Utopia, dystopia, neo-utopia: three Generations of contemporary Artists in Angola. Atlantico: Contemporary Art in Angola and its diaspora today
- Authors: Siegert, Nadine
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146332 , vital:38516 , ISBN 9789892088105
- Description: Book abstract. The book Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Angola and its Diaspora marks the start of publisher Hangar Books, specialising in publications within the context of contemporary arts, with particular incidence on southern epistemology.
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- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: Siegert, Nadine
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146332 , vital:38516 , ISBN 9789892088105
- Description: Book abstract. The book Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Angola and its Diaspora marks the start of publisher Hangar Books, specialising in publications within the context of contemporary arts, with particular incidence on southern epistemology.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Aesthetic autonomy at the border:
- Authors: Tello, Verónica
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146244 , vital:38508 , ISBN 9781786606860
- Description: Book abstract. Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the ‘apolitical age’, what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and reconstructionist approaches – the tendency of which is to show that a particular site or practice is necropolitical by bringing its genealogy into evidence – this collection of essays by artist-philosophers and theorist curators articulates the pre-perceptual working of necropolitics through a focus on the senses, assignments of energy, attitudes, cognitive processes, and discursive frameworks.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Tello, Verónica
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146244 , vital:38508 , ISBN 9781786606860
- Description: Book abstract. Every politics is an aesthetic. If necropolitics is the (accelerated) politics of what is usually referred to as the ‘apolitical age’, what are its manoeuvres, temporalities, intensities, textures, and tipping points? Bypassing revelatory and reconstructionist approaches – the tendency of which is to show that a particular site or practice is necropolitical by bringing its genealogy into evidence – this collection of essays by artist-philosophers and theorist curators articulates the pre-perceptual working of necropolitics through a focus on the senses, assignments of energy, attitudes, cognitive processes, and discursive frameworks.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Alternatives to Development in Africa:
- Authors: Matthews, Sally
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142202 , vital:38058 , ISBN 9783319675091 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67510-7_7
- Description: Africa’s place in the world has been closely linked to the idea of development. Building on post-development theory’s critique of development, Matthews’ chapter asks whether and how we can move beyond development in Africa. She argues that contrary to the wishes of some post-development theorists, we cannot retrieve, discover, or create something that is purely not-development, entirely non-Western, and fully outside of coloniality. However, this does not mean that we ought to acquiesce in the face of the powerful discourses that have come to dominate the way in which we talk about Africa. The chapter tentatively explores some possible ways in which development can be both resisted and reappropriated in creative ways.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Matthews, Sally
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142202 , vital:38058 , ISBN 9783319675091 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67510-7_7
- Description: Africa’s place in the world has been closely linked to the idea of development. Building on post-development theory’s critique of development, Matthews’ chapter asks whether and how we can move beyond development in Africa. She argues that contrary to the wishes of some post-development theorists, we cannot retrieve, discover, or create something that is purely not-development, entirely non-Western, and fully outside of coloniality. However, this does not mean that we ought to acquiesce in the face of the powerful discourses that have come to dominate the way in which we talk about Africa. The chapter tentatively explores some possible ways in which development can be both resisted and reappropriated in creative ways.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Hepatitis C and HIV Coinfection in Developing Countries:
- Authors: Tastan Bishop, Özlem
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148228 , vital:38721 , ISBN 9780128032343 , https://books.google.co.za/books?id=XSmlCgAAQBAJanddq=hepatitis+c+in+developing+countriesandsource=gbs_navlinks_s
