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Lavery, Charne. "Antarctica and Africa: Narrating alternate futures." Polar Record 55, no. 5 (September 2019): 347–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247419000743.

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AbstractAfrica has been marginalised in the history of Antarctica, a politics of exclusion (with the exception of Apartheid South Africa) reflected unsurprisingly by a dearth of imaginative, cultural and literary engagement. But, in addition to paleontological and geophysical links, Antarctica has increasing interrelationship with Africa’s climactic future. Africa is widely predicted to be the continent worst affected by climate change, and Antarctica and its surrounding Southern Ocean are uniquely implicated as crucial mediators for changing global climate and currents, rainfall patterns, and sea level rise. This paper proposes that there are in fact several ways of imagining the far South from Africa in literary and cultural terms. One is to read against the grain for southern-directed perspectives in existing African literature and the arts, from southern coastlines looking south; another is to reexamine both familiar and new, speculative narratives of African weather – drought, flood and change – for their Antarctic entanglements. In the context of ongoing work on postcolonial Antarctica and calls to decolonise Antarctic studies – such readings can begin to bridge the Antarctica–Africa divide.

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Frank, Deon. "AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY FUTURES MARKETS IN SOUTH AFRICA." Agrekon 31, no. 4 (December 1992): 313–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03031853.1992.9524706.

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Spies, Philip. "Experience with futures research in South Africa." Futures 26, no. 9 (November 1994): 964–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0016-3287(94)90121-x.

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VAN DER VYVER, A., and J. VAN ZYL. "A FUTURES MARKET FOR MAIZE IN SOUTH AFRICA." Agrekon 28, no. 1 (February 1989): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03031853.1989.9524148.

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Tonder, S. Van, and J. H. Van Rooyen. "An explanatory model of South African yellow maize futures prices." Corporate Ownership and Control 9, no. 3 (2012): 204–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv9i3c1art5.

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This study attempts to identify the important variables that may affect yellow maize futures prices in the South African derivatives market. Data was obtained from the South African Futures Exchange, a division of the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. Weekly data on the rand-dollar exchange rates were obtained from the South African Reserve Bank (SARB). Monthly data regarding import volumes, export volumes, maize consumption and maize stocks in South Africa are available from South African Grain Information Service (SAGIS). Fifteen variables that may be used to forecast futures prices were identified from theory and similar studies. A correlation matrix of these variables with maize futures prices was determined at the 5% significance level. After applying various statistical analyses to test for autocorrelations, stationarity etc., only four variables were left with which to model the futures prices. The R2 of the remaining variables was only 12.21%, indicating a low goodness of fit. Applying the regression model to the ex-post prices clearly indicated that these variables that were identified do not adequately explain the movement in the futures prices. The primary reasons for the low accuracy of the model may be due to the use of the weather index for SA alone (a small contributor in a global market) and the linearity assumption underlying the selected dependant and independent variables may also be unrealistic. Further research is therefore needed to identify more appropriate variables with which to model yellow maize futures prices.

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Holman, Glen, Carlos Correia, Lucian Pitt, and Akios Majoni. "The corporate use of derivatives by listed non-financial firms in Africa." Corporate Ownership and Control 11, no. 1 (2013): 671–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv11i1c7art5.

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This paper presents the results of an extensive analysis of derivative use by 692 companies in 20 countries across the African continent. The results show that 29% of non-financial companies in Africa use derivatives but that derivative use is dominated by firms within South Africa. The study finds that 54% of firms in South Africa use derivatives but only 5% of non-financial firms in Africa (excluding South Africa) use derivatives for hedging purposes. The majority of derivative use is directed toward the management of currency risks and the derivative instrument of choice is OTC forwards. Swaps are used to hedge interest rate risk and minimal use is made of OTC or exchange traded options and futures

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faure, ap. "FAIR VALUE PRICING OF AGRICULTURAL FUTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA." South African Journal of Economics 74, no. 2 (June 2006): 261–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2006.00069.x.

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Cooper, Alan A. "The Many Futures for the Media in South Africa." Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies 10, no. 1-2 (January 1989): 227–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02560054.1989.9653021.

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Williams, Michelle. "Reimagining Socialist Futures in South Africa and Kerala, India." Journal of Asian and African Studies 44, no. 1 (February 2009): 97–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909608098678.

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Lewis, Simon. "“This Land South Africa”: Rewriting Time and Space in Postapartheid Poetry and Property." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 33, no. 12 (December 2001): 2095–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a33186.

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The widespread concern in recent South African poetry with landscape and the question of what place the poet occupies in that landscape arises less as a response to the turn of the millennium than to the historical end of formal apartheid, but nonetheless marks an epochal shift in sensibility. Whereas much poetry of the 1980s evoked a sense of extreme dislocation in recent time and local space (marked by references to a precarious present of forced removal and migrancy, and unspecified, unsettled futures), some significant recent work has been marked by a desire to relocate the human presence in South Africa in terms of geological time and continental space. This generalization needs to be qualified by reference to racial and political positioning within South Africa, and in this paper I distinguish between the work of committed white writers such as ex-political-prisoner Jeremy Cronin (now Secretary of the South African Communist Party) and Barry Feinberg (now curator of the Mayibuye Centre), and the work of black writers such as Don Mattera, Seitlhamo Motsapi, Lesego Rampolokeng, and Daniel P Kunene. The regrounding of the human presence in South Africa by white writers such as Cronin and Feinberg attempts a radical remapping of South African cultural identity in utopianly unraced terms, while the reclamation of continental African and local South African place names by black writers such as Mattera, Motsapi, Rampolokeng, and Kunene draws attention to the material reality of a postapartheid heterotopia in which South Africa's postmodern landscape is being divided up and sold off in ways that combine a very old-fashioned rhetoric of class and space with a new/old racial coding.

