has been published by Southern African Migration Programme this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-03 with Social Science categories.
Small businesses owned by international migrants and refugees are often the target of xenophobic hostility and attack in South Africa. This report examines the problematization of migrant-owned businesses in South Africa, and the regulatory efforts aimed at curtailing their economic activities. In so doing, it sheds light on the complex ways in which xenophobic fears are generated and manifested in the country’s social, legal and political orders. Efforts to curb migrant spaza shops in South Africa have included informal trade agreements at local levels, fining migrant shops, and legislation that prohibits asylum seekers from operating businesses in the country. Several of these interventions have overlooked the content of local by-laws and outed legal frameworks. The report concludes that when South African township residents attack migrant spaza shops, they are expressing their dissatisfaction with their socio-economic conditions to an apprehensive state and political leadership. In response, governance actors turn on migrant shops to demonstrate their allegiance to these residents, to appease South African spaza shopkeepers, and to tacitly blame socio-economic malaise on perceived foreign forces. Overall, these actors do not have spaza shops primarily in mind when calling for the stricter regulation of these businesses. Instead, they are concerned about the volatile support of their key political constituencies and how this backing can be undermined or generated by the symbolic gesture of regulating the foreign shop.
A Sweet Footed African James Jibraeel Alhaji
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Author : Jibraeel Alhaji
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2014-10-06
A Sweet Footed African James Jibraeel Alhaji written by Jibraeel Alhaji and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Sweet-Footed African captures the sense of being James Jibraeel Alhaji; the milestones and challenges of his life and his reconciliation with emotions, decisions and circumstances of the past, and hopes for the future. James Jibraeel Alhajis life is characterized by a diversity of personal ambitions, family commitments and economic motives, which lead him from his home in Cameroon to Cape Town, South Africa. The story situates the context of decisions that characterize the so-called quest for greener pastures, examining personal opportunities, triumphs and challenges before and beyond life as an immigrant in South Africa. The story explores what it means to move and to be mobile in Africa, the networks that fulfil and sustain mobile Africans during times of uncertainty, and the lineage to home that remains eternally active.
Mean Streets
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Author : Crush, Jonathan
language : en
Publisher: Southern African Migration Programme
Release Date : 2015-11-16
Mean Streets written by Crush, Jonathan and has been published by Southern African Migration Programme this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-16 with Social Science categories.
This book powerfully demonstrates that some of the most resourceful entrepreneurs in the South African informal economy are migrants and refugees. Yet far from being lauded, they take their life into their hands when they trade on South Africa's "mean streets". The book draws attention to what they bring to their adopted country through research into previously unexamined areas of migrant entrepreneurship. Ranging from studies of how migrants have created agglomeration economies in Jeppe and Ivory Park in Johannesburg, to guanxi networks of Chinese entrepreneurs, to competition and cooperation among Somali shop owners, to cross-border informal traders, to the informal transport operators between South Africa and Zimbabwe, the chapters in this book reveal the positive economic contributions of migrants. these include generating employment, paying rents, providing cheaper goods to poor consumers, and supporting formal sector wholesalers and retailers. As well, Mean Streets highlights the xenophobic responses to migrant and refugee entrepreneurs and the challenges they face in running a successful business on the streets.
Informal Entrepreneurship And Cross Border Trade Between Zimbabwe And South Africa
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Author : Chikanda, Abel
language : en
Publisher: Southern African Migration Programme
Release Date : 2017-02-10
Informal Entrepreneurship And Cross Border Trade Between Zimbabwe And South Africa written by Chikanda, Abel and has been published by Southern African Migration Programme this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-10 with Social Science categories.
Zimbabwe has witnessed the rapid expansion of informal cross-border trading (ICBT) with neighbouring countries over the past two decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s when the country embarked on its Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), a large number of people were forced into informal employment through worsening economic conditions and the decline in formal sector jobs.
The Emergence Of The South African Metropolis
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Author : Vivian Bickford-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-16
The Emergence Of The South African Metropolis written by Vivian Bickford-Smith and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-16 with History categories.
A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.