- Description: Because of the common routes of transmission, hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection with HIV is frequent. Of the 36.6 million HIV-infected individuals worldwide, about 25% are also coinfected with HCV. Developing countries face the greatest burden of coinfection. HIV infection has been shown to have a significant impact on the progression of chronic HCV, with a higher risk of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Because of the improvements in the management and treatment of HIV/AIDS in resource-limited countries, HCV/HIV coinfection is becoming a significant clinical problem and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. HCV/HIV coinfection is characterized by aggressive hepatic fibrogenesis, incidence of cirrhosis, and HCC. HCC is currently a major cause for liver-related deaths in HIV patients. Viral eradication has been difficult to attain with interferon and ribavirin therapies. Novel therapies with direct-acting antiviral agents have been promising for this population. However, access to such expensive regimen is far beyond the capabilities of most resource-limited countries. Yet, studies lag behind those for HCV monoinfection.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Tastan Bishop, Özlem
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148228 , vital:38721 , ISBN 9780128032343 , https://books.google.co.za/books?id=XSmlCgAAQBAJanddq=hepatitis+c+in+developing+countriesandsource=gbs_navlinks_s
- Description: Because of the common routes of transmission, hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection with HIV is frequent. Of the 36.6 million HIV-infected individuals worldwide, about 25% are also coinfected with HCV. Developing countries face the greatest burden of coinfection. HIV infection has been shown to have a significant impact on the progression of chronic HCV, with a higher risk of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Because of the improvements in the management and treatment of HIV/AIDS in resource-limited countries, HCV/HIV coinfection is becoming a significant clinical problem and a major cause of morbidity and mortality. HCV/HIV coinfection is characterized by aggressive hepatic fibrogenesis, incidence of cirrhosis, and HCC. HCC is currently a major cause for liver-related deaths in HIV patients. Viral eradication has been difficult to attain with interferon and ribavirin therapies. Novel therapies with direct-acting antiviral agents have been promising for this population. However, access to such expensive regimen is far beyond the capabilities of most resource-limited countries. Yet, studies lag behind those for HCV monoinfection.
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- Date Issued: 2018
How Far, Where To?: regionalism, the Southern African Development Community and decision-making into the Millennium
- Authors: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161638 , vital:40649 , ISBN 9781138726093
- Description: This title was first published in 2002: The resurgence of the democratization movement in Africa in the post-Cold War era is gradually replacing authoritarianism with forms of democratic systems. These changes have put into question the traditional big man image of African states’ foreign policy and foreign policy-making. The first book of its kind to focus on the foreign policy-making process of Southern African countries in the era of globalization, these instructive and rewarding case studies contextualize the increasing involvement of other internal actors in African states foreign policy-making process. Foreign policy actors such as the Presidency, Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Trade, Finance and the Intelligence Community, among others, are examined in a comparative perspective.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161638 , vital:40649 , ISBN 9781138726093
- Description: This title was first published in 2002: The resurgence of the democratization movement in Africa in the post-Cold War era is gradually replacing authoritarianism with forms of democratic systems. These changes have put into question the traditional big man image of African states’ foreign policy and foreign policy-making. The first book of its kind to focus on the foreign policy-making process of Southern African countries in the era of globalization, these instructive and rewarding case studies contextualize the increasing involvement of other internal actors in African states foreign policy-making process. Foreign policy actors such as the Presidency, Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs, Trade, Finance and the Intelligence Community, among others, are examined in a comparative perspective.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Regulation of the extracellular matrix by heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones:
- Boel, Natasha M-E, Edkins, Adrienne L
- Authors: Boel, Natasha M-E , Edkins, Adrienne L
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164368 , vital:41112 , ISBN 978-3-319-69040-7 , DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69042-1_6
