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Globalization, the latest mode of production in the world system: How regional powers have intensified and expanded capitalism
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2018)
This article examines globalization as a mode of production, tracing it from the pre-capitalist mode in Africa and linking it to the capitalist mode and, finally, the globalization mode. It is intensified and directed by ...
The security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism
(SAGE, 2008)
This article proposes the notion of a security imaginary as a heuristic tool for exploring military isomorphism (the phenomenon that weapons and military strategies begin to look the same across the world) at a time when ...
Do I need ethnic culture to be free? A critique of Will Kymlicka's liberal nationalism
(AJOL, 2002)
As part of a vigorous debate about the politics of multiculturalism, Will Kymlicka has sought to find grounds within liberal political theory to defend rights for cultural groups. Kymlicka argues that the individual's ...
Deepening democracy: A farm workers’ movement in the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)
This article explores the internal dynamics and external impact of a South African farm
workers’ movement, Sikhula Sonke. It looks at the extent to which this women-led
‘social movement trade union’ has succeeded in ...
"Dubula ibhunu" (shoot the boer): A psycho-political analysis of farm attacks in South Africa
(Scielo, 2014)
Post-colonial archetypes in the collective unconscious of South
African society have actualised themselves powerfully in the
discourses that have usurped the framing of what has come to
be called “farm attacks” in South ...
From exclusion to informal segregation: The limits to racial transformation at the University of Natal
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)
In the context of higher education transformation in South Africa, this paper
attempts to capture a series of observations about transformation at the
forme r University ofNatal. From a descriptive, multidisciplinary ...
Ethics and international security in the information age
(Taylor & Francis, 2003)
According to Moore’s Law, every 18 months technology is developed reducing electronic systems to half their previous size.1 The resultant impact upon the field of
information and communication has been revolutionary and ...
Party politics, the poor and the city: Reflections from the South African case
(Elsevier, 2012)
Local democracy and ‘spaces’ of citizenship and participation
are at the core of much contemporary research focusing on cities
(Barnett and Low, 2004). This is the case both for researchers interested
in issues of urban ...
Rethinking political crises in the Horn of Africa : local approaches to the territorial border in Ethiopia's eastern borderlands
(2014)
Political crises are often more interconnected in the Horn of Africa than in other parts of the
continent. The region challenges established notions of statehood and the trajectory of
state formation in Africa. This paper ...
Community development and engagement with local governance in South Africa
(Elsevier, 2008)
The issue of public participation is receiving increasing attention in South Africa, from both government and civil society sectors. We are witnessing acknowledgement from a wide range of public institutions that insufficient ...