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    • Politics and higher education in East Africa from the 1920s to 1970 

      Mngomezulu, Bhekithemba Richard (Sun Media Bloemfontein, 2012)
      The development of higher education in East Africa has a long history. For many years, the process was characterised by political wrangling, negotiations and compromises by black and white constituencies. What eventually ...
    • Politics and the practice of planning: the case of Zimbabwean cities 

      Muchadenyika, Davison; Williams, John J. (Elsevier, 2016)
      Planning is intrinsically a political process. This paper explores how the practice and profession of planning has been affected by politics. Available evidence in Zimbabwe shows that planning is problematized by unsettled ...
    • The politics of evidence: A response to Rulli and D'Odorico 

      Scoones, Ian; Hall, Ruth; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; White, Ben; Wolford, Wendy (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
      We welcome Rulli and D’Odorico’s response to our introduction to the Journal for Peasant Studies (JPS) Forum on Global Land Grabbing(Scoones etal.2013) in which we discussed the ‘literature rush’ that has accompanied the ...
    • The politics of knowledge: Knowledge management in informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town 

      Jacobs, Floortje; Jordhus-Lier, David; Tsolekile de Wet, Pamela (Springer, 2015)
      t In situ solutions, participatory practices and the inclusion of community knowledge have become key ingredients in urban upgrading policies across the world. Knowledge, however, is not neutral, but value-laden, ...
    • The politics of social change and the transition to democratic governance: Community participation in post-apartheid South Africa 

      Williams, John J. (Juta, 2008)
      Community participation, i.e. the direct involvement/engagement of ordinary people in the affairs of planning, governance and overall development programs at the local or grassroots level, has become an integral part of ...
    • The politics of youth participation in social intervention programmes in Ghana: Implications for participatory monitoring and evaluation (pm&e) 

      Boadu, Evans Sakyi; Ile, Isioma (Lifescience Global Canada Inc., 2018)
      Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in project evaluation has gained impetus in recent literature. This paper interrogates youth participation in intervention programmes in Ghana with special reference to ...
    • Politics, centralisation and service delivery in urban Zimbabwe 

      Muchadenyika, Davison; Williams, John J. (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
      The politics of urban control has revolved around centralisation since independence in 1980. However, such politics became more pronounced after 2000 owing to the rise of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ...
    • Polokwane land resolution creates space for struggle 

      PLAAS (PLAAS, 2008-06)
      The Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) is pleased to re-introduce Umhlaba Wethu, a quarterly bulletin on issues of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Since 2005, public debate has focused increasingly ...
    • Polycentric regional ocean governance opportunity in the Benguela current convention 

      Naidoo, Ashley; Hamukuaya, Hashali; Hara, Mafaniso (frontiers in marine-science, 2021)
      The Benguela Current Convention (BCC) has been operational for a decade and has emerged from the precursor natural and fisheries science large marine ecosystem programs. This regional ocean governance institution emerged ...
    • Popular mobilisation, party dominance and participatory governance in South Africa 

      Piper, Laurence; Nadvi, Lubna (Zed Books, 2010)
      This chapter seeks to explore the character of popular mobilization in South Africa, mostly at the local level. This is done through exploring the interaction of two independent processes. The first concerns the ...
    • Position papers for the national Land tenure summit 

      Hall, Ruth; du Toit, Andries (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
      The attached position papers were written by researchers based at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape, and at the Centre for Law and Society, University of Cape Town. ...
    • Post-agrarian biopolitics 

      du Toit, Andries (Wiley, 2017)
      How does one make sense of the incorporation of millions of South Africa’spoor and landless black people into a political and economic order thatcannot deliver on its promises — and what are the implications?The path of ...
    • Postmodernism and the reclaiming of tradition 

      Piper, Laurence (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 identities as ...
    • Postmodernism and the reclaiming of tradition 

      Piper, Laurence (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 ...
    • Potential gains from predicting the timing of stock market persistence and mean reversion 

      Hsieh, Heng-Hsing (Business Perspectives, 2013)
      This paper undertakes to investigate the effectiveness of market timing between prior winners and losers in the global equity markets using Monte Carlo simulation over the period from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2009. ...
    • Potential gains from sector timing in Taiwan 

      Hsieh, Heng-Hsing (IFRD, 2013)
      The dominance of the electronic sector in the Taiwanese stock market and the relatively low historical correlation between the Taiwanese electronic and financial sector indexes call for the exploration of sector diversity ...
    • The potential of agriculture and land reform to generate jobs 

      Cousins, Ben; Genis, Amelia; Clarke, Jeanette (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2018)
      Extremely high levels of unemployment contribute to poverty and inequality, and are one of South Africa’s most intractable problems. Can the agricultural sector help to address the problem? And how can land reform be ...
    • Poverty and inequality trends in South Africa using different survey data 

      Yu, Derek (Stellenbosch University, 2010)
      There is an abundance of literature adopting the monetary approach (i.e., using per capita income or expenditure variables) to derive poverty and inequality trends for South Africa since the transition. The most commonly ...
    • Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa 

      Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      The Universal Declaration of Human Rights introduces the recognition of the inherent dignity of all people as a foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Dignity plays a prominent role in South Africa’s ...
    • Poverty erodes dignity: perspectives of low income female caregivers in South Africa 

      Wright, Gemma; Noble, Michael; Ntshongwana, Phakama; Neves, David; Barnes, Helen (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
      Dignity is a foundational value in South Africa’s Constitution and is also experienced as a psycho-social phenomenon. Dimensions of dignity were explored with almost two hundred low income female caregivers and the impact ...