- Description: The extracellular matrix (ECM) serves as a scaffold for cells within tissues and is composed of an intricate network of glycoproteins, growth factors and matricellular proteins which cooperatively function in cell processes such as migration, adhesion and wound healing. ECM morphology is constantly undergoing remodelling (synthesis, assembly and degradation) during normal cell processes and when deregulated may contribute to disease. Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are involved in regulating processes that determine the assembly and degradation of the ECM at multiple levels, in both normal and diseased states. These roles include mediating the activation of ECM-degrading enzymes, maintaining matrix stability and clearing aggregated/misfolded proteins. Hsp may serve as chaperones and receptors or have cytokine-like functions. In this chapter, we review how Hsp90, Hsp70, Hsp40 and a number of ER resident chaperones contribute to ECM regulation. The role of the non-Hsp chaperones, SPARC and clusterin in the ECM is also discussed.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Boel, Natasha M-E , Edkins, Adrienne L
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164368 , vital:41112 , ISBN 978-3-319-69040-7 , DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69042-1_6
- Description: The extracellular matrix (ECM) serves as a scaffold for cells within tissues and is composed of an intricate network of glycoproteins, growth factors and matricellular proteins which cooperatively function in cell processes such as migration, adhesion and wound healing. ECM morphology is constantly undergoing remodelling (synthesis, assembly and degradation) during normal cell processes and when deregulated may contribute to disease. Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are involved in regulating processes that determine the assembly and degradation of the ECM at multiple levels, in both normal and diseased states. These roles include mediating the activation of ECM-degrading enzymes, maintaining matrix stability and clearing aggregated/misfolded proteins. Hsp may serve as chaperones and receptors or have cytokine-like functions. In this chapter, we review how Hsp90, Hsp70, Hsp40 and a number of ER resident chaperones contribute to ECM regulation. The role of the non-Hsp chaperones, SPARC and clusterin in the ECM is also discussed.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Sub-volcanic intrusions and the link to global climatic and environmental changes:
- Svensen, Henrik H, Planke, Sverre, Neumann, Else-Ragnhild, Aarnes, Ingrid, Marsh, Julian S, Polteau, Stéphane, Harstad, Camilla H, Chevallier, Luc
- Authors: Svensen, Henrik H , Planke, Sverre , Neumann, Else-Ragnhild , Aarnes, Ingrid , Marsh, Julian S , Polteau, Stéphane , Harstad, Camilla H , Chevallier, Luc
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145166 , vital:38414 , ISBN 9783319140841 , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11157_2015_10
- Description: Most of the Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) formed during the last 260 million years are associated with climatic changes, oceanic anoxia, or extinctions in marine and terrestrial environments. Current hypotheses involve (1) degassing of carbon from either oceans or shallow sea-bed reservoirs, (2) degassing from flood basalts, or from (3) sedimentary basins heavily intruded by LIP-related sills. These hypotheses are based on detailed geological and geochemical studies from LIPSs or relevant proxy data sequences. Here we present new data on gas generation and degassing from a LIP, based on the LA1/68 borehole north of the Ladybrand area in the Karoo Basin, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Svensen, Henrik H , Planke, Sverre , Neumann, Else-Ragnhild , Aarnes, Ingrid , Marsh, Julian S , Polteau, Stéphane , Harstad, Camilla H , Chevallier, Luc
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145166 , vital:38414 , ISBN 9783319140841 , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11157_2015_10
- Description: Most of the Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) formed during the last 260 million years are associated with climatic changes, oceanic anoxia, or extinctions in marine and terrestrial environments. Current hypotheses involve (1) degassing of carbon from either oceans or shallow sea-bed reservoirs, (2) degassing from flood basalts, or from (3) sedimentary basins heavily intruded by LIP-related sills. These hypotheses are based on detailed geological and geochemical studies from LIPSs or relevant proxy data sequences. Here we present new data on gas generation and degassing from a LIP, based on the LA1/68 borehole north of the Ladybrand area in the Karoo Basin, South Africa.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Teaching Postcolonial Crime Fiction:
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158013 , vital:40139 , ISBN 978-3-319-90608-9
- Description: This chapter is a survey of teaching crime fiction in postcolonial South Africa. After offering a definition and historicisation of postcolonial crime fiction in general, the survey focuses on my third-year undergraduate course, ‘Sleuthing the State: South African Crime and Detective Fiction’. The survey includes a description of the curriculum content, teaching methods, forms of assessment and student evaluation. The chapter also contains theoretical discussion about the practical and ethical implications of teaching crime fiction in a turbulent and transitional socio-political context. To end, the chapter comments on the high points of this teaching experience and on some of the challenges encountered.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158013 , vital:40139 , ISBN 978-3-319-90608-9
