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BOOK REVIEW Understanding human health in relation to the global political economy Jonathan JansenDepartment of Education Policy Studies, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Email ... , South Africa. Email: Book Title: Covid-19 and the global political economy: Crises in the 21st century Authors: Tim Di Muzio and Matt Dow ISBN: 9781032168197 (paperback, 316 pp
SIGNIFICANCE: In effective developmental states, technocrats are 'embedded' in the political system with sufficient autonomy to undertake their tasks. South Africa's current electricity crisis is ... Africa's current electricity crisis is attributed here, in part, to an initial mistrust between the country's new political leadership and its 'old-order' technocrats following the political transition of
a world after critique, as part of the Conversations with Global Thinkers series of Science Forum South Africa 2020.Keywords : metaphysics; democracy; philosophy; de-postcolonialism; criticalisation ... what is wrong with de-postcolonial.6 The de-postcolonial theory is constructed out of the resources and the political intention of the auto-critique which appeared in philosophy in the 20th century which
-colonialism. Lamola claims that 'as a philosophy emanating from the historical milieu of a traumatised people, (African) philosophy still has to make peace with the searing challenge of the psycho-political ... psycho-political effects of language in all its varied implications and complexities as raised by Fanon and Ngugi'; concluding that 'professional African philosophy remains an intractable defective
Rural landscapes in South Africa experience high conversion rates due to intense land use; however, the changes are site specific and depend on the socio-economic and political history of the area ... -economic and political history of the area. Land cover change (LCC) was assessed in response to socio-economic and political factors in uThukela Municipal District, KwaZulu-Natal, using Landsat imagery from
INVITED COMMENTARY More eyes on COVID-19: Perspectives from Philosophy - How philosophy bears on COVID-19 Thaddeus MetzDepartment of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South ... , Johannesburg, South Africa Correspondence Keywords: COVID-19, humanities, philosophy, ethics, epistemology Philosophy is rational enquiry that addresses fundamental matters of human life
INVITED COMMENTARY More eyes on COVID-19: Perspectives from Political Science - Insights from the political management of COVID-19 Adam HabibVice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the ... , University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Correspondence Keywords: COVID-19, South Africa, social sciences, humanities, political science It is often said that crises
collecting data to show that load shedding impacts the prevalence of mental disorders. While it may make superficial strategic sense for activists to link load shedding to mental health as a political strategy ... needed to prove such assertions. We highlight how linking mental health to load shedding might further political ends (such as normalising mental illness), while also arguing that claiming such links in
). Depoliticized Environments: The End of Nature, Climate Change and the Post-Political Condition. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 69: 253–274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246111000300. Tummers ... University, GB X close Chizu Sato Wageningen University, NL X close Abstract Editorial for the special feature. Keywords: feminist political ecology , commons
and/or incentives to apply these toolkits in their everyday work. We adopt a feminist political ecology lens to analyse some of the barriers to reduce social inequalities in the management of global ... demonstrating physical strength and emotional hardiness. In such a setting, paying attention to vulnerabilities, inequalities and disparities are incompatible objectives. Keywords: feminist political
and/or incentives to apply these toolkits in their everyday work. We adopt a feminist political ecology lens to analyse some of the barriers to reduce social inequalities in the management of global ... demonstrating physical strength and emotional hardiness. In such a setting, paying attention to vulnerabilities, inequalities and disparities are incompatible objectives. Keywords: feminist political
). Depoliticized Environments: The End of Nature, Climate Change and the Post-Political Condition. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements 69: 253–274. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246111000300. Tummers ... University, GB X close Chizu Sato Wageningen University, NL X close Abstract Editorial for the special feature. Keywords: feminist political ecology , commons
infrastructure, agricultural inputs and harvest to overcome resource constraints and to increase their bargaining power. Employing a feminist political ecology lens, we ask: to what extent can collective farming ... demonstrates that feminist political ecology can compliment commons studies by providing meaningful insights on ambivalences around approaches such as collective farming. Keywords: Collective farming
commoning. This essay expands feminist political ecology’s approaches to the study of the commons and commoning by integrating some insights from existing eco- and autonomist Marxist feminims as well as
BOOK REVIEW Interdisciplinary perspectives on the traditional 'big' questions of philosophy Anton A. van NiekerkI, IIIPhilosophy Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa ... cited author in South African academia; his Google h-index is >145. He holds doctorates in medicine, psychiatry and philosophy, and has built his department into an internationally acclaimed centre of
BOOK REVIEW Interdisciplinary perspectives on the traditional 'big' questions of philosophy Anton A. van NiekerkI, IIIPhilosophy Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa ... cited author in South African academia; his Google h-index is >145. He holds doctorates in medicine, psychiatry and philosophy, and has built his department into an internationally acclaimed centre of
BOOK REVIEW Interdisciplinary perspectives on the traditional 'big' questions of philosophy Anton A. van NiekerkI, IIIPhilosophy Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa ... cited author in South African academia; his Google h-index is >145. He holds doctorates in medicine, psychiatry and philosophy, and has built his department into an internationally acclaimed centre of
BOOK REVIEW Interdisciplinary perspectives on the traditional 'big' questions of philosophy Anton A. van NiekerkI, IIIPhilosophy Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa ... cited author in South African academia; his Google h-index is >145. He holds doctorates in medicine, psychiatry and philosophy, and has built his department into an internationally acclaimed centre of
BOOK REVIEW Interdisciplinary perspectives on the traditional 'big' questions of philosophy Anton A. van NiekerkI, IIIPhilosophy Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa ... cited author in South African academia; his Google h-index is >145. He holds doctorates in medicine, psychiatry and philosophy, and has built his department into an internationally acclaimed centre of
BOOK REVIEW Interdisciplinary perspectives on the traditional 'big' questions of philosophy Anton A. van NiekerkI, IIIPhilosophy Department, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa ... cited author in South African academia; his Google h-index is >145. He holds doctorates in medicine, psychiatry and philosophy, and has built his department into an internationally acclaimed centre of
