03102oam 2200553I 450 991096078940332120240505213104.0978186914328297818691432991869143299(CKB)3710000001109273(MiAaPQ)EBC4825209(Au-PeEL)EBL4825209(CaPaEBR)ebr11363458(OCoLC)979042964(Perlego)3039737(EXLCZ)99371000000110927320170403h20172017 uy 0engurcnu|||uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNGOs and social justice in South Africa and beyond /edited by Sally Matthews1st ed.Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa :University of KwaZulu-Natal Press,2017.©20171 online resource (x, 190 pages)Thinking Africa Series9781869143282 1869143280 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Thinking NGOs, Emancipation and Social Justice -- Chapter 1 Can NGOs Play an Emancipatory Role in Contemporary Africa? -- Chapter 2 Naviga ting the Pitfalls of State Democracy -- Chapter 3 Black Liberation and the Notion of 'Social Justice' in South Africa -- Part II NGOs in Practice -- Chapter 4 'We Give Off a Lot of Heat Bu t Not a Lot of Light' -- Chapter 5 Exploring the Relationship Between Service Delivery and Advocacy -- Chapter 6 Thinking Through the Role of NGOs in South Africa -- Chapter 7 The Obscure An atomy of the NGO Sector -- Chapter 8 Infiltration an d Instigation -- Part III Conversations -- Chapter 9 NGOs -- Chapter 10 C ollaboration and Co-option -- Chapter 11 There Is No 'Outside the Law' -- Conclusion -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index.Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are regarded by many as vital role players in improving the lives of the poor and bringing about social justice. This book includes contributions from NGO workers, academics and social movement activists in order to provide varying perspectives on what possible role NGOs can rightly play in popular struggles. Consequently, the book does not have a single message about what role NGOs ought to play in struggles for social justice, but rather invites careful reflection and critical discussion on their role both in South Africa and further afield. Non-governmental organizationsSouth AfricaSocial justiceSouth AfricaNon-governmental organizationsSocial justice341.2Matthews Sally1811545Matthews Sally MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ6680BOOK9910960789403321NGOs and social justice in South Africa and beyond4363469UNINA05144nam 2200589Ia 450 991101959760332120200520144314.01-118-28087-31-280-59913-897866136289611-118-28086-5(CKB)2670000000170084(EBL)881735(OCoLC)793103985(MiAaPQ)EBC881735(PPN)169040755(EXLCZ)99267000000017008420111129d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFundamentals of geobiology /edited by Andrew H. Knoll, Don E. Canfield & Kurt O. KonhauserChichester, West Sussex ;Hoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sons20121 online resource (481 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-118-28081-4 1-4051-8752-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.FUNDAMENTALS OF GEOBIOLOGY; Contents; Contributors; 1. What is Geobiology?; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Life interacting with the Earth; 1.3 Pattern and process in geobiology; 1.4 New horizons in geobiology; References; 2. The Global Carbon Cycle: Biological Processes; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A brief primer on redox reactions; 2.3 Carbon as a substrate for biological reactions; 2.4 The evolution of photosynthesis; 2.5 The evolution of oxygenic phototrophs; 2.6 Net primary production; 2.7 What limits NPP on land and in the ocean?; 2.8 Is NPP in balance with respiration?; 2.9 Conclusions and extensionsReferences3. The Global Carbon Cycle: Geological Processes; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Organic carbon cycling; 3.3 Carbonate cycling; 3.4 Mantle degassing; 3.5 Metamorphism; 3.6 Silicate weathering; 3.7 Feedbacks; 3.8 Balancing the geological carbon cycle; 3.9 Evolution of the geological carbon cycle through Earth's history: proxies and models; 3.10 The geological C cycle through time; 3.11 Limitations and perspectives; References; 4. The Global Nitrogen Cycle; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Geological nitrogen cycle; 4.3 Components of the global nitrogen cycle; 4.4 Nitrogen redox chemistry4.5 Biological reactions of the nitrogen cycle4.6 Atmospheric nitrogen chemistry; 4.7 Summary and areas for future research; References; 5. The Global Sulfur Cycle; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The global sulfur cycle from two perspectives; 5.3 The evolution of S metabolisms; 5.4 The interaction of S with other biogeochemical cycles; 5.5 The evolution of the S cycle; 5.6 Closing remarks; Acknowledgements; References; 6. The Global Iron Cycle; 6.1 Overview; 6.2 The inorganic geochemistry of iron: redox and reservoirs; 6.3 Iron in modern biology and biogeochemical cycles; 6.4 Iron through time6.5 SummaryAcknowledgements; References; 7. The Global Oxygen Cycle; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The chemistry and biochemistry of oxygen; 7.3 The concept of redox balance; 7.4 The modern O2 cycle; 7.5 Cycling of O2 and H2 on the early Earth; 7.6 Synthesis: speculations about the timing and cause of the rise of atmospheric O2; References; 8. Bacterial Biomineralization; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Mineral nucleation and growth; 8.3 How bacteria facilitate biomineralization; 8.4 Iron oxyhydroxides; 8.5 Calcium carbonates; Acknowledgements; References; 9. Mineral-Organic-Microbe Interfacial Chemistry9.1 Introduction9.2 The mineral surface (and mineral-bio interface) and techniques for its study; 9.3 Mineral-organic-microbe interfacial processes: some key examples; Acknowledgements; References; 10. Eukaryotic Skeletal Formation; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Mineralization by unicellular organisms; 10.3 Mineralization by multicellular organisms; 10.4 A brief history of skeletons; 10.5 Summary; Acknowledgements; References; 11. Plants and Animals as Geobiological Agents; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Land plants as geobiological agents; 11.3 Animals as geobiological agents; 11.4 ConclusionsAcknowledgements2012 PROSE Award, Earth Science: Honorable Mention For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour, has emerged as an exciting and rapidly expanding field, fuelled by advances in molecular phylogeny, a new microbial ecology made possible by the molecular revolution, increasingly sophisticated new techniques for imaging and determining chemical compositions of solids on nanometer scales, the development of non-traditional stableGeobiologyBiosphereGeobiology.Biosphere.577Knoll Andrew H625544Canfield Donald E1839904Konhauser Kurt312806MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911019597603321Fundamentals of geobiology4419302UNINA