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Bilchitz, David, and Daryl Glaser. "Egalitarian Liberalism: What Are Its Possible Futures in South Africa?" Theoria 61, no. 140 (January 1, 2014): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2014.6114001.

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Charteris, Ailie, and Arnold Musadziruma. "Feedback trading in stock index futures: Evidence from South Africa." Research in International Business and Finance 42 (December 2017): 1289–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.065.

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Smit, E. vd M., and H. Nienaber. "Futures-Trading Activity and Share Price Volatility in South Africa." Investment Analysts Journal 26, no. 44 (June 1997): 51–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10293523.1997.11082367.

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Chidaushe, Wilbert Kudakwashe. "The Impediments and Evolution of Derivatives in Sub Sahara Africa." Journal of Business Strategy Finance and Management 1 and 2, no. 1 and 2 (December 28, 2019): 54–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/jbsfm.01.0102.06.

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The research follows on the Arusha declaration of 2005 and the global financial crisis of 2008 and explored the impediments and the evolution of derivatives in Sub Sahara Africa with special attention onZimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa. The research has been based on a review of literature of the seminal authors and through a conduct of questionnaire surveys in each of the three countries of Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa. The purpose of the study was to identify any disparities in the evolution of commodities and financial derivatives in the Sub-Saharan African countries. The study uncovered that registered banks in Botswana and Zimbabwe relied so much on the forward agreement to protect against financial risk. Credit default swaps (CDS), currency options and simple foreign exchange swaps also were relatively used in Botswana by most commercial banks to hedge against risk. In South Africa, a wide variety of simple and complex futures and options products are effectively applied on commodities and currencies to protect against financial losses. Rodrigues, Schwarz and Seeger (2012) noted that the initiation of formal derivative markets can accelerate growth in the economies and decrease the fluctuations of the Gross Domestic Product.

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Dubbeld, Bernard. "Granting the future? The temporality of cash transfers in the South African Countryside." Revista de Antropologia 64, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): e186648. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2021.186648.

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In the past five years, anthropologists from the global South have come to consider public cash transfer programs as an alternative to both work-centered policies and national development projects. These studies suggest that grants today go beyond the domain of traditional social policies and government bureaucracy and point to a new future in view of the scarcity of work. This future has become even closer with the pandemic of COVID-19, and with governments, non-governmental entities and the political left reaffirming the importance of a basic universal income. Considering these discussions, my article focuses on an income transfer program in South Africa after the Apartheid period, placing an ethnographic account in relation to the design of a 'progressive' policy of social grants. I present a longer history of salaried work in relation to rural African households and show how the emancipatory promises of cash transfer projects were read as a risk to local traditions and morals. In addition to this reduction in political hopes invested in transfers, I examine the temporal aspect of cash transfers, as well as the possible futures they evoke. By considering the futures that grants enable, I conclude by suggesting that it is premature to affirm that they have overcome wage work and its attendant sociality.

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Nasser, M. E., J. du Preez, and K. Herrmann. "Flight of the young flamingoes: alternative futures for young entrepreneurs in South Africa." Futures 35, no. 4 (May 2003): 393–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-3287(02)00088-5.

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Pickles, J. "Writing Futures, Rewriting Pasts. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Review Essay." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 24, no. 3 (March 1992): 417–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a240417.

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Oldfield, Sophie, and Andrew Tucker. "Persistent pasts, present struggles, imagined futures: Gender geographies in South Africa after apartheid." Gender, Place & Culture 26, no. 7-9 (July 2, 2019): 1243–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2019.1632273.

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Akpome, Aghogho. "Imagining Africa’s futures in two Caine Prize-winning stories: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s “Poison” and NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Hitting Budapest”." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 1 (July 5, 2018): 96–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418777840.

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Since its launch in 1999, the annual Caine Prize for African short stories has assumed a dominant position on the continent’s literary landscape. It has been hailed for the exposure it provides for its winners who are mostly budding writers. Expectedly, it has also attracted stinging criticism, especially for what is perceived to be its legitimization of stereotypical narratives about Africa. In this article, I examine how the two winning entries of 2008 and 2011 represent contemporary African realities and in so doing reinforce the growing significance of the prize and the short story genre to modern African literary expression. I argue that, taken together, Henrietta Rose-Innes’ “Poison” (2007) and NoViolet Bulawayo’s “Hitting Budapest” (2010), both set in cities, contribute to problematic imaginings of African futures. Bulawayo does this through her representation of slum life and dystopian childhoods in Zimbabwe while Rose-Innes’s story speculates on the apocalyptic aftermath of a chemical explosion in post-apartheid South Africa. I highlight, also, how these two narratives reflect apparent relationships between the short story and the novel in contemporary African writing as well as the increasing role of the postcolonial city as a site from which unfavourable visions of postcolonial societies are generated.

