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Book review: Building a capable state: service delivery in post-apartheid South Africa
(SAGE, 2019)Written by long-standing research practitioners Ian Palmer and Nishendra Moodley, as well as one of South Africa’s leading academic urbanists, Professor Sue Parnell, Building a Capable State tackles the hard question ... -
Book review: estimating groundwater recharge
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Book review: Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2017), Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
(German Institute of Global and Area Studies / Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, 2017)Nyamnjoh’s insightful book offers an original, nuanced, and penetrative interpretation of the late Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, whose true value and influence were mainly recognised only after his demise. According ... -
Book Review: Improving local government
(Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2009)Academic literature that engages in a comparison of local government systems, policies and practices and their impact on democracy and development is hard to come by. Yet, these comparisons are critical as they shed light ... -
Book Review: Judith Still, Derrida and Hospitality: theory and practice
(Edinburgh University Press, 2013)A book review of Judith Still, Derrida and Hospitality: theory and practice, (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010), 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-7486-4027-0 -
Book review: scripting defiance: four sociological vignettes
(SAGE, 2023)Background: Scripting Defiance is vast, notwithstanding the modesty of its subtitle – Four Sociological Vignettes. It comes in at 530 pages. It is fundamentally vast in ambition, with its breadth of empirical examples, and ... -
Book Review: Textbook of Global Health by A-E. Birn, Y. Pillay and T.H. Holtz
(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017)Coinciding with a renewed focus on health needs and disease in the global south, the Millennium Development Goal era saw the emergence and widespread use of the term ‘global health’. The term has been associated with ... -
Book Review: The Future of African Customary Law
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)In the abstract of "The Future of African Customary Law" the editors state that it …is intended to promote discussion and understanding of customary law and to explore its continued relevance in sub-Saharan Africa…[It] ... -
Book review: urban geology
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Boon or bane? Urban food security and online food purchasing during the Covid-19 epidemic in Nanjing, China
(MDPI, 2022)This paper examines the relationship between the rapid growth of online food purchasing and household food security during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in China using the city of Nanjing as a case study. The ... -
Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the 21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It ... -
Borehole dilution experiment in a Karoo aquifer in Bloemfontein
(Water Research Commission, 1997)This paper shows that a borehole dilution experiment using common salt is a useful technique for better understanding of some hydrogeological features of a fractured aquifer. A sense of such tracer experiments was performed ... -
Boundaries of benefit sharing: interpretation and application of substantive rules in the Lake Malawi/Niassa/Nyasa sub‑basin of the Zambezi Watercourse
(Springer, 2023)questions regarding how riparian states determine “who gets what, where, and why” in a shared watercourse. To facilitate peaceful coexistence, substantive rules—“equitable and reasonable utilisation (ERU)” and “the duty ... -
Boundless baryons: how diffuse gas contributes to anisotropic tSZ signal around simulated three hundred clusters
(Oxford University Press, 2023)Upcoming advances in galaxy surveys and cosmic microwave background data will enable measurements of the anisotropic distribution of diffuse gas in filaments and superclusters at redshift z = 1 and beyond, observed through ... -
Boys are victims, too: the influence of perpetrators’ age and gender in sexual coercion against boys
(SAGE Publications, 2018)Sexual coercion among adolescent boys in South Africa is an underresearched topic despite the frequency of such events. Although quantitative research has illuminated the prevalence of sexual coercion toward boys, it has ... -
Boys Are Victims, Too: The Influence of Perpetrators’ Age and Gender in Sexual Coercion Against Boys
(SAGE Journal, 2021-04)Sexual coercion among adolescent boys in South Africa is an underresearched topic despite the frequency of such events. Although quantitative research has illuminated the prevalence of sexual coercion toward boys, it has ... -
Boys or girls? Sex preferences declared in African and South-Asian demographic surveys
(Elsevier, 2023)In this interview with Jean-Pierre Bouchard, demographers Michel Garenne and Nancy Stiegler explore sex-preferences for girls or for boys expressed by women who responded to DHS surveys in 29 African and 10 Asian countries. ... -
Breaking baryon-cosmology degeneracy with the electron density power spectrum
(IOP Publishing, 2022)Uncertain feedback processes in galaxies affect the distribution of matter, currently limiting the power of weak lensing surveys. If we can identify cosmological statistics that are robust against these uncertainties, or ... -
Breaking new ground : the need for a protocol to the African Charter on the abolition of the death penalty in Africa
(African Human Rights Law Journal, 2005)The 1980s saw the drafting and adoption of international treaties on the abolition of the death penalty. In the European and Inter-American human rights systems, steps have been taken to abolish the death penalty by means ... -
Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies
(Indiana University Press, 2016)At the outset of an edited volume on Intellectuals and African Development, the question is posed about what went wrong.1 The call for self-reflection perhaps anticipates a further question—about how to account for the ...
