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Response to Prathama Banerjee's sovereignty and ascendancy: south Asian reflections
(Academia, 2018)In this fantastic, wide-ranging but closely argued paper Prathama Banerjee makes the case that the concept of sovereignty is not a universal concept, but rather that it has a particular, substantive meaning developed in ... -
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, ... -
Rethinking non-racialism: Reflections of a selection of South African leaders
(Taylor & Francis group, 2017)T Drawing from in-depth interviews with 26 prominent South Africans, this article looks at how leaders in government, political parties, business and civil society understand and interpret non-racialism today. It ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Revolution in military affairs, missile defence and weapons in space: The US strategic triad
(Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2005)American plans for Missile Defence (MD) and the weaponisation of space should be analysed in the larger framework of the contemporary Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).1 Soviet military analysts have written about this ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Small parties and independents – from also-rans to kingmakers
(SUN Press, 2012)Small parties and independents play an important role in South Africa’s democracy. It is on the level of the local that these small parties and independents have some chance to make indents in terms of winning a few wards ... -
Social sustainability for whom? developing an analytical approach through a tripartite collaboration
(Emerald [Commercial Publisher], 2023)Purpose Social sustainability is a concept frequently referred to in public debates concerning how to construct the governance of future societies. The interpretations of its meaning, however, are ambiguous, and practices ... -
Some aspects of South Africa’s foreign policy on the civil wars in Côte D’Ivoire, Libya, and Mali
(2013)During the 1960s, intervention in Africa by both the UNO and former colonial powers such as France was imposed on Africans. After half a century, Pan-Africanists have started to challenge, sometimes successfully, sometimes ... -
South Africa's space programme - Past, present, future
(Routledge, 2010)This article introduces and analyses South Africa’s space programme. This divides into three phases. First was the age of amateurs 1947-1962. Second, between 1963-1993, South Africa’s apartheid ancien regime started ... -
Status quo entrenched and no surprises in the Western Cape
(South African Association of Public Administration and Management (SAAPAM), 2016)Unlike previous elections in the province, there was an expectance that the Democratic Alliance (DA) would retain control of the City of Cape Town, as well as consolidate in other municipalities in the Western Cape. In ... -
Student involvement in university decision-making: Good reasons, a new lens
(2011-04-04)This paper proposes a framework for understanding student involvement in different domains of university decision-making based on the various reasons brought for and against student involvement. It briefly outlines the ... -
The tale of two publics: Media, political representation and citizenship in Hout Bay,
(HSRC Press, 2017)This chapter makes the case that access to the spaces of public debate in post-apartheid South Africa is about the challenge of political representation as much as it is about the challenge of access to communication ... -
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 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 ... -
Tenderpreneur (also tenderpreneurship and tenderpreneurism)
(UCL Press, 2018)‘Tenderpreneur’ is a South African colloquialism for a businessperson who uses political contacts to secure government procurement contracts (called ‘tenders’) often as part of reciprocal exchange of favours or benefits. ... -
Too dependent to participate: ward committees and local democratisation in South Africa
(Routledge, 2009)Will participatory local government structures help deepen democracy in South Africa? That is the proclaimed purpose of the ward committee system, the centre- piece of post-apartheid local government reform, intended to ...