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Judge, Melanie. "Queer at 25: A Critical Perspective on Queerness, Politics and Futures." Journal of Asian and African Studies 56, no. 1 (February 2021): 120–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909620946855.

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With a focus on contemporary South Africa, and through the lens of queer identity and politics, the article critiques the limitations and possibilities for queerness and its futures in post-apartheid South Africa. From the advent of constitutional democracy and its ushering in of human rights, the article analyses developments in the politics of sexuality in the context of enduring systems of violence, rooted in colonial and apartheid histories. Discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people – at the intersection with other forms of discrimination – has emerged as a focal point for political resistances in the post-apartheid period. These resistances are interrogated, including the paradoxes of rights struggles that they expose, and the contradictions between formal equality gains and present queer realities that they call attention to. With an emphasis on enduring inequalities within post-apartheid society, and on the racialisation of violence against queerness, the article explores various political formations of and for queer freedom. In navigating these dynamics of inequality and difference, the article urges a radical politics – both for relating as equals, and against the violent ends of othering.

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Grant, Richard, Pádraig Carmody, and James T. Murphy. "A green transition in South Africa? Sociotechnical experimentation in the Atlantis Special Economic Zone." Journal of Modern African Studies 58, no. 2 (June 2020): 189–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x20000208.

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AbstractSouth Africa faces interconnected challenges of developing and diversifying its economy and adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change. A green policy tilt is ascendant in the country, manifest in a cascading array of policies and special initiatives. Utilising concepts from the multi-level perspective on socio-technical transitions, we assess Africa's first designated Green Special Economic Zone (SEZ), Atlantis SEZ (ASEZ) in the Western Cape, a niche innovation aimed at transforming the Province's industrial base. This initiative is very ambitious in four respects: (1) it links green SEZ development in a deprived metropolitan area to the broader regional economy; (2) it utilises an innovative governance structure; (3) it promises localization economies and export potential; and (4) it connects SEZ niche experimentation with emergent renewable energy regimes. While elements are in place which might seed a sociotechnical transition, societal and political forces (i.e. landscape features) continue to limit its realisation, highlighting the immanent, structural realities shaping South Africa's economic futures.

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Cruz, Shermon O. "Alternative futures of global governance: scenarios and perspectives from the Global South." Foresight 17, no. 2 (April 13, 2015): 125–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/fs-05-2014-0030.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical and informative exploration of the emerging roles and rising influence of the Global South in shaping the future of global governance. Specifically, it inquires into the following questions: How is the Global South impacting the way we govern globally? What are the pushers, pulls and weights to the futures of global governance? Using Jim Dator’s alternative futures archetype, what is the future of global governance? What are the emerging issues and trends? Design/methodology/approach – It uses Sohail Inayatullah’s futures triangle to map the drivers – the pushes, pulls and weights of global governance and Jim Dator’s archetypes – continued economic growth, collapse, conserver and transformation – to imagine and construct alternative futures of global governance. Findings – The futures triangle analysis maps and reveals three diverse but causally linked Global South narratives of global governance. The pulls of the future include the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa leading the way, and emerging economies reinforcing the pluralization of global governance discourses and systems. New governance regimes create new global governance dynamics and North – South relations. Their increasing social, political and economic clout leads to new governance structures. The Global South’s rising human development index, economic growth, decreasing financial reliance, the rise of minilateralism and South – South cooperation is a push of the present. Weights are recurring financial constraints, their lack of technical capacity, existing international laws, stagnating bureaucracy, poverty, domestic issues and state centrism (among others). Four alternative global governance scenarios emerge: a harmonious world is everybody’s business – a state-centric and economic growth global governance future. Here, the dynamics of global governance remain the same as zero-sum thinking informs the rules of the game. In dangerous transitions and the rise of the rest, however, the status quo is disrupted as power shifts rapidly and detrimentally. Then, in mosaic of the old structure, the South embraces protectionism, and the old vanguards return. Finally, in all boats rise substantially, power is redistributed as emerging states gain larger, formal (and informal) leadership roles in global governance. The global world order is re-designed for the Global South. A world parliament is created and stronger regional confederation or unions emerge. Research limitations/implications – This paper extensively utilizes existing and emerging literature, official reports, blogs, interviews, books and other digital texts on global governance. The sources relevance is analyzed using the futures triangle tool and dissected to present four detailed scenarios using Dator’s alternative futures archetype. This study seeks to initially explore alternative futures of global governance from the perspective of the Global South. While some studies have approached the topic, only a few authors have addressed global governance using futures tools and methods. The goal of this research is to map and explore some alternative futures of global governance. The paper is less useful in predicting what lies ahead. Its intention is to highlight the “rise of the different” and to create a space for more meaningful conversations on global governance. Practical implications – This research could provide futurists, policy-makers, international relations scholars and global governance advocates some alternative narratives, frameworks and images of global governance. While it does not offer any specific structures and solutions, it offers a number of emerging issues and perspectives from the Global South that decision-makers and institutions might want to consider as they rethink global governance. Social implications – This paper highlights the emerging roles and perspectives of the Global South in global governance. It identifies some “trading zones” and “emerging issues” that may inspire actors to create new global governance spaces, innovate alternative narratives and design new frameworks of global governance. Originality/value – It maps and constructs some plausible scenarios of global governance that emphasize Global South perspectives while using futures tools and methods.

