Research Articles (Political Studies): Recent submissions
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Representing Hamilton
(Taylor & Francis group, 2017)In his most important book to date, Freedom is Power: Liberty Through Political Representation (2014b), Lawrence Hamilton offers what he describes as a realistic theory of freedom for modern conditions, located in the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Party support and voter behaviour in the Western Cape: Trends and patterns since 1994
(Sabinet, 2010)Since 1994 election outcomes in the Western Cape have been examined through analyses of the ‘coloured vote’. These explanations, which are premised on the racially based motivations of voters, feed into the choices, rhetoric ... -
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 ... -
The technological culture of war
(SAGE, 2008)The article proceeds from the argument that war is a social institution and not a historical inevitability of human interaction, that is, war can be “unlearned.” This process involves deconstructing/dismantling war as an ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
The emergent practice of governance and its implications for the concept of politics
(AJOL, 2007)This paper explores the implications of the disjuncture between the real-world practice of governance and the popular understanding of politics. There are two ways of addressing this disjuncture. The first is to accept the ... -
Skills at masters’ level in Geography Higher E: Teaching, learning and applying
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)The perceptions of ‘skills’ at taught Master's level between course directors (teaching of skills), alumni (learning and use of skills) and employers (the skills requirements) were compared within the field of development ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Return to the organic: Onions, artichokes and 'the debate' on the nation and modernity
(Berghahn Books, 2004)There exist in intellectual history periods where, following intense deliberation on a question, something like a consensus emerges. Typically the consensus amounts to a refinement of the competing views on the question ... -
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 ... -
Nationalism without a nation: The rise and fall of Zulu nationalism in South Africa's transition to democracy, 1975-99
(WILEY, 2003)During South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy the most virulent opposition to change came from Zulu nationalism. Post‐apartheid, however, Zulu nationalism has largely waned. This is because Zulu nationalism ... -
Postmodernism and the reclaiming of tradition
(Berghahn books, 1998)The history of the Zulu people is the history of myself'.1 In Africa, as elsewhere, the notion of tradition is bound up with the discourses of ethnicity and nationalism. Typically invoking pre-colonial identi- ties ... -
Rethinking multiculturalism: Cultural diversity and political theory
(SAGE, 2001)Bhikhu Parekh’s voice has always been a distinctive one in the growing chorus of political theorists who talk about the challenge of cultural diversity. His perspective is not easy to classify. He criticizes liberal, ... -
Democracy for a bargain: The 1999 election in KwaZulu‐Natal
(Taylor & Francis, 1999)While the IFP/ANC race for first place in KwaZulu-Natal was the closest of any in the country, the 1999 election was both freer and fairer than ever before, and the result was readily accepted by all parties. In short, ... -
Judgement and choice in the 1999 South African election
(Taylor & Francis, 1999)In this article, we set out the basic points of the theoretical framework of voter choice that underlie the Opinion '99 research project. In contrast to prevailing theories that have characterized voter choice in ...