Bøger af Jacklyn Cock

Capitalism's addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. The Climate Crisis investigates ecosocialist alternatives that are emerging.

This is the first publication in the Democratic Marxism Series , which seeks to elaborate the social theorising and politics of Democratic Marxism. This edited volume introduces some contemporary approaches to Marxism and explores some of the ways in which Marxism has been used in Africa.

The chapters in this volume are written by experts in their fields and address issues of politics, power and social class; economy, ecology and labour; public policy and social practice; and South Africa beyond its borders. The third volume of the New South African Review continues the series by providing in-depth analyses of the key issues facing South Africa today.

An illuminating and unusual biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape. As well as being a social history, this is also a natural history of the river and its catchment area, where dinosaurs once roamed and cycads still grow.

For many people 'nature' means wilderness and wild animals. It is experienced indirectly through magazines and television programmes or through visiting the highly managed environments of national parks. This book compels us to re-examine our relationship with nature, to change our practices and dissolve binary divisions.

A passionate, intelligent commentary. This book is an invigorating look at the implications of difference and diversity in two contrasting but similar societies: the United States and South Africa. It addresses how differences--of gender, race, culture, biology, and sexual orientation - are variously understood and acted on in both countries.