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Baumgardt, Laurin. "Unfinished Futures: Ethnographical Reflections on Infrastructure and Aspirations in an informal settlement in South Africa." Moment Journal 4, no. 1 (June 15, 2017): 73–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.17572/mj2017.1.7391.

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Monk, M. J., Henry Jordaan, and B. Grové. "Factors affecting the price volatility of July futures contracts for white maize in South Africa." Agrekon 49, no. 4 (December 2010): 446–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03031853.2010.526420.

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Baker, S., and G. K. Everingham. "Accounting for futures and options in terms of IASC proposals: practitioners’ views in South Africa." South African Journal of Accounting Research 14, no. 1 (January 2000): 21–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10291954.2000.11435091.

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Perry, Mia, and Deepa Pullanikkatil. "Transforming international development." Impact 2019, no. 9 (December 20, 2019): 30–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2019.9.30.

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THE SUSTAINABLE FUTURES IN AFRICA (SFA) NETWORK<br/> The Sustainable Futures in Africa (SFA) Network is an interdisciplinary collective that brings together researchers, educators, and communities of practice that acknowledge the situated and complex nature of practices and conceptions of sustainability. The Network aims to build understanding, research, and practice in socio-ecological sustainability in Africa.<br/> Specifically, the Network includes the participation of researchers (from geography and earth sciences, community and adult education, applied social arts, health sciences, and engineering); third-sector organisations (working with environmental and social sustainability, with arts and cultural practice, and with community engagement in African contexts); and community stake-holders (living and working in areas of focus). Participants currently span the Uganda, Botswana, Nigeria, Malawi, and the UK, and the reach of the network continues to expand.<br/> THE NETWORK'S AIMS ARE:<br/> To address the relationship between social, cultural, and ecological factors in sustainability in Africa through interdisciplinary research initiatives To discover opportunities in the disparities between ontologies of the global north and the global south inherent in international collaborations and global endeavours To shape and support new opportunities for impact and inquiry that address locally-articulated, socio-ecological challenges The Network’s current infrastructure includes a website (https://sustainablefuturesinafrica.com/) and social media platforms; a growing base of research, funding to support knowledge sharing and capacity strengthening (ESRC, EPSRC & SFC); and a core group of scholars, practitioners, and support staff who are providing the leadership and administration of this initiative.

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Nielsen, Charlotte Svendler, and Liesl Hartman. "Advancing our futures – Educational potential of interdisciplinary artistic projects to children ‘at risk’ in Denmark and South Africa." Policy Futures in Education 18, no. 3 (May 21, 2019): 410–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478210319846623.

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Seoul Agenda for Arts Education (2010) calls for ensuring equitable access to arts education for all, strengthening the quality of arts education and harnessing its potential to contribute to resolving social and cultural challenges. In both South Africa and Denmark, a practice–policy gap exists between what the curricula prescribe in the area of arts education and what is experienced to be happening in the everyday life at schools. This gap contributes to creating inequality in terms of access to arts education. It is therefore important to find ways that might give access to arts education to a broader range of children, and to find out how their participation might contribute to advancing their future opportunities. This paper explores how arts education policies can be enacted within schools in both Denmark and South Africa. It takes as its point of departure a project that investigates the potential of an educational practice that integrates dance with visual arts and involves multicultural groups of children, teachers and artists in two school classes in South Africa and Denmark. It focuses on what importance arts education might have, especially to those children in the two classes who are ‘at risk’, by illuminating their experiences and opportunities for learning through integration of dance and visual arts. In this study, a phenomenologically inspired concept of learning, which includes enhanced awareness, theories of multi-modal experience in the arts and Todres’ concept of ‘soulful space’ contribute to illuminate educational potential of the artistic-educational approaches that were developed in the project. Through a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, children’s experiences were elicited through reflective group dialogues involving ‘stimulated recall’ based on photographs of them engaged in different activities and drawings that they had created, which reflected their experiences.

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Li, R. J., H. B. Jaspan, V. O'Brien, H. Rabie, M. F. Cotton, and N. Nattrass. "Positive futures: a qualitative study on the needs of adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa." AIDS Care 22, no. 6 (May 13, 2010): 751–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540120903431363.

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Msila, Vuyisile. "Digitalization and Decolonizing Education: A Qualitative Study of University of South Africa (UNISA) Leadership." International Journal of Information and Education Technology 11, no. 11 (2021): 553–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijiet.2021.11.11.1564.

