Ecocriticism and Youth Climate Heroes in Southern Africa: Centering Global South Perspectives and Activism in Isaura

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-225
Author(s):  
Katja Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Global South

scholarly journals Transnational entrepreneurship in the Global South: evidence from Southern Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (30) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne M. Rogerson ◽  
William J. Mushawemhuka
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Global South ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Global North ◽  
Migrant Entrepreneurs ◽  
Transnational Entrepreneurship ◽  
Transnational Entrepreneurs

Abstract Transnational entrepreneurship is an evolving field of research which occupies an interface between social and regional sciences. The phenomenon of transnational entrepreneurship is driven by entrepreneurs that migrate from one country to another whilst maintaining business-related linkages with their former country of origin and the adopted country. The most critical distinguishing feature of transnational entrepreneurs is bifocality or the ability to function across two different business environments. Most writings on transnational entrepreneurship concentrate on business individuals from the global South operating enterprises in the global North. Absent are empirical studies of the nature and behaviour of transnational migrant entrepreneurs who operate across or between emerging or developing economies. This South-South gap in international research concerning transnational entrepreneurship is addressed in the paper which provides an exploratory analysis of the nature of transnational entrepreneurship occurring in Southern Africa using evidence of Zimbabwean transnational entrepreneurs based in Johannesburg, South Africa.

scholarly journals Whose feminism(s)? Overseas partner organizations’ perceptions of Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-366
Author(s):  
Sheila Rao ◽  
Rebecca Tiessen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Global South ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Partner Country ◽  
International Assistance ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Partner Organization ◽  
Programme Design

Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, introduced in 2017, is an ambitious and forward-thinking policy focussed on gender equality and women’s empowerment. The emphasis on a feminist vision, however, raises questions about how feminism is defined and interpreted by Canada’s partners in the Global South. In this article, we examine the interpretations of feminism(s) and a feminist foreign policy from the perspective of NGO staff members in East and Southern Africa. The research involved interviews with 45 Global South partner country NGO staff members in three countries (Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi). We consider the partner organization reflections on Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy using a transnational feminist lens. Our findings provide insights into future considerations for Canada’s feminist foreign policy priorities, consultations, and programme design.

Eslanda Robeson

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Global South ◽  
Women's Roles ◽  
Equatorial Africa ◽  
The People ◽  
Women’S Roles ◽  
French Equatorial Africa

Eslanda Robeson’s transnational anti-imperialist activism brought her into contact with most of the women examined in this study. This chapter therefore takes a broader geographic view of black women’s decolonial politics by analyzing Robeson’s travel journals chronicling her journeys through Southern Africa in 1936 and French Equatorial Africa in 1946. Her Global South project displaces subjection to imperial rule as the imagined connection among the people of Africa, Asia and the Americas. She envisions the Global South as defined by concerted acts of resistance against imperialism, and highlights women’s roles in leading or carrying out these acts of resistance.

THE POVERTY OF THE 'MIDDLE CLASSING' OF DEVELOPMENT: KEY PROBLEMS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Southall
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Global South ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Global System ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Global Institutions

Recent decades have witnessed a 'middle classing of development' as global institutions hail the expansion of middle classes in the global South. Although the African continent has lagged behind in this regard, expanding middle classes have nonetheless been proclaimed as drivers of development and progress. However, such generalisation smoothes over the rough edges of history, for the emergence, evolution and character of middle classes have been shaped, historically as well as contemporaneously, by the timing and manner of their incorporation into the global system. In this article, it is demonstrated how the character and present prospects of middle classes in key countries in Southern Africa have been differentially shaped, not only by varying experiences under colonial rule, but also by significantly different policies pursued by the party-states of Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

scholarly journals Morena Mohlomi le Badimo: reading decolonial articulations into the intellectual property law curriculum.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ntando Sindane
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Global South ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Intellectual Community ◽  
Intellectual Property Law

The Council on Higher Education (CHE) expresses itself cogently in affirming the validity of the calls to specifically decolonise the LLB curriculum. Public discourse and the CHE report present an emerging clarion call for the academy to critically engage the question of decolonisation of the curriculum. This paper proposes Transmodernity as a methodological endeavor towards engaging African epistemologies in an effort to find alternatives in teaching various intellectual property law concepts. To tease out the fundamental decolonial question of how the dismembered can be re-membered, the paper tests the theory of Mohlomism and its applicability to the intellectual property law curriculum. Mohlomi was a mentor to the king of the kingdom of Lesotho, Morena Moshoeshoe I. He would travel around Southern Africa teaching society about his philosophy of truthfulness, justice, peace, the love of man and for sane humanism. Re-membering the Being of the proverbial “other”, reverses the effect of the prevailing legacy of epistemicide in the curriculum and may gradually lead to a transformed legal pedagogy. The paper discerns decolonisation as a project that inter alia seeks to create a pluriversal intellectual community that embosoms the epistemic traditions of the global South.

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