- Description: This chapter is a survey of teaching crime fiction in postcolonial South Africa. After offering a definition and historicisation of postcolonial crime fiction in general, the survey focuses on my third-year undergraduate course, ‘Sleuthing the State: South African Crime and Detective Fiction’. The survey includes a description of the curriculum content, teaching methods, forms of assessment and student evaluation. The chapter also contains theoretical discussion about the practical and ethical implications of teaching crime fiction in a turbulent and transitional socio-political context. To end, the chapter comments on the high points of this teaching experience and on some of the challenges encountered.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Teaching Postcolonial Crime Fiction:
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158024 , vital:40140 , ISBN 978-3-319-90608-9
- Description: This chapter is a survey of teaching crime fiction in postcolonial South Africa. After offering a definition and historicisation of postcolonial crime fiction in general, the survey focuses on my third-year undergraduate course, ‘Sleuthing the State: South African Crime and Detective Fiction’. The survey includes a description of the curriculum content, teaching methods, forms of assessment and student evaluation. The chapter also contains theoretical discussion about the practical and ethical implications of teaching crime fiction in a turbulent and transitional socio-political context. To end, the chapter comments on the high points of this teaching experience and on some of the challenges encountered.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158024 , vital:40140 , ISBN 978-3-319-90608-9
- Description: This chapter is a survey of teaching crime fiction in postcolonial South Africa. After offering a definition and historicisation of postcolonial crime fiction in general, the survey focuses on my third-year undergraduate course, ‘Sleuthing the State: South African Crime and Detective Fiction’. The survey includes a description of the curriculum content, teaching methods, forms of assessment and student evaluation. The chapter also contains theoretical discussion about the practical and ethical implications of teaching crime fiction in a turbulent and transitional socio-political context. To end, the chapter comments on the high points of this teaching experience and on some of the challenges encountered.
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- Date Issued: 2018
The lenses we use to research student experiences:
- Hlengwa, Amanda I, McKenna, Sioux, Njovane, Thandokazi
- Authors: Hlengwa, Amanda I , McKenna, Sioux , Njovane, Thandokazi
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142736 , vital:38112 , ISBN 9781928331902 , http://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e3388578-a030-46de-8d8e-df18dcb52bec/Higher_Education_Pathways_9781928331902.pdf#page=160
- Description: The recent student protests that erupted in the South African higher education landscape in 2015 and 2016 suggest that research concerning student experiences in our institutions has become all the more crucial. In light of this, our chapter argues for theoretically rigorous and conceptually rich approaches to research on the student experience, without which we will not be in a position to address the significant concerns raised by these protests. There is, of course, already a robust body of work detailing the student experience (for example Case, 2013; Case, Marshall, McKenna, and Mogashana, 2018; Walker and Wilson-Strydom, 2017). However, questions are often raised about the extent to which such research is being drawn on in subsequent studies (Niven, 2012) and this suggests that limited accounts of student experience remain dominant despite this body of research (Boughey and McKenna, 2016). It thus seemed important to make sense of the ways in which current research on student experience is being constructed.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Hlengwa, Amanda I , McKenna, Sioux , Njovane, Thandokazi
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142736 , vital:38112 , ISBN 9781928331902 , http://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e3388578-a030-46de-8d8e-df18dcb52bec/Higher_Education_Pathways_9781928331902.pdf#page=160
- Description: The recent student protests that erupted in the South African higher education landscape in 2015 and 2016 suggest that research concerning student experiences in our institutions has become all the more crucial. In light of this, our chapter argues for theoretically rigorous and conceptually rich approaches to research on the student experience, without which we will not be in a position to address the significant concerns raised by these protests. There is, of course, already a robust body of work detailing the student experience (for example Case, 2013; Case, Marshall, McKenna, and Mogashana, 2018; Walker and Wilson-Strydom, 2017). However, questions are often raised about the extent to which such research is being drawn on in subsequent studies (Niven, 2012) and this suggests that limited accounts of student experience remain dominant despite this body of research (Boughey and McKenna, 2016). It thus seemed important to make sense of the ways in which current research on student experience is being constructed.