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The COVID-19 pandemic that shook the world in 2020 forced all educational institutions to search for new ways of teaching and learning. Furthermore, education institutions such as the University of South Africa (UNISA), like all other universities, found themselves with a huge task of promoting digitalization. As a traditional distance education institution, UNISA had to refine digitalization in a time of decolonization in the Global South. This case study examined the role of educational managers in sustaining effective digitalization. Eight UNISA managers were selected and interviewed to understand how they perceived the role of digital leaders. Furthermore, the study sought to understand why it is critical that managers should be in the forefront of digitalization. The study found that at present in Africa it is critical for digitalization to be combined with decolonization. Additionally, when digitalization and decolonization are implemented simultaneously, they become vehicles for social justice and democracy. This then means that education can be a tool for liberation and achievement where the digital divide is minimized. When implemented well, education institutions become institutions with access for success. The conclusions show that a set strategy based on a new vision for a university will harness digital leadership. The participants also mentioned strategic documents at the university; on the one hand are the Five Pillars of Change whilst on the other are the Eight Dimensions of Transformation. Furthermore, the participants claimed that their institution was on the road to success whilst building UNISA as an institution “Towards the African University that builds futures.”

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Akpome, Aghogho. "Child and youth protagonists in Habila’s Measuring Time and Dangor’s Bitter Fruit." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55, no. 2 (August 30, 2018): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i2.1783.

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Helon Habila’s Measuring Time and Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit deploy child and youth protagonists to offer nuanced perspectives on contemporary nationhood in Nigeria and South Africa respectively, displacing the adult, and mostly male viewpoints that have dominated novelistic portrayals of postcolonial nationhood for decades. These protagonists are portrayed symbolically in the context of the biological family, which can be read in allegorical and metonymic ways to represent the nation as a social unit. This article explores the portrayal of these protagonists and their families for the ways in which they may reflect national anxieties in general, and the problems of recent socio-political transition in particular. It also highlights how the breakdown of the family, as well as the different pathways undertaken by characters may represent simultaneously dystopian and auspicious futures for Nigeria and South Africa.

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van der Vyver, André. "FUTURES CONTRACTS FOR AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES—IS THE TIME RIPE FOR SOUTH AFRICA? / Termynkontrakte vir landboukommoditeite—Is die tyd ryp vir Suid-Afrika?" Agrekon 33, no. 1 (March 1994): 50–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03031853.1994.9524764.

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Dawson, H. J., and E. Fouksman. "Labour, laziness and distribution: work imaginaries among the South African unemployed." Africa 90, no. 2 (February 2020): 229–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972019001037.

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AbstractA wealth of new writing has emerged around the future of labour, focusing on thinking beyond employment in imagining the futures of ‘surplus populations’ no longer needed by labour markets. These new imaginaries include radically expanded forms of redistribution, such as unconditional cash transfers or universal basic income. But what are the views of the ‘surplus populations’ themselves? This article uses ethnographic research in an informal settlement in South Africa to understand why the unemployed or precariously employed poor are themselves often reluctant to delink labour and income. In particular, we focus on the discursive use of ‘laziness’ by urban unemployed young men. The varied (and often contradictory) ways in which these men employ the laziness discourse sheds light on the logics linking waged work and money in our informants’ social imaginaries. It illuminates the underlying contradictions and complexities of such logics, including those of gender, relational obligations, expectations of citizenship, and the inevitable tensions between aspirational hopes and economic realities. To begin thinking ‘beyond the proper job’, to use Ferguson and Li's phrase, we must unravel and understand such nuanced logics that continue to bind together hard work, deservingness and cash – even for those left out of labour markets.

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PANDY, Wayde R., and Christian M. ROGERSON. "COASTAL TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE: RISK PERCEPTIONS OF TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS IN SOUTH AFRICA’S GARDEN ROUTE." GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites 37, no. 3 (September 30, 2021): 730–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.30892/gtg.37301-703.

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Coastal tourism destinations are highly vulnerable to the ramifications of climate change. Research conducted in South Africa has identified the potential losses associated with climate change on beach or coastal environments as one of the largest concerns for the tourism industry. In addressing the challenge of climate change a critical research issue is advancing our understanding of the risk perceptions of tourism stakeholders. The aim is to investigate risk perceptions of business stakeholders towards climate change impacts in one of South Africa’s leading coastal destinations, the Garden Route District Municipality in Western Cape province. The results are analysed from 30 qualitative interviews conducted with tourism business owners and managers. Four core themes were scrutinised, namely awareness of climate change, perceptions of the potential climate change risks, the prioritisation of climate change as compared to other business risks, and greening and adaptive measures pursued by businesses. Overall, climate change is not considered as a major issue for tourism businesses in the Garden Route especially as compared to the immediate or pressing challenges relating to marketing, infrastructural deficits, government regulations and local human resource development for tourism. This conclusion raises significant concerns for the resilience of coastal tourism destinations and local economic development futures in South Africa.

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HOWELLS, MARK. "Energy futures: trends and options for the world and for South Africa, with emphasis on the generation of electricity." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 56, no. 2 (January 2001): 74–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00359190109520504.

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Spierenburg, Marja, and Shirley Brooks. "Private game farming and its social consequences in post-apartheid South Africa: contestations over wildlife, property and agrarian futures." Journal of Contemporary African Studies 32, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 151–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2014.937164.

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Bonga-Bonga, Lumengo, and Ekerete Umoetok. "The effectiveness of index futures hedging in emerging markets during the crisis period of 2008-2010: Evidence from South Africa." Applied Economics 48, no. 42 (March 2016): 3999–4018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1150948.

