Heerings, Hans;Zeldenrust, Ineke:Elusive Saviours: Transnational Corporations and Sustainable Development
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Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 2010. Hardcover. New. In our rapidly changing world, literacy should be seen as an important evolutionary variable in every society. For the furthe… Meer...
Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 2010. Hardcover. New. In our rapidly changing world, literacy should be seen as an important evolutionary variable in every society. For the further a Society progresses, the more it needs to adjust and adapt to new demands and pressures, so that literacy is lifelong necessity for all. Literacy, in the broad sense, is the foundation for life skills, ranging from basic oral and written communication to the ability to solve Scientific and social problems. Today it involves much more than the acquisition of 3 Rs. and a limited set of traditional skills. It is linked with the changing demands of life in a given socio-cultural context. This means that local Communities should be fully involved in defining the content of literacy programmes. The local dimension of literacy is extremely important, not only for accommodating the real needs of learners, but also for taking into account the linguistic and Cultural realities of multicultural societies. For in the end, only the learners actually decide what they need to learn. Building Bridges Between Cultures Most literacy specialist have accepted this broader, more dynamic and culturally sensitive stance. It marks a long overdue acknowledgement of the Positive role that local Language and Cultures can Play in removing some of the serious Pedagogical and psychological hurdles often encountered by learners, it is the only way to ensure the relevance and authority of literacy work. Any one can insist here on the importance of multilingual education. Today Education is as much About Learning to live together as learning to know, to do and to be. Yet we cannot live together if our possibilities of expression are limited to a single linguistic frame. This is often at the root of problems encountered in multicultural societies. Of course, inequality in all its forms is a major factor. But internal Conflicts often have purely cultural causes. It is more difficult for people to forge links with each other when they cannot communicate linguistically. Yet Children Learn languages easily-much more so that the Adults who take the decisions. We need to take much greater advantage of this fact. Children are expected to store too much information in their ""hard memory""-much of it frankly useless! Giving them language skills provides them with bridges between cultures, enabling them to grow up without than debilitating Sense that other cultures are lien. It is our task to try to ensure that education at all evils and particularly basic education, promotes multilinguilism. And we must invest in such education, since to do so is to invest in peace. Contents, 1. For a Broader Approach to Education 2. Population Growth and Education 3. Private Education: The Poor`s Best Chance? 4. Will Education Go to Market? 5. Corporate Ambitions in Education 6. Promotion of Higher Education in Research 7. Wanted: A New Deal for the Universities 8. Wiring up the Ivory Towers 9. Shaking the Ivory Tower 10. Helping Your Child Learn 11. Population Growth and Jobs 12. Beyond Economics 13. All Human Rights for All 14. Human Rights-the Road to Progress and Peace 15. Speaking from a Position of Economic Strength : The Human Rights Debate and Asia 16. Safe Motherhood is a Human Rights Issue 17. The Population Challenge 18. Consuming the Future 19. A Crucial Encounter 20. The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and the Developing Countries 21. Policy Researchers and Policy Makers : Never the Twain shall meet? 22. Corruption: Where to Draw the Line? 23. Law and Social Justice 24. On the Way to Commercial Microcredits : The Changing of a Development Instrument 25. No Progress without a Secular Society 26. Development : The People Know Best 27. Social Development : The Way Forward 28. Is Copyright on the Wrong Track? Printed Pages: 136., Discovery Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 2010, New York, NY Random House: Vintage, 1983. Paperback First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. First Edition Thus; First Printing indicated. Near Fine in Wraps: just a hint of wear to the extremities; mildest rubbing; the text pages have tanned somewhat, due to aging. The Binding leans very slightly, but remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. No longer pristine, but remains very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 185pp. First published in hardback in 1970. Trade Paperback. A stunning novel in which "Mr. Wideman returns to the ghetto where he was raised and transforms it into a magical location...and establishes a mythological and symbolic link between character and landscape... Sent for you yesterday, and here you come today....It only makes sense that one of the main themes of John Edgar Wideman's Pen/Faulkner Award winning novel, Sent For You Yesterday, should find expression in a song. Any novel written with the musical lyricism and jive, stream of consciousness language Wideman employs is attempting to bridge the gap between music and literature. Wideman takes the blues out of the jazz clubs and places it squarely on the page for the readers' benefit. Sent For You Yesterday is a marvel to read, not only for its eloquent exposition of urban African American culture, but also simply for the beauty of Wideman's words. If James Joyce had been born in inner city Pittsburgh instead of Dublin, his writing would most likely have sounded much like Wideman's. Wideman shifts flawlessly from one characters' thoughts to the next, detailing the exclusion felt by the albino Brother in an all black community, to the lunacy of Samantha, a mother of over 10 children who loses