Full Description
This is a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary handbook, which places the social sciences and the humanities at the centre of intellectual and deliberative efforts about policy, law, public management, knowledge, health aesthetics and feminism. Presented in three volumes, the handbook is ahead of its time and sets out the terms for the post-colonial discourse on agency, freedom and justice. Its main objective is to spark a conversation among citizens on the challenges facing the country, such as poverty, inequality and unemployment. The contributors have a deep understanding of the social, economic and political aspects of post-colonial life in South Africa and the demands for fundamental change. This understanding is the source of their concern for and reflections on complex systems of agency, freedom and justice. The social sciences and the humanities stand to benefit immensely from these reflections, not as they are filtered through the lenses of theory and ideology in the abstract, but as we encounter them in lived experience.
Contents
Foreword
Preface: Agency, Freedom and Justice
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Deliberative Framework
PART 1: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 1. An Effective Covid-19 Response Requires a Caring Society
Chapter 2. Elusive Justice: An Exploration of the Influence of Colonialism and Neo-Liberalism on Environmental Injustices in South Africa
Chapter3. Environmental Health, the Poor and the Vulnerable
PART 2: PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
Chapter 4. Public Health and Human Rights: A Framework for Differently Abled Students' Services
Chapter 5. Turning Our Greatest Obstacles into Opportunities
Chapter 6. Agency, Empowerment and Disability: An Evaluation of Socio-Economic Inequalities in South Africa Post-Democracy
Chapter 7. Disability and Culture in a Democratic South Africa
PART 3: THE FAMILY, COMMUNITY ACTION AND SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE
Chapter 8. Ubuntu as the Foundation of the African Family
Chapter 9. Policy Failures and the Human, Social and Economic Development of Families Post-1994
Chapter 10. All Children Reading by 2030: Pipe Dream or Possibility?
Chapter 11. Centring African Child Development at Home and in School
Chapter 12. 'People-Driven Transformation' and Community Activism: Embracing New Beginnings for Change
PART 4: GENDER JUSTICE
Chapter 13. Black Women and the 'Menial Ditch': A Case of Rhetorical Gender Transformation
Chapter 14. Advancing Gender Equity in the Institution of Traditional Leadership: Democracy or Custom?
Chapter 15. The Role of Women in Implementing the Asset-Based Community Approach: Women Ward Councillors in Amathole and Chris Hani District Municipalities
Notes on Contributors
