by Adele on Dec 2nd, 2011
Tomorrow, 3 December, is International Disability Day. To raise awareness of this important occasion, UKZN Press will be offering a 20% discount on a selection of disability-related titles throughout December. Find the full list below:
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The Language of Me by Musa Zulu:
Musa Zulu is a tireless campaigner for the disabled cause and is well-known on the motivational circuit and for his role as Director of the KwaZulu-Natal Asiphephe Road Safety Campaign.
The Language of Me is a book that does full justice to its author’s impressive diversity of talents. With its inspiring narrative and ‘personal scrapbook’ selection of sketches, poems and private reflections, it offers a frank and intimate portrait of life from a wheelchair perspective. It is above all a testament to courage and determination, from a man who recognises no limitations in his quest for life’s best and who, through his own remarkable success story, epitomises the creed that disability need not be an impediment to life in the ‘first-class’ lane.
Tilling the Hard Soil: Poetry, Prose and Art by South African Writers with Disabilities edited by Kobus Moolman:
This is a book that takes you on a journey out of the comfort zone; a journey into the lives of ordinary people living with extraordinary challenges. They are people with disabilities, who hail from a wide diversity of backgrounds and life experiences. Some of them were born disabled; some became disabled in later life. All of them share one desire: to be recognised as human beings first, and disabled people second.
In this frank, provocative, humorous and moving collection, they give voice to their difference in a variety of creative ways. Their stories, poetry and art will challenge your perceptions of disability, and make you marvel at the complex workings of our human community.
Spring Will Come (Liyoze Line Nangakithi) by William Zulu:
Liyoze Line Nangakithi (Spring Will Come) is a powerful and moving story about the life of writer and artist William Zulu. William was born during the time of the oppression of black people in South Africa, a time that caused much hardship among communities and families. He invites us to journey with him as he shows us the joy and the hardship of growing up in Emondlo, and the challenges that he faced and overcame there.
He shares with us his experiences as an art student at the famous Rorke’s Drift Art and Crafts Centre, where he learnt the skills that led to him becoming a world-renowned linocut artist, eventually invited to exhibit his work overseas.
William has lived for a long time with disability, ever since a problem that he experienced with his legs when he was a young man. This led to him being operated on in Baragwanath Hospital – an operation which went wrong, resulting in complete paralysis of the lower part of his body.
But this book about his life is not a book of mourning and hopelessness. Instead it is an invitation for us to see the power of God and the spirit of ubuntu in those that he met on his life’s journey.
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by Adele on Dec 1st, 2011
Today is World AIDS Day and to mark this important day on the international calendar, UKZN Press is offering a 20% discount on a selection of HIV/AIDS related titles throughout December. Find the full list of titles below.
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Religion and HIV and AIDS: Charting the Terrain by Beverley Haddad
This book explores the interface between HIV, AIDS and religion and makes a significant contribution to a growing body of scholarship that recognises the importance of religious engagement with the reality of HIV and AIDS. In many communities, the spiritual narrative is far more compelling than its bio-medical equivalent, making interdisciplinary collaboration crucial. The project that gave birth to this book brought together scholars from the fields of religion and theology and activists from local communities. Its content captures the collaborative character of the book and each chapter is accompanied by a practitioner response. Existing scholarly literature was analysed and interrogated in the context of local community knowledge. The task was to understand what work has been done; and to discern what remains to be done. The book has a strong African focus with local forms of Christianity and Islam featuring prominently.
Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa by Mark Hunter
In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. Love in the Time of AIDS explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text messages, oral histories, and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social inequalities that have resulted in untimely deaths. Hunter shows how first apartheid and then chronic unemployment have become entangled with ideas about femininity, masculinity, love, and sex and have created an economy of exchange that perpetuates the transmission of HIV/AIDS. This sobering ethnography challenges conventional understandings of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Towards Gender Equality: South African Schools during the HIV and AIDS Epidemic edited by Robert Morrell, Debbie Epstein, Elaine Unterhalter, Deevia Bhana, Relebohile Moletsane
Since the democratic elections in 1994, there have been concerted efforts to redress race and gender inequalities in South Africa. Learners and teachers have responded in their own ways to change and this nuanced analysis reveals their struggles to realise gender equality by living gender differently. In distinguishing short-term interventions to change behaviour from institutional approaches, which seek to transform school structures, this book offers a new framework for understanding gender-equality initiatives.
HIV/AIDS and Society in South Africa edited by Angela Ndinga-Muvumba, Robyn Pharoah
We have not yet unravelled how HIV/AIDS is changing South Africa’s social fabric, despite the fact that over 5 million South Africans are living with the virus. Do we know how HIV/AIDS may affect different sectors of society, possibly altering the course set for development? Is it possible that the way in which the epidemic is being fought – through health and human rights activism – is adjusting our expectations of justice and equality? This title is a multidisciplinary overview of the discourse on HIV/AIDS and explores the concept of human security and the global development agenda. Contributions are drawn from a diverse group of academics and activists who examine how the epidemic intersects with politics, society, culture and the economy in South Africa, addressing human rights, gender inequality, prisons, the military, the education sector, rural livelihoods and the orphan crisis.
Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa by Nicoli Nattrass
The AIDS pandemic and denialism is an international issue and South Africa is a flash point case study. Mortal Combat is a history of AIDS policy in South Africa. It exposes the strategy and tactics of AIDS denialists and focuses on the struggle for antiretrovirals to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to extend the lives of people living with AIDS.
Children of AIDS: Africa’s Orphan Crisis by Emma Guest
This new, fully updated edition of Emma Guest’s acclaimed book explores how the AIDS crisis has devastated the world’s poorest continent, and shows how families, charities and governments are responding to the next wave of the crisis – millions of orphans.
Based on extensive interviews, Guest lets people tell their own stories. The result is a moving and disturbing account of the experiences of orphans, street children, grandparents, charity and social workers and foreign donors across South Africa, Zambia and Uganda.
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