Promoting mental health demands actions that improve resilience in individuals, families and communities, and ensure health enhancing policy and legislative frameworks. These actions are at the heart of human development and can assist in improving social and economic prospects for people in low-to middle income countries.
The book provides a conceptual and theoretical base for the application of mental health promotion and prevention of mental disorders in low-resource settings – offering examples of evidence-based programmes across the lifespan.
With contributions from a range of experts, including Inge Petersen, Arvin Bhana, Alan J Flisher, Leslie Swartz & Linda Richter, ‘Promoting mental health in scarce-resource contexts: Emerging evidence and practice’ is a must read text for students and practitioners, policy-makers and planners, as well as anyone with an interest in improving mental and public health in South Africa.
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The Zuma Administration: Critical Challenges, a collection of essays concerning the challenges facing the current government under Jacob Zuma, was launched last week in Cape Town.
The book is edited by Kwandiwe Kondlo and Masuphye Maserumule – both present at the launch. Their work seeks to stimulate debate and thinking, to challenge entrenched views and perceptions and to break new ground. Interpreting the dynamics since the birth of democracy in South Africa in1994, through the era of the Mbeki administration and the transition to the Zuma administration, it provides fresh perspectives on the questions of land reform, rural development, service delivery, intergovernmental relations, and poverty reduction in South Africa.
Chinese trade with and investment in Africa is big – and it’s getting bigger. Chris Alden, co-editor of The Struggle over Land in Africa: Conflicts, Politics & Change, and Riaan Meyer take a closer look at the shape these investments are taking and how they in turn will shape Africa’s future (and possibly put an end to the dollar’s reign).
The role of Chinese finance is a key driver of this trend. Through diversification of instruments and sources it is setting the pace for Chinese engagement and concurrently providing a window into its changing approach to global finance.
The conventional view of Chinese finance in Africa is that it is a lump sum concessional loan, negotiated in secret between Beijing and the host government, built around the twin pillars of a substantive Chinese investment in infrastructure in exchange for access to African resources. The idea is that it is all wrapped in a commitment to non-interference and peopled by Chinese companies, unskilled labour and supplies.
Such is the power of this image that African leaders themselves have been seduced by it. Former leaders Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Omar Bongo of Gabon and, most recently, Guinea’s Moussa Dadis Camara all believed that this was the definitive Chinese approach and pursued arrangements with Beijing on this basis. And in the main, their efforts to secure such deals have been dogged by controversy.
In light of president Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address this week, HSRC Press invites you to the launch of a collection of essays from varying perspectives that rigorously engages with the challenges facing South Africa’s government.
The Zuma Administration: Critical Challenges seeks to stimulate debate and thinking, to challenge entrenched views and perceptions and to break new ground. Interpreting the dynamics since the birth of democracy in South Africa in1994, through the era of the Mbeki administration and the transition to the Zuma administration, it provides fresh perspectives on the questions of land reform, rural development, service delivery, intergovernmental relations, and poverty reduction in South Africa.
Steering clear of biography, the book deals with the micro-mechanics of governance. It is written for policy-makers, scholars in the field of administration and governance and everyone with an interest in the political economy and public administration of South Africa.
The issues that this book deals with are high on the research agenda of the Human Sciences Research Council’s Democracy and Governance research programme and are in line with its pursuit of informing policy development in South Africa.
We hope to see you at the launch:
Event Details
Date: Friday, 12 February 2010
Time: 12:00 PM for 12:30 PM
Venue: Townhouse Conference Centre, 60 Corporation St
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UCT, in conjunction with the 1860 Legacy Foundation (commemorating 150 years of Indian history in SA), invites you to a a public lecture by Professor Goolam Vahed of Department of Historical Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on “Indentured Indian workers on the plantations of Natal and beyond: 1860-1911″.
We are living through a daunting yet fascinating period in which the global economy increasingly challenges the accepted dichotomies between home-life and work-life, between employment and unemployment, paid work and unpaid work. This calls for serious analysis of how knowledge is generated, both formally and informally, in workplaces as diverse as the factory, the field, or the street. It raises questions about what forms of learning and training are involved; how they articulate with one another and what practical and theoretical implications this has for our societies.
In this book, 34 leading scholars from 10 countries challenge established understandings of lifelong learning and work, with several arguing that ‘work’ and ‘lifelong learning’ need to be ‘turned inside out’ through a rigorous critique of underlying social relations and practices so that we understand the power relations that shape learning/work possibilities. In various ways, all of the 25 chapters that make up this volume are infused with imaginings of alternative futures which prioritise social justice and sustainability for the majority in the world.
Learning/Work will appeal to scholars and practitioners who are grappling to understand and implement learning/work critically within the demanding conditions of our times.
The Tuesday, 8 September launch discussion (12:30 – 1:30) and workshop that follows (2:00 – 3:30) will take place by video conference at the HSRC’s offices in Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban:
Cape Town:
HSRC, 12th floor Plein Park Building (opposite Parliament), 69-83 Plein Street, Cape Town
From Social Silence to Social Science presents a unique and innovative effort to examine what we know about homosexual transmission of HIV and AIDS in South Africa. It reverses the trend whereby categories of same sex sexual practice are almost always excluded from research of HIV and AIDS, as well as from care and intervention programmes.
The HSRC Press, the Development Bank of Southern Africa and the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity invite you to the Johannesburg and Durban launches of Development and Dreams: The Urban Legacy of the 2010 Football World Cup edited by edited by Udesh Pillay, Orli Bass and Richard Tomlinson.
This important and timely work casts a critical eye on the management, costs and benefits associated with the 2010 World Cup, looking at the event’s uncertain economic and employment benefits, the venue selections, and the investment in infrastructure, tourism and fan parks, among other items. The contributors then explore the less tangible hopes, dreams and aspirations associated with the 2010 World Cup and interrogate what it means to talk about an African Cup, African culture and identity. (more…)
Ike’s Books in Durban invites you to a launch and discussion of Promoting Mental Health in Scarce Resource Contexts on Wednesday the 24th of March.
