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African moral theory and media ethics: An exploration of rulings by the South African press council 2018 to 2022
(Routledge, 2024)In light of a history of an unethical news media system used by the state as an instrument of oppression, media ethics in South Africa is intended to uphold the foundational tenets of journalism and play a pivotal role in ... -
Thinking with/in surfing: Podcasting as public pedagogy and scholarship in/for the global South
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This article introduces The Deep Duck Dive —a podcast engaging with the oceanic turn in the global South by focusing on issues that matter within surfing as a lifestyle sport. As co-hosts of the podcast, we have approached ... -
Cultural and linguistic prejudices experienced by African language speaking witnesses and legal practitioners at the hands of judicial officers in South African courtroom discourse: The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial
(Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024)This article recognizes that linguistic prejudice (with its associated cultural biases) is a reality in any multilingual country, including South Africa. Prejudice is inherently human and the article suggests that it can ... -
Wild and Indigenous Foods (WIF) and Urban Food Security in Northern Namibia
(Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024)Rapid urbanisation and food system transformation in Africa have been accompanied by growing food insecurity, reduced dietary diversity, and an epidemic of non-communicable disease. While the contribution of wild and ... -
Design principles to develop digital innovation skills: a design-based research approach
(Springer, 2023)The digitisation of the world has led to a multitude of far-reaching implications that require students to be prepared for the dynamic era of rapid change, complexity, fluidity, and ubiquity in which they will work at the ... -
School actors navigating between implementor & arbiter–a qualitative study on the dynamics in multilingual schools’ language policy
(Routledge, 2023)Over the past two decades, heightened migration has increased linguistic diversity in schools. For schools to cope with this multilingualism, many governments impose a monolingual policy where only the language of instruction ... -
Austria’s post-colonial present: Missing memorialization of colonial violence
(Routledge, 2024)This article situates Austria in wider discussions around the repercussions of colonial violence on a global scale. It focusses on the ways in which anthropological disciplines fashioned specific ideas of racial and ... -
Postgraduate students’ internet use and prevalence of internet addiction: what roles can librarians play post covid-19?
(Emerald Publishing, 2023)Purpose – This study empirically analyse the lived and individual experiences of internet use time among postgraduate students in a period where the line between the virtual and real is blurred. The infusion of the internet ... -
Toward the development of a framework for literacy support and promotion by public libraries in financially and infrastructurally low-resourced territories
(Emerald Publishing, 2023)Purpose: This paper delves into the pivotal role of public libraries in supporting and promoting literacy, with a particular focus on their relevance in financially and infrastructurally low-resourced territories (FILTs). ... -
The nanjing model: comprehensive food system governance, localization and urban food security in China
(Elsevier B.V., 2023)Food supply localization has been extensively studied and advocated in North America and Europe, focusing on its oppositional stance to food system globalization, long food supply chains, the disconnect between producers ... -
Public space on the move: Mediating mobility, stillness and encounter on a Cape Town bus
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023)As a public space, the environment of public transportation services is maintained by an ordered set of rules and conditions. Such rules and conditions are prescribed by law as they are in generally-accepted norms of social ... -
Tracking the decolonial in African christian theology : a Southern African perspective on mission from the margins as a decolonial mode of mission
(John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2023)Drawing on the framework and pluriversalist vision of decoloniality, this article offers a conceptual mapping of theoretical debates and trends in recent discourse on the decolonization of theology in the Southern African ... -
Remote sensing hail damage on maize crops in smallholder farms using data acquired by remotely piloted aircraft system
(Elsevier B.V., 2023)Smallholder farmers reside in marginal environments typified by dryland maize-based farming systems. Despite the significant contribution of smallholder farmers to food production, they are vulnerable to extreme weather ... -
Restitution versus repatriation: terminology and concepts matter
(Wiley Periodicals LLC, 2024)Introduction: Through museum collecting practice, the deceased, possessions, plants and animals were turned into objects, removed from their communities and places of origin, and were segregated and divided into museum ... -
The entrepreneurial habitus of Zimbabweans in South Africa
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2023)This article argues that individuals’ internalised frameworks, shaped by Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, play a crucial role in their ability to conceive entrepreneurial possibilities and to recognise opportunities. To ... -
(in)visibility, mediated, and sporting perceptions
(Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2023)In recent years several Hindi films have been produced that delineate the difficulties and challenges faced by Indian athletes and boxers, and highlight their sociocultural struggles in asserting their pursuit of and passion ... -
Disrupting the Colonial Gaze Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements With Young People in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023)This chapter unpacks the failures and embeddedness of much of the research on young sexualities in South Africa in an exploitative and epistemologically violent politics of knowledge. I argue that it is not only a lack of ... -
Hatching conflicts: rout reproduction, properties of water, and property ownership in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group [Commercial Publisher] Routledge [Imprint], 2023)Trout were introduced to South Africa in the late nineteenth century with colonial fanfare, but since the 1990s, post-apartheid legislation has declared trout alien and sought to reduce their numbers. Both the initial ... -
Campus repertoires: interrogating semiotic assemblages, economy, and creativity
(De Gruyter Mouton, 2023)Framed within the broader theoretical context of social semiotics, we attempt to show how university students communicate using a variety of unique means, in particular social contexts. We privilege Pennycook and Otsuji’s ... -
Effect of different irrigation systems
(Elsevier GmbH, 2023)All commercial apple fruit (Malus Domestica (Borkh) exported from semi-arid regions are grown under irrigation with drip and micro sprinkler systems being the most widely used. Few studies have directly compared ...
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