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- Date Issued: 2018
The Palgrave handbook of ethics in critical research
- Macleod, Catriona I, Marx, Jacqueline, Mnyaka, Phindezwa, Treharne, Gareth J
- Authors: Macleod, Catriona I , Marx, Jacqueline , Mnyaka, Phindezwa , Treharne, Gareth J
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434266 , vital:73043 , ISBN 978-3-319-74720-0 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74721-7
- Description: The idea for this handbook was born at the 9th Biennial International Society of Critical Health Psychology Conference that was held in Grahamstown, South Africa, in July 2015. As such, our first acknowledgement goes to the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), especially members of the Executive Committee and the Conference Organising Committee, for creating the kind of space in which innovative and critical debates and dialogues are fostered and in which like-minded people from across the globe may collaborate.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Macleod, Catriona I , Marx, Jacqueline , Mnyaka, Phindezwa , Treharne, Gareth J
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/434266 , vital:73043 , ISBN 978-3-319-74720-0 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74721-7
- Description: The idea for this handbook was born at the 9th Biennial International Society of Critical Health Psychology Conference that was held in Grahamstown, South Africa, in July 2015. As such, our first acknowledgement goes to the International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISCHP), especially members of the Executive Committee and the Conference Organising Committee, for creating the kind of space in which innovative and critical debates and dialogues are fostered and in which like-minded people from across the globe may collaborate.
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- Date Issued: 2018
When an Editor Decides to Listen to a City: Heather Robertson, The Herald, and Nelson Mandela Bay
- Garman, Anthea, Malila, Vanessa
- Authors: Garman, Anthea , Malila, Vanessa
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158427 , vital:40185 , ISBN 9781351664363
- Description: This book provides case studies, many incorporating in-depth interviews and surveys of journalists. It examines issues such as journalists’ attitudes toward their contributions to society; the impact of industry and technological changes; culture and minority issues in the newsroom and profession; the impact of censorship and self-censorship; and coping with psychological pressures and physical safety dilemmas. Its chapters also highlight journalists’ challenges in national and multinational contexts. International scholars, conducting research within a wide range of authoritarian, semi-democratic, and democratic systems, contributed to this examination of journalistic practices in the Arab World, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Samoa, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Garman, Anthea , Malila, Vanessa
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158427 , vital:40185 , ISBN 9781351664363
- Description: This book provides case studies, many incorporating in-depth interviews and surveys of journalists. It examines issues such as journalists’ attitudes toward their contributions to society; the impact of industry and technological changes; culture and minority issues in the newsroom and profession; the impact of censorship and self-censorship; and coping with psychological pressures and physical safety dilemmas. Its chapters also highlight journalists’ challenges in national and multinational contexts. International scholars, conducting research within a wide range of authoritarian, semi-democratic, and democratic systems, contributed to this examination of journalistic practices in the Arab World, Australia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Samoa, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States.
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- Date Issued: 2018
When the students are revolting: the (im) possibilities of listening in academic contexts in South Africa
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158416 , vital:40182 , ISBN 978-3-319-93958-2 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/978-3-319-93958-2
- Description: Student activists in South Africa have put the decolonisation of higher education firmly on the agenda, demanding that researchers and teachers pay attention to something in particular that is very hard to hear and very possibly unhearable. These young, black South Africans are the intellectual force upon whom we are depending for the altered future of our country. We cannot change the circumstances which continue to frustrate and anger them without paying particular attention to them. Taking on the knowledge bases and knowledge generation in the Global South, they are demanding that we rethink the logos-based project of universities in South Africa. Their struggle is critically about how knowledge is implicated as a shaping force in lives which are still defined by colonial governmentality.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158416 , vital:40182 , ISBN 978-3-319-93958-2 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/978-3-319-93958-2
- Description: Student activists in South Africa have put the decolonisation of higher education firmly on the agenda, demanding that researchers and teachers pay attention to something in particular that is very hard to hear and very possibly unhearable. These young, black South Africans are the intellectual force upon whom we are depending for the altered future of our country. We cannot change the circumstances which continue to frustrate and anger them without paying particular attention to them. Taking on the knowledge bases and knowledge generation in the Global South, they are demanding that we rethink the logos-based project of universities in South Africa. Their struggle is critically about how knowledge is implicated as a shaping force in lives which are still defined by colonial governmentality.
