Colonial survey and native landscapes in rural South Africa, 1850-1913 : the politics of divided space in the Cape and Transvaal / / by Lindsay Frederick Braun

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910520107503321
• Autore: Braun Lindsay Frederick
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-04-28229-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 pages)
• Collana: African Social Studies Series, , 1568-1203 ; ; Volume 33
• Disciplina: 333.3096809034
• Soggetti: Black people - South Africa - Politics and government; Real property - South Africa; Land tenure - South Africa; South Africa Politics and government 1836-1909; South Africa Politics and government 1909-1948
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Introduction: The Construction of Colonial Terrritory / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Redefining Land and Location in the Eastern Cape / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- “Cut Into Little Bits”: Engineering Social Order / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Survey and Mediation in Fingoland / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- The Notional Republic / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- “Before, the Entire Land Was Ramabulana” / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- The Fall and Rise of Mphephu / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Objections and Objectives: SANAC, the Tsewu Case, and the Land Act / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Bibliography / Lindsay Frederick Braun -- Index / Lindsay Frederick Braun.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850 - 1913 , Lindsay Frederick Braun explores the technical processes and struggles surrounding the creation and maintenance of boundaries and spaces in South Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The precision of surveyors and other colonial technicians lent these enterprises an illusion of irreproachable objectivity and authority, even ; though the reality was far messier. Using a wide range of archival and printed materials from survey departments, repositories, and libraries, the author presents two distinct episodes of struggle over lands and livelihoods, one from the Eastern Cape and one from the former northern Transvaal. These cases expose the contingencies, contests, and negotiations that fundamentally shaped these changing South African landscapes.

Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency / / Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819699803321
• Autore: Fung Archon <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
• ISBN: 9781107172463; 1107172462; 9781280815874; 1280815876; 9780511275708; 0511275706; 9780511275005; 0511275005; 9780511273476; 0511273479; 9780511321696; 0511321694; 9780511510533; 0511510535; 9780511274268; 0511274262
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 352.3/8
• Soggetti: Government information - Access control - United States; Transparency (Ethics) in government - United States; Disclosure of information - Government policy - United States; Disclosure of information - Law and legislation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-273) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Governance by transparency -- The new power of information -- Transparency informs choice -- Transparency as missed opportunity -- A real-time experiment -- Transparency success and failure -- How the book is organized -- 2. An unlikely policy innovation -- An unplanned invention -- The struggle toward openness -- Why disclosure? -- 3. Designing transparency policies -- Improving on-the-job safety : one goal, many methods -- Disclosure to create incentives for change -- What targeted transparency policies have in common -- Standards, market incentives, or targeted transparency? -- 4. What makes transparency work? -- A complex chain reaction -- New information embedded in user decisions -- New information embedded in discloser decisions -- Obstacles : preferences, biases, and games -- How do transparency policies measure up? -- Crafting effective transparency policies -- 5. What makes transparency sustainable? -- Crisis drives financial disclosure improvements -- Sustainable policies -- The politics of disclosure -- Humble beginnings : prospects for sustainable transparency -- Two illustrations -- Shifting conditions drive changes in sustainability -- 6. International transparency -- How do international transparency policies work? -- Why now? -- From private committee to public mandate : international corporate financial reporting -- Improving a moribund system : international disease reporting -- The limits of international transparency : labeling genetically modified foods -- 7. Toward collaborative transparency -- Innovation at the edge -- Technology expands capacities of users, disclosers, and government -- Four emerging policies -- Challenges to collaborative transparency -- New roles for users, disclosers, and government -- Looking ahead : complementary generations of transparency -- 8. Targeted transparency in the information age -- Two possible futures -- When transparency won't work -- Crafting effective policies -- The road ahead -- Appendix : eighteen major cases -- Targeted transparency in the United States -- Targeted transparency in the international context.
• Sommario/riassunto: Governments in recent decades have employed public disclosure strategies to reduce risks, improve public and private goods and services, and reduce injustice. In the United States, these targeted transparency policies include financial securities disclosures, nutritional labels, school report cards, automobile rollover rankings, and sexual offender registries. They constitute a light-handed approach to governance that empowers citizens. However, as Full Disclosure shows these policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Based on a comparative analysis of eighteen major policies, the authors suggest that transparency policies often produce information that is incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to the consumers, investors, workers, and community residents who could benefit from them. Sometimes transparency fails because those who are threatened by it form political coalitions to limit or distort information. To be successful, transparency policies must place the needs of ordinary citizens at centre stage and produce information that informs their everyday choices.