her mind when one of her children burns to death. World War II clouds over this novel in the same way World War I is the ever-present unmentioned in Woolf's To The Lighthouse. Wideman draws on the modernists, but in a completely original manner. The lives he shows us are real and hard, their importance obviously apparent but unbearably tragic. Through it all, Wideman's characters persevere, suffering through life, even as they acknowledge it will only get worse. In their brave embrace of life, there is a profound sublimity. One consolation is music - it is also their heritage for people otherwise without possessions. Any discussion of the characters in Sent For You Yesterday must begin by first acknowledging that the Pittsburgh area of Homewood is the main character. Though he is wanted by the police for sleeping with a white woman, Albert Wilkes' has to return to Homewood. The place draws him back. He has traveled for seven years but only in Homewood does he feel at home. His re-arrival in Homewood frames the novel's first section, while the rest of the book focuses on Lucy Tate, the narrator's Uncle Carl, and Lucy's surrogate brother called only Brother, and their relative inability to leave Homewood at all. The gravity of the town seems to possess the work's human characters. Homewood exerts a force originating out of its inescapable history; even as its houses crumble, its people drink and drug themselves to death, and poverty comes to dominate like a despot, Lucy, Carl, and Brother stay fixed, attached to each other, but more so to the place. The only of the self-termed "Three Musketeers" who figures out a way to leave Homewood is Brother and he does so through suicide, symbolically mauled by the town's lone link to the outside world, a freight train. Wideman presents his characters not as emblems pleading for our sympathy, but in a matter of fact manner that seems to say: take them as they are or don't take them at all, either way, your opinion isn't going to mean much to them. Even as he chronicles the socioeconomic decline from one generation to the next, his characters never turn to external factors to lay blame for their misfortunes. As Carl eloquently recalls about his temporary drug addiction, he enjoyed crack and shot up because of the pleasure. It was his choice, no one else's. There was no coercion, just as it was his decision to stop. While the oppressive presence of white people hangs over all, penetrating the character's psyches as if by osmosis, Wideman doesn't succumb to angry finger pointing. Wideman suggests that the horrendous level of disrespect with which white people treat African Americans has bored into the black mind to such a degree, that the residents of Homewood have internalized and eventually accepted the idea that they are somehow lesser than. It has become so second-hand, the idea isn't even perceptible anymore. It's just a part of life, like Carl's pot belly or the shared affinity for Iron City beer. And it is the subtlety of this presentation of the ramifications of segregation and racism that makes it so effective. How can characters ask for empathy when they can't even realize they would ever deserve it? The bluesy expression "been down so long don't even know what's up," floats between the lines of Sent For You Yesterday like the lingering echo of a melancholy piano chord. Wideman justly won the Pen/Faulkner Award for Sent For You Yesterday. His innovative utilization of "authentically black" language provides the dialect and characters with a respect they never afforded themselves. Wideman takes the tuneful acoustics of street slang and transforms the speech into high art. Not since Faulkner has a specific time and place been depicted so accurately and with such heartfelt compassion. Wideman has saved a culture and past from oblivion by rendering it as adeptly as he manages in this novel. In a present when Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent are the most ubiquitous signs of black culture, Wideman reminds all Americans that African Americans have existed and will continue to do so as an incredibly cohesive community and one that we should honor with more than Senate apologies. Wideman illustrates an unshakeable integrity pulsating in a dereliction few of us have or will ever be forced to witness. Whether Homewood's characters comprehend it or not, they are resilient, and far from pity, should receive only our admiration for not bowing to life's burdens. As for Wideman, he should continue to receive praise, as an achievement such as Sent For You Yesterday, like the world it defines, must never be forgotten., Random House: Vintage, 1983., Netherlands: Intl Books, 1995. Slight cover wear. Nice, clean, tight, unmarked copy. The authors address the question of whether multinational corporations can use their economic power for the good of the environment and to stimulate sustainable development. The possibility is discussed in the light of the failure of governments to agree clear and binding environmental commitments and the increasing polarization between North and South countries. While transnationals are currently presenting themselves as the "green alternatives" in a global honour of need, there is no doubt that historically they have been a major source of economic and environmental problems both on local and international scales. The question addressed here is: is the gigantic economic power of these corporations an obstacle or a bridge to sustainable development? The authors review the UNCED process, and the day to day running of the transnationals. They examine the consequences of these companies' investment policies, and their involvement in mining, agriculture, trade, distribution and service industries. The final chapter discusses the far-reaching effects on national environmental policies of the new GATT and WTO agreements, and what the likely outcome will be if international environmental management is placed in corporate hands.. Soft Cover. Very Good., Intl Books, 1995<