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- Date Issued: 2018
A “Horrific Breakdown of Reason": Holmes and the Postcolonial Anti-Detective Novel, Lost Ground
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157980 , vital:40136 , ISBN 978-1-137-55595-3
- Description: Using the notion of “negative hermeneutics,” this chapter examines how Michiel Heyns’s novel Lost Ground draws on the heritage of the Sherlock Holmes stories. It argues that Heyns’s representation of contemporary South Africa necessitates a shift from the emphasis on the epistemological quests of nineteenth-century detective fiction to the “negative hermeneutics” and ontological concerns of postcolonial anti-detective fiction. An analysis of Lost Ground reveals direct intertextual and metatextual references to “The Silver Blaze,” yet the novel subversively presents a detective figure that is the antithesis of Holmes. Thus the chapter demonstrates how in postcolonial social and cultural contexts the ratiocinative process is hermeneutically inadequate and socio-political analysis comes to replace, or combine with, the feats of reason epitomized by Holmes.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157980 , vital:40136 , ISBN 978-1-137-55595-3
- Description: Using the notion of “negative hermeneutics,” this chapter examines how Michiel Heyns’s novel Lost Ground draws on the heritage of the Sherlock Holmes stories. It argues that Heyns’s representation of contemporary South Africa necessitates a shift from the emphasis on the epistemological quests of nineteenth-century detective fiction to the “negative hermeneutics” and ontological concerns of postcolonial anti-detective fiction. An analysis of Lost Ground reveals direct intertextual and metatextual references to “The Silver Blaze,” yet the novel subversively presents a detective figure that is the antithesis of Holmes. Thus the chapter demonstrates how in postcolonial social and cultural contexts the ratiocinative process is hermeneutically inadequate and socio-political analysis comes to replace, or combine with, the feats of reason epitomized by Holmes.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Boast and bellow, giggle or chatter: gender and verbs of speech in children's fiction
- Authors: Hunt, Sally
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139279 , vital:37722 , ISBN no ISBN , https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/2017/cl2017/index.aspx
- Description: Continued gender inequality and gendered representations in the media, broadly construed, remain of concern because of the dialectic relationship between language and society. One source of gender cues is fiction written for and consumed by children. The characters encountered in the pages of a popular book constitute the stuff of identity building and may become role models for thousands of young and impressionable readers.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Hunt, Sally
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139279 , vital:37722 , ISBN no ISBN , https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/corpus/events/2017/cl2017/index.aspx
- Description: Continued gender inequality and gendered representations in the media, broadly construed, remain of concern because of the dialectic relationship between language and society. One source of gender cues is fiction written for and consumed by children. The characters encountered in the pages of a popular book constitute the stuff of identity building and may become role models for thousands of young and impressionable readers.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Chapter one: Founding and establishing an imperial university: the first twenty-five years
- Authors: Maylam, Paul
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes Unviersity , Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59896 , vital:27689
- Description: Critics of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that sat in the late 1990s have sometimes pointed to its failure to examine the role of larger collectivities in colluding with or acquiescing in the apartheid system. Universities, for instance, have been singled out for their failure both to make submissions to the TRC and to acknowledge openly their past shortcomings during the apartheid era. The historically white, English-medium universities – among them Rhodes University – liked to project themselves as liberal institutions. This book puts this self-representation to the test by looking critically at the operation and functioning of Rhodes University during the segregation and apartheid eras. This study is one of very few that recounts and analyses the whole history of a South African university in a single volume. It covers the founding of Rhodes University College (as it was then called) in 1904, traces its development over the decades, through the attainment of independent status in 1951, ending with a full consideration of the transformation challenges that the university has faced in the post-apartheid era. This is a critical study that points to some of the university’s past failures. But there is also a celebratory dimension, as the book highlights some of the achievements and successes of those who have worked and studied at Rhodes University over the past 112 or so years. , Please note that only the first chapter of the book is available online. For further information, or should you wish to purchase a copy of this item, please contact Bulelani Mothlabane (b.mothlabaneATru.ac.za).