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Gibbs, Andrew, Rachel Jewkes, Yandisa Sikweyiya, and Samantha Willan. "Reconstructing masculinity? A qualitative evaluation of the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures interventions in urban informal settlements in South Africa." Culture, Health & Sexuality 17, no. 2 (October 22, 2014): 208–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2014.966150.

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Gibbs, Andrew, Rachel Jewkes, Nompumelelo Mbatha, Laura Washington, and Samantha Willan. "Jobs, food, taxis and journals: Complexities of implementing Stepping Stones and Creating Futures in urban informal settlements in South Africa." African Journal of AIDS Research 13, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 161–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16085906.2014.927777.

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Dlomo, Thobeka, and Christian Rogerson. "Tourism and Local Economic Development in King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality, South Africa: Stakeholder Perspectives." African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure 10(1), no. 10(1) (February 28, 2021): 145–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.46222/ajhtl.19770720-92.

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Over the past two decades a major burst of scholarship has occurred around tourism and local economic development futures in South Africa. This study addressed the question of key stakeholder perceptions of local economic development through tourism as the economic driver. In addition, it examines the challenges for enhancing the local development role of the tourism sector. Arguably, stakeholders at the coalface of tourism and local development issues, such as tourism business owners and local government officials, can offer useful insights into the everyday problems of maximizing the impact of tourism in local municipalities. The focus is on the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality (KSDM) in Eastern Cape province. The results are presented and dissected from 33 interviews conducted with private sector stakeholders as well as 20 government stakeholders. Stakeholder perceptions were investigated concerning three major themes: (1) the role and prospects for tourism and local economic development, (2) the use of municipal assets for tourism development; and, (3) the challenges facing tourism businesses for local economic development The research findings underscore several factors that explain the decline of the tourism economy of KSDM since 2006 and reduced its contribution to local economic development. Central issues surround crime and safety, infrastructural deficiencies, and shortcomings of the local government itself, including its failure to maintain critical municipal assets essential for tourism development.

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Wright, Timothy. "Melancholy freedom: Movement and stasis in Sibs Shongwe-La Mer's Necktie Youth (2015)." Journal of African Cinemas 11, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jac_00017_1.

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Abstract This article examines the 2015 art-film Necktie Youth (Sibs Shongwe-La Mer) with a view to understanding new affective, temporal and genre formations in post-transitional South Africa. A quasi-documentary portrait of ennui and depression among a circle of privileged 'born-free' youth in Johannesburg's wealthy suburbs, the film uses a coming-of-age narrative template to allegorize post-transitional South Africa. Yet this allegory is not a straightforward one of either disillusionment or progressivist maturation. Rather, it has something in common with David Scott's analysis of the 'ruined time' of post-revolution: an endless present haunted by the ghosts of futures past. I use Scott's lens to understand the floating, marooned temporalities of the film, whose deep melancholic undertow is at odds with its performance of youthful post-apartheid self-fashioning. Thus, despite its claims to inhabiting a 'new' historical phase, the film remains haunted by the ghosts of what Scott calls the 'allegory of emancipatory redemption'. I show how the film ultimately produces a sense of 'exile from history' ‐ a mode in which key historical events have already happened and in effect overwhelm the present ‐ and argue that this sensibility is key to understanding the contradictory temporalities of the present.

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Stroud, Christopher, and Quentin E. Williams. "Multilingualism as utopia." AILA Review 30 (December 31, 2017): 167–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aila.00008.str.

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The challenge of contemporary South Africa is that of building a (post)nation of postracial equity in a fragmented world of a globalized ethical, economic and ecological meltdown. In this paper, we seek to explore the idea of multilingualism as a technology in the conceptualization of alternative, competing futures. We suggest that multilingualism is understood in terms of how encounters across difference are mediated and structured linguistically offer a space for interrupting colonial relationships. Furthermore, we argue that multilingualism should be approached as a site where colonial power dynamics of languages and speakers are troubled, and where the potential for new empowering linguistic mediations of the mutualities of our common humanity with different others are worked out.

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Wise, Nicholas. "Eventful futures and triple bottom line impacts: BRICS, image regeneration and competitiveness." Journal of Place Management and Development 13, no. 1 (November 23, 2019): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpmd-10-2019-0087.

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Purpose There are many ways of viewing, interpreting and even conceptualizing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) growth. This paper considers image regeneration and how this helps enhance place competitiveness. A focus on events and the spectacle they create also challenges to think about sustainable futures. This paper aims to supplement this focus on image regeneration and competitiveness, it is important to discuss and outline triple bottom line impacts as a framework to consider going forward. Design/methodology/approach Looking at the BRICS, the growing events, tourism and leisure industries transcend private and public business practices and can help align with more contemporary sustainable development practices and regeneration agendas. Such agendas can, in turn, help enhance destination competitiveness and image. While the authors need (and should) continue to assess and address economic impacts and development, it is just as important to consider environmental impacts and social impacts on a destination and its residents when considering competitiveness. Findings This conceptual paper frames insight from the literature to reflect on and consider research directions linked to triple bottom line impacts. The paper puts emphasis on the need to consider the social and environmental impacts of events. Originality/value This paper links conceptual discussions of image regeneration and competitiveness with triple bottom line impacts to look at directions for BRICS nations. It is useful for policymakers and planners who look at the “big picture” of event hosting and argues the need for more sustainable policy and planning agendas.

