A5023654592- South African History and Culture
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Higher Education Practises and Engagement
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Jewish Identity and Society
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Human Rights and Development
- Religious Education and Schools
- Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
Durban University of Technology
2014-2023
University of the Witwatersrand
2014
University of Johannesburg
2014
University of Pretoria
2014
University of California, Berkeley
2014
Sarah Lawrence College
2014
Université du Québec à Montréal
2014
University of the Western Cape
2014
Stellenbosch University
2014
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2014
This article is primarily concerned with the theoretical debates and practical dilemmas of doing research on race thinking in South Africa, beyond. In a society where many micro macro interactions are mediated through racial lens, questions role state more broadly, creating political project that opens new possibilities for livelihoods move across outside race. More specifically it asks researchers to examine critically their own practices way we ask questions, how select respondents think...
Abstract After drawing attention to the crucial role of marine biodiversity, including that deep-sea ecosystems, in current scientific understanding ocean-climate nexus, this article highlights limited extent which international climate change regime has so far addressed ocean. The focus then shifts how could contribute protection biodiversity as part mitigation, adaptation and finance, taking into account human rights impacts standards, a comparison with REDD +. concludes an original...
In this article, we centre the knowledge and contributions of environmental justice social movements towards transformations for sustainability in Transdisciplinary Research. Scholar activists within research teams can help bridge networks scholars with movement to build strongly engaged relational transdisciplinary research. We draw on reflections learnings from Coastal Justice Network, a scholar activist network working solidarity small-scale fishers other blue South Africa. discuss some...
Making accessible research findings through forms of storytelling is a useful method for activist and public scholarship. This article explores these possibilities project on migration gender in the city Durban, South Africa. The collected oral histories migrant women’s experiences city, and, collaboration with artists, wove narratives into theatre performance titled Last Country. Country used an anti-essentialist politics to complicate, disrupt make messy exclusionary hegemonic that...
Europe today faces economic instability and austerity as well flows of people into, the movement jobs outside of, continent. This edited collection analyses how structural project...
Using as a starting point the research conducted by Gauteng City-Region Observatory for Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in 2011 to explore status of non-racialism South Africa, we conclude that nearly all focus groups participants and moderators find it impossible define notion non-racialism—at least, not way distinguishes from non-racism, multi-racialism or ‘good/better race relations’. We initiate discussion highlighting ubiquity term, despite there being only rare indications its actual...
In this article I examine people's sense of place and belonging in Kenneth Gardens, a subsidised rental estate Durban, South Africa. Gardens is one dwindling number state-subsidised units inherited from the apartheid regime. offer background context to itself, as well broader discussion state-delivered housing here, elsewhere. The provision state comes with many assumptions about how will benefit residents tenants. But, be examined article, there are both expected unexpected consequences...
This article examines the complexities of local community development initiatives within a particular South African context, which Kenneth Gardens, low-income housing estate in Durban. The interface between development, state politics (at and national level) networked arrangements are discussed through experiences working on Gardens Community Project. negative impact political interference projects such as this one can lead to apathy paralysis. We argue that frequent Africa narrows spaces...
Informal waste pickers in cities across the Global South divert significant amounts of tonnage from landfills. This diversion contributes towards a sustainable environment and better public health practices. workers globally derive livelihoods collecting, sorting, selling recyclable waste. In Africa, there is growing recognition valuable work that carry out. Despite this, however, these informal remain largely unrecognised, are often stigmatised, suffer lack social protection linked to their...
This article argues that international community based research projects, embedded in university engagement sites, offer a dynamic learning environment. It further learning, and service should be seen as allied pillars of tertiary education, using an project, Building Global Bridges, to demonstrate the value this perspective. Drawing on experiences brought together students faculty from United States South Africa, outlines multi-tiered benefits for members, both countries, members. concludes...
This special issue emerges from a concern with academic practice around researching and theorising race, racialism racism; particularly within the current theoretical climate in which race is, majority, accepted as social construct. In public thinking discourse, however, acceptance of biological existence races continues to dominate many societies. Racial classification also state practices South Africa such collection racial demographics though national census, through countless private...
This article explores the economic lives of 30 migrant women who recounted their oral histories as part a project on migration, gender, and inclusion in city Durban, South Africa. The include narratives from internal migrants, African migrating rural areas, well arriving other countries. These illustrate tangled complex strategies coping mechanisms deployed by to build livelihoods. kaleidoscope works both opposition alignment with contemporary structures neoliberal capitalism patriarchy....
The gendered dynamics of informal work in southern cities across the globe has been well documented. Women sector, usually already marginalised through racialised and class positionalities, face predictable challenges patriarchal society, lower pay, longer hours, more family responsibilities, less social protections, safety concerns linked to workspaces. In this article, we explore specific that women waste pickers inner city Durban, South Africa, experience. study draws on ethnographic...