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Maylam, Paul
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes Unviersity , Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59896 , vital:27689
- Description: Critics of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that sat in the late 1990s have sometimes pointed to its failure to examine the role of larger collectivities in colluding with or acquiescing in the apartheid system. Universities, for instance, have been singled out for their failure both to make submissions to the TRC and to acknowledge openly their past shortcomings during the apartheid era. The historically white, English-medium universities – among them Rhodes University – liked to project themselves as liberal institutions. This book puts this self-representation to the test by looking critically at the operation and functioning of Rhodes University during the segregation and apartheid eras. This study is one of very few that recounts and analyses the whole history of a South African university in a single volume. It covers the founding of Rhodes University College (as it was then called) in 1904, traces its development over the decades, through the attainment of independent status in 1951, ending with a full consideration of the transformation challenges that the university has faced in the post-apartheid era. This is a critical study that points to some of the university’s past failures. But there is also a celebratory dimension, as the book highlights some of the achievements and successes of those who have worked and studied at Rhodes University over the past 112 or so years. , Please note that only the first chapter of the book is available online. For further information, or should you wish to purchase a copy of this item, please contact Bulelani Mothlabane (b.mothlabaneATru.ac.za).
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- Date Issued: 2017
Cultural adaptations of Dance Movement Psychotherapy experiences: from a UK higher education context to working with communities in southern Africa facing water related inequality
- Copteros, Athina, Karkou, Vicky, Palmer, Carolyn G
- Authors: Copteros, Athina , Karkou, Vicky , Palmer, Carolyn G
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141995 , vital:38022 , ISBN 9780199949298 , https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199949298.001.0001
- Description: Water plays a key role in all our lives and in South Africa epitomizes a space in which political inequalities have played themselves out with devastating consequences. The current ecological crisis demands new ways of engaging with ourselves, each other and nature. This research is an initial exploration on the use of a body-based creative movement approach within a transdisciplinary complex social-ecological systems researcher group. The research objective discussed in this chapter is to develop culturally relevant themes from professional Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) training in the UK for application in a South African water resource management context. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to identify culturally relevant themes based on the recorded perceptions of the phenomenon of the training while it was taking place. The themes of: Awareness of Power and Difference; Therapeutic Adaptability; Sharing Leadership and Connecting with the Environment were identified. Artistic Inquiry was used to creatively reflect on the themes and add an embodied response to the discussion. The cultural adaptations of DMP can contribute to a more engaged and non-hierarchical collaboration between practitioners and the people and communities they serve, which would facilitate a therapeutic practice that works with both internal, external (and even transcendental) factors.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Copteros, Athina , Karkou, Vicky , Palmer, Carolyn G
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141995 , vital:38022 , ISBN 9780199949298 , https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199949298.001.0001
- Description: Water plays a key role in all our lives and in South Africa epitomizes a space in which political inequalities have played themselves out with devastating consequences. The current ecological crisis demands new ways of engaging with ourselves, each other and nature. This research is an initial exploration on the use of a body-based creative movement approach within a transdisciplinary complex social-ecological systems researcher group. The research objective discussed in this chapter is to develop culturally relevant themes from professional Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP) training in the UK for application in a South African water resource management context. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to identify culturally relevant themes based on the recorded perceptions of the phenomenon of the training while it was taking place. The themes of: Awareness of Power and Difference; Therapeutic Adaptability; Sharing Leadership and Connecting with the Environment were identified. Artistic Inquiry was used to creatively reflect on the themes and add an embodied response to the discussion. The cultural adaptations of DMP can contribute to a more engaged and non-hierarchical collaboration between practitioners and the people and communities they serve, which would facilitate a therapeutic practice that works with both internal, external (and even transcendental) factors.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Enabling green skills: Pathways to sustainable development
- Ramsarup, Presha, Ward, Mike, Rosenberg, Eureta, Jenkin, Nicola, Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Authors: Ramsarup, Presha , Ward, Mike , Rosenberg, Eureta , Jenkin, Nicola , Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436702 , vital:73294 , ISBN 978-0-620-79605-7 , https://www.vetafrica4-0.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Green-Skills-Sourcebook-Jul18.pdf