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Hanrahan, Kelsey, Sarah Kunz, Milla Mineva, Kara Moskowitz, Till Mostowlansky, Cosmin Popan, and Vera Radeva Hadjiev. "Book Reviews." Transfers 9, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 116–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2019.090309.

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Seeing Women Migrants in Africa Kalpana Hiralal and Zaheera Jinnah, eds., Gender and Mobility in Africa: Borders, Bodies and Boundaries (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), xi + 259 pp., 10 illus., $119Indigenous Mobilities: Thinking Mobility from the South and beyond the Nation-State Rachel Standfield, ed., Indigenous Mobilities: Across and Beyond the Antipodes (Canberra: ANU Press), 279 pp., $50Mobile Dwellings, Standing Still: An Ethnography of Possible Mobility Hege Høyer Leivestad, Caravans: Lives on Wheels in Contemporary Europe (London: Bloomsbury Academic), 192 pp., 20 illus., $102.60Rethinking Exile in and Out of Africa Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, eds., Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018), 337 pp., $35How to Study Roads Anthropologically Dimitris Dalakoglou, The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)mobility, Space, and Cross-Border Infrastructures in the Balkans (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 203 pp., 34 illus., £19.99Invisible Cycle Histories for Brighter Mobility Futures Tiina Männistö-Funk and Timo Myllyntaus, eds., Invisible Bicycle: Parallel Histories and Different Timelines (Leiden: Brill, 2018), xii + 282 pp., $133Someone Needs to Care: Caregiving Practices beyond the Family and the State Azra Hromadzic and Monika Palmberger, eds., Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 183 pp., 15 illus., $110

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Gibbs, Andrew, Kristin Dunkle, Shibe Mhlongo, Esnat Chirwa, Abigail Hatcher, Nicola J. Christofides, and Rachel Jewkes. "Which men change in intimate partner violence prevention interventions? A trajectory analysis in Rwanda and South Africa." BMJ Global Health 5, no. 5 (May 2020): e002199. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-002199.

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IntroductionEmerging evidence suggests working with men to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration can be effective. However, it is unknown whether all men benefit equally, or whether different groups of men respond differentially to interventions.MethodsWe conducted trajectory modelling using longitudinal data from men enrolled in intervention arms of three IPV trials in South Africa and Rwanda to identify trajectories of IPV perpetration. We then use multinomial regression to describe baseline characteristics associated with group allocation.ResultsIn South Africa, the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures (SS-CF) trial had 289 men and the CHANGE trial had 803 men, and in Rwanda, Indashyikirwa had 821 men. We identified three trajectories of IPV perpetration: a low-flat (60%–67% of men), high with large reduction (19%–24%) and high with slight increase (10%–21%). Baseline factors associated men in high-start IPV trajectories, compared with low-flat trajectory, varied by study, but included higher poverty, poorer mental health, greater substance use, younger age and more childhood traumas. Attitudes supportive of IPV were consistently associated with high-start trajectories. In separate models comparing high-reducing to high-increasing trajectories, baseline factors associated with reduced IPV perpetration were depressive symptoms (relative risk ratio, RRR=3.06, p=0.01 SS-CF); living separately from their partner (RRR=2.14, p=0.01 CHANGE); recent employment (RRR=1.85, p=0.04 CHANGE) and lower acceptability of IPV (RRR=0.60, p=0.08 Indashyikirwa). Older aged men had a trend towards reducing IPV perpetration in CHANGE (p=0.06) and younger men in Indashyikirwa (p=0.07).ConclusionsThree distinct groups of men differed in their response to IPV prevention interventions. Baseline characteristics of past traumas and current poverty, mental health and gender beliefs predicted trajectory group allocation. The analysis may inform targeting of interventions towards those who have propensity to change or guide how contextual factors may alter intervention effects.Trial registration numbersNCT03022370; NCT02823288; NCT03477877.

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Winde, Frank. "Uranium pollution in South Africa: past research and future needs." Hrvatski geografski glasnik/Croatian Geographical Bulletin 77, no. 02 (February 8, 2016): 33–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21861/hgg.2015.77.02.02.

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Abegunrin, Layi. "Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC): Towards Regional Integration of Southern Africa for Liberation." A Current Bibliography on African Affairs 17, no. 4 (June 1, 1985): 363–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001132558501700405.

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Southern Africa has become a battleground between two ideologically and fundamentally opposed constellation of states, Pretoria and Lusaka constellations. The conflict between the two basically concerns the domestic racial policies and the future of South Africa. The Pretoria constellation was launched on July 22, 1980, and is led by P. W. Botha, the South Africa's Prime Minister. The Botha's axis is a designed strategy which essentially aims at using South Africa's economic power and wealth to manipulate its neighboring nine black ruled states; and to exert subtle pressure to ensure that they cohere with the white minority regime of South Africa. This ambition of the Pretoria constellation is a vital part of the total strategy of survival of the Botha government. This particularly involves the use of the economy as an instrument of maintaining ultimate political power and control based on the maintenance of the basic structures of apartheid. This has in turn motivated South Africa's opposition to the policies of economic and political liberation of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) states. The second, the Lusaka constellation and also known as the “Southern Nine” was launched on April 1, 1980. It consists of the nine Southern African States of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The declared aim of the Southern Nine is to form an alliance which would pursue an economic strategy that would reduce or eliminate their economic dependence on South Africa. To this end, the Southern Nine and the South African-occupied territory of Namibia unanimously adopted a Programme of Action aimed at stimulating inter-state trade with the ultimate objective of economic independence from South Africa.

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Múnera-Roldán, Claudia, Dirk Roux, Matthew Colloff, and Lorrae van Kerkhoff. "Beyond Calendars and Maps: Rethinking Time and Space for Effective Knowledge Governance in Protected Areas." Land 9, no. 9 (August 25, 2020): 293. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9090293.

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Protected area managers rely on relevant, credible, and legitimate knowledge. However, an increase in the rate, extent, severity, and magnitude of the impacts of drivers of change (e.g., climate change, altered land use, and demand for natural resources) is affecting the response capacity of managers and their agencies. We address temporal aspects of knowledge governance by exploring time-related characteristics of information and decision-making processes in protected areas. These areas represent artefacts where the past (e.g., geological periods and evolutionary processes), the present (e.g., biodiversity richness), and the future (e.g., protection of ecosystem services for future generations) are intimately connected and integrated. However, temporal horizons linked with spatial scales are often neglected or misinterpreted in environmental management plans and monitoring programs. In this paper, we present a framework to address multi-dimensional understandings of knowledge-based processes for managing protected areas to guide researchers, managers, and practitioners to consider temporal horizons, spatial scales, different knowledge systems, and future decisions. We propose that dealing with uncertain futures starts with understanding the knowledge governance context that shapes decision-making processes, explicitly embracing temporal dimensions of information in decision-making at different scales. We present examples from South Africa and Colombia to illustrate the concepts. This framework can help to enable a reflexive practice, identify pathways or transitions to enable actions and connect knowledge for effective conservation of protected areas.

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Henama, Unathi Sonwabile, and Portia Pearl Siyanda Sifolo. "Tourism Migration in South Africa." International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy 8, no. 1 (January 2017): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijide.2017010103.

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This article explores the tourism migration within the South African context, thereby focusing on the current dynamics, challenges and future prospects. Tourism and migration are significant towards globalisation. Almost all countries have jumped on the tourism bandwagon as a result of the positive economic benefits that include improving the balance of payments, attracting foreign exchange, and increasing state coffers through the taxation of non-residents. South Africa has also adopted tourism into the developmental policies. Although Africa's share of the global tourism market remains less than 10%, the continental bodies such as the African Union under the wing NEPAD recognises that tourism and migration as an important factor to societies. This paper adopts the content analysis to address the tourism migration, dynamics, challenges and future prospects as a critical phenomenon. Tourism has deep characteristics of a plantation economy that does not benefit the majority of the societies, particularly in South Africa. Despite being a geographical dispersed country, the tourism industry in South Africa faces numerous challenges such as the integration of Black South Africans as product owners; reported high rates of crimes, lack of integration of locals in the tourism industry, the lack of aviation competition, paucity of ports of entry, and most recently the cyber-crime and the visa regulations etc. However, South African tourism remains resilient as a major destination due to its fauna and flora and increasing market niches are developing such as adventure tourism, health tourism and volunteer tourism. South Africa plans to be one of the top 20 destinations by 2020; steps are in place to ensure that South Africa achieves this objective.

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Ba’Nikongo, Nikongo. "South Africa to the Future: Challenges of African Politics." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 25, no. 1 (1997): 11–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502443.

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Contemporary Africa has little to be proud of. Between starvation, political corruption and economic inefficiency on the one hand and political unrest, political delegitimation and increasing refugization of widespread populations on the other, it is little wonder that many are writing off Africa. Some writers have stated emphatically that Africa is “Falling Off the Map.” African problems are many; African solutions seem to be few and far between. In a world where power is being redefined, where the New World Order presents new realities of geopolitic, it is no longer sufficient for Third World nations to play one super-power off against another. Africa is lost.

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Simon, David, Henrietta Palmer, Jan Riise, Warren Smit, and Sandra Valencia. "The challenges of transdisciplinary knowledge production: from unilocal to comparative research." Environment and Urbanization 30, no. 2 (September 4, 2018): 481–500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247818787177.

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This reflective paper surveys the lessons learnt and challenges faced by the Mistra Urban Futures (MUF) research centre and its research platforms in Sweden, the UK, South Africa and Kenya in developing and deploying different forms of transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge. Considerable experience with a distinctive portfolio of such methods has been gained and reflective evaluation is now under way. While it is important to understand the local context within which each method has evolved, we seek to explain the potential for adaptation in diverse contexts so that such knowledge co-production methods can be more widely utilized. Furthermore, the current phase of MUF’s work is undertaking innovative comparative transdisciplinary co-production research across its research platforms. Since the specific local projects differ, systematic thematic comparison requires great care and methodological rigour. Transdisciplinary co-production is inherently complex, time consuming and often unpredictable in terms of outcomes, and these challenges are intensified when it is undertaken comparatively.

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