Browsing by Subject "Neoliberalism"
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Austerity measures, infrastructure and economic development in South Africa (1996–2019)
(Vilnius University Press, 2023)The paper aims to establish whether austerity measures promote economic development, improve infrastructure development, and whether they exacerbate infrastructure backlogs. The methodology used is a quantitative research ... -
Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: Metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)I will seek to consider the simultaneous workings of race and capital in apartheid biopower. J.M. Coetzee offers a reading of apartheid racism as racial madness which is imbricated with economic reason. In the wake of the ... -
Editorial: The ethics of care and academic development
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)Higher education institutions have commonly understood ethics and care as separate functions, rather than as an integrated practice, and have tended to delegate these responsibilities to research ethics committees, ... -
Global health activists' lessons on building social movements for Health for all
(Springer Nature, 2020)The People's Health Movement (PHM) was formed in 2000 and drew inspiration from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care's 'Health for All' (1978). Since then PHM has been an active part of a global counter-hegemonic ... -
Globalisation and health inequalities: can a human rights paradigm create space for civil society action?
(Elsevier Ltd, 2012)While neoliberal globalisation is associated with increasing inequalities, global integration has simultaneously strengthened the dissemination of human rights discourse across the world. This paper explores the seeming ... -
The impact of the neoliberal technological epoch and Covid-19 on the decolonization of the university curriculum
(Stellenbosch University, 2021)In this article we will argue that South Africa’s capitalist neoliberal agenda for higher education, where the focus is on the shift from a knowledge economy to a digital economy, will choke the life of indigenous knowledge ... -
Neoliberalism, regime rurvival, and the environment: economic reform and agricultural transformation in Zimbabwe in the 1990s
(Taylor & Francis, 2001)Economic reform in Zimbabwe under the auspices of the Bank World Bank and IMF began in 1991. The first phase of program, called structural economic adjustment program (ESAP ) lasted from 1991 to 1996. The second phase, ... -
Orders of protection: Feminist lessons in anti-privatization and authoritarianism from South Africa
(Society for Cultural Anthropology, 2022)The feminist adage “the personal is political” is not ahistorical. It is being operationalized in a time when the relationship between the private and the public is undergoing historic transformation. Making privatized ... -
The Rise of the University without Classrooms after COVID-19
(CSSALL, 2020)In this chapter we argue that university face-to-face teaching will gradually be replaced in the future with online teaching. In particular, we argue, this will happen in the light of the Fallist movement that has affected ...