- Description: The purpose of this source book is to support skills planning entities to work with employers to identify and anticipate green skills needs and to build these needs into occupational de-scriptors and sector skills plans. Thus, the source book com-plements the existing Enabling Document (DEA, 2010b) and provides guidelines to support Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) to embed environmental considerations, related occupations and green skills into their skills planning processes.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Ramsarup, Presha , Ward, Mike , Rosenberg, Eureta , Jenkin, Nicola , Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436702 , vital:73294 , ISBN 978-0-620-79605-7 , https://www.vetafrica4-0.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Green-Skills-Sourcebook-Jul18.pdf
- Description: The purpose of this source book is to support skills planning entities to work with employers to identify and anticipate green skills needs and to build these needs into occupational de-scriptors and sector skills plans. Thus, the source book com-plements the existing Enabling Document (DEA, 2010b) and provides guidelines to support Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) to embed environmental considerations, related occupations and green skills into their skills planning processes.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Evil and the Hero-Villain Binary in Deon Meyer’s Post-Apartheid Crime Thriller, Devil’s Peak:
- Naidu, Samantha, van der Wielen, Karlien
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha , van der Wielen, Karlien
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157991 , vital:40137 , ISBN 9781498533423
- Description: The Functions of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts explores answers to two important questions about the age-old theme of evil: is there any use in using the concept of evil in cultural, psychological, or other secular evaluations of the world and its productions? Most importantly, if there is, what might these functions be? By looking across several disciplines and analyzing evil as it is referenced across a broad spectrum of phenomena, this work demonstrates the varying ways that we interact with the ethical dilemma as academics, as citizens, and as people. The work draws from authors in different fields—including history, literary and film studies, philosophy, and psychology—and from around the world to provide an analysis of evil in such topics as deeply canonical as Beowulf and Shakespeare to subjects as culturally resonant as Stephen King, Captain America, or the War on Terror. By bringing together this otherwise disparate collection of scholarship, this collection reveals that discussions of evil across disciplines have always been questions of how cultures represent that which they find socially abhorrent. This work thus opens the conversation about evil outside of field-specific limitations, simultaneously demonstrating the assumptions that undergird the manner by which such a conversation proceeds.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha , van der Wielen, Karlien
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157991 , vital:40137 , ISBN 9781498533423
- Description: The Functions of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts explores answers to two important questions about the age-old theme of evil: is there any use in using the concept of evil in cultural, psychological, or other secular evaluations of the world and its productions? Most importantly, if there is, what might these functions be? By looking across several disciplines and analyzing evil as it is referenced across a broad spectrum of phenomena, this work demonstrates the varying ways that we interact with the ethical dilemma as academics, as citizens, and as people. The work draws from authors in different fields—including history, literary and film studies, philosophy, and psychology—and from around the world to provide an analysis of evil in such topics as deeply canonical as Beowulf and Shakespeare to subjects as culturally resonant as Stephen King, Captain America, or the War on Terror. By bringing together this otherwise disparate collection of scholarship, this collection reveals that discussions of evil across disciplines have always been questions of how cultures represent that which they find socially abhorrent. This work thus opens the conversation about evil outside of field-specific limitations, simultaneously demonstrating the assumptions that undergird the manner by which such a conversation proceeds.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Germinating in the cracks: the identity of contemporary Zambian art
- Authors: Mulenga, Andrew
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146222 , vital:38506 , ISBN 9783863883065
- Description: Culture is the heritage of us all. Some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail to take pride in his country's participation in the story of mankind as represented in carvings, sculpture, music, painting, and the other arts (Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe 1964). After gaining independence in 1964, the next move for Zambia, like most newly-born African states at the time, was nation-building.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Mulenga, Andrew
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146222 , vital:38506 , ISBN 9783863883065
- Description: Culture is the heritage of us all. Some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail to take pride in his country's participation in the story of mankind as represented in carvings, sculpture, music, painting, and the other arts (Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe 1964). After gaining independence in 1964, the next move for Zambia, like most newly-born African states at the time, was nation-building.
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- Date Issued: 2017