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Migration, rural–urban connectivity, and food remittances in Kenya
(MPDI, 2021)
This paper draws on data from a representative city-wide household food security survey of Nairobi conducted in 2017 to examine the importance of food remitting to households in
contemporary Nairobi. The first section of ...
Governmentality and South Africa’s edifice of gender and sexual rights
(SAGE, 2021)
Leading feminist scholars and activists have critiqued the current impact of South Africa’s provisions for
gender equality and sexual rights. The country boasts one of the most progressive constitutions in the
world, and ...
Naturalised modal epistemology and quasirealism
(South African Journal of Philosophy,, 2021)
Given quasi-realism, the claim is that any attempt to naturalise modal epistemology would leave out absolute necessity. The reason, according to Simon Blackburn, is that we cannot offer an empirical psychological explanation ...
Translating conceptual qur’anic metaphor: A cogno-translational approach
(Richtmann Publishing Ltd, 2021)
This study will investigate metaphor translation as a natural phenomenon. It will analyze some of the problems involving the translation of metaphorical expressions in two Qur’anic translations, namely, Yusuf Ali's The ...
Estimating and monitoring land surface phenology in rangelands: A review of progress and challenges
(MPDI, 2021)
Land surface phenology (LSP) has been extensively explored from global archives of
satellite observations to track and monitor the seasonality of rangeland ecosystems in response
to climate change. Long term monitoring ...
Shapeshifters and shamans: Topologies of multilingualism
(King's College, 2021)
This paper is a radical break with a view of multilingualism as an arrangement or hierarchy of different languages which produces more or less visibility for these named varieties. Rather, it takes as its starting point a ...
A social ontology of “maximal” persons
(Wiley, 2021)
In this paper, I address a range of arguments put forward
by Kwame Gyekye (1992) and Bernard Matolino (2014)
denying Menkiti’s twin propositions that persons differ
ontologically from human beings and that human attitudes, ...
Some reflections on human identity in the Anthropocene
(AOSIS, 2021)
This article observes that both the similar and the dissimilar are of ethical importance in
discourse on human identity. There is a need for a common humanity and to guard against
domination in the name of difference – ...
Human uniqueness: An unfinished agenda
(Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021)
This contribution is structured in the form of a letter to Van Huyssteen focussing on his magnum opus, Alone in the World? (2006). It recognises, with Van Huyssteen, the danger of docetic detachment and scientific reductionism. ...
Extending boundaries: Team teaching to embed information literacy in a university module
(UNISA, 2020)
In today’s knowledge-based economy, the role of universities in preparing
students to be information literate and independent thinkers and researchers is
crucial. Information literacy (IL